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Expert, n.:
Someone who comes from out of town and shows slides.
Heisenberg may have slept here.
Once Law was sitting on the bench
And Mercy knelt a-weeping.
"Clear out!" he cried, "disordered wench!
Nor come before me creeping.
Upon your knees if you appear,
'Tis plain you have no standing here."
Then Justice came. His Honor cried:
"YOUR states? -- Devil seize you!"
"Amica curiae," she replied --
"Friend of the court, so please you."
"Begone!" he shouted -- "There's the door --
I never saw your face before!"
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Make it myself? But I'm a physical organic chemist!
When in panic, fear and doubt,
Drink in barrels, eat, and shout.
"The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and
blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails.
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at
night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only
love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or
know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only
one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what
wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust,
never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never
dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a
lot of things there are to learn."
-- T.H. White, "The Once and Future King"
Fortune's Fictitious Country Song Title of the Week:
"How Can I Miss You if You Won't Go Away?"
Stupid, adj.:
Losing $25 on the game and $25 on the instant replay.
Saturday, 11 July 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
