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Workers of the world, arise! You have nothing to lose but your chairs.
We're only in it for the volume.
-- Black Sabbath
Let's talk about how to fill out your 1984 tax return. Here's an often
overlooked accounting technique that can save you thousands of
dollars: For several days before you put it in the mail, carry your
tax return around under your armpit. No IRS agent is going to want to
spend hours poring over a sweat-stained document. So even if you owe
money, you can put in for an enormous refund and the agent will
probably give it to you, just to avoid an audit. What does he care?
It's not his money.
-- Dave Barry, "Sweating Out Taxes"
James Joyce -- an essentially private man who wished his total
indifference to public notice to be universally recognized.
-- Tom Stoppard
A girl and a boy bump into each other -- surely an accident.
A girl and a boy bump and her handkerchief drops -- surely another accident.
But when a girl gives a boy a dead squid -- *____that ___had __to ____mean _________something*.
-- S. Morgenstern, "The Silent Gondoliers"
Your lucky color has faded.
The mome rath isn't born that could outgrabe me.
-- Nicol Williamson
Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're
alive.
-- John Sloan
Monday, 10 August 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
