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The herd instinct among economists makes sheep look like independent
thinkers.
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us
to pay income taxes, too?
-- Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is
becoming an endangered synthetic.
-- Lily Tomlin
A hypothetical paradox:
What would happen in a battle between an Enterprise security
team, who always get killed soon after appearing, and a squad of
Imperial Stormtroopers, who can't hit the broad side of a planet?
-- Tom Galloway
One difference between a man and a machine is that a machine is quiet
when well oiled.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's
character, give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln
It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.
To the systems programmer, users and applications serve only to provide
a test load.
Sunday, 30 August 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
