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Someone will try to honk your nose today.
I found out why my car was humming. It had forgotten the words.
ASHes to ASHes, DOS to DOS.
In 1914, the first crossword puzzle was printed in a newspaper. The
creator received $4000 down ... and $3000 across.
Slaves are generally expected to sing as well as to work ... I did not,
when a slave, understand the deep meanings of those rude, and
apparently incoherent songs. I was myself within the circle, so that I
neither saw nor heard as those without might see and hear. They told a
tale which was then altogether beyond my feeble comprehension: they
were tones, loud, long and deep, breathing the prayer and complaint of
souls boiling over with the bitterest anguish. Every tone was a
testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from
chains.
-- Frederick Douglass
Canada Post doesn't really charge 32 cents for a stamp. It's 2 cents
for postage and 30 cents for storage.
-- Gerald Regan, Cabinet Minister, 12/31/83 Financial Post
I've enjoyed just about as much of this as I can stand.
You can tell how far we have to go, when FORTRAN is the language of
supercomputers.
-- Steven Feiner
Friday, 24 July 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
