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Any stone in your boot always migrates against the pressure gradient to
exactly the point of most pressure.
-- Milt Barber
I used to be an agnostic, but now I'm not so sure.
It appears that after his death, Albert Einstein found himself working
as the doorkeeper at the Pearly Gates. One slow day, he found that he
had time to chat with the new entrants. To the first one he asked,
"What's your IQ?" The new arrival replied, "190". They discussed
Einstein's theory of relativity for hours. When the second new arrival
came, Einstein once again inquired as to the newcomer's IQ. The answer
this time came "120". To which Einstein replied, "Tell me, how did the
Cubs do this year?" and they proceeded to talk for half an hour or so.
To the final arrival, Einstein once again posed the question, "What's
your IQ?". Upon receiving the answer "70", Einstein smiled and asked,
"Got a minute to tell me about VMS 4.0?"
Pohl's law:
Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.
It's more than magnificent -- it's mediocre.
-- Sam Goldwyn
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber
has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture,
finished, and put inside boxes.
-- Dave Barry, "The Taming of the Screw"
... A booming voice says, "Wrong, cretin!", and you notice that you
have turned into a pile of dust.
Thursday, 6 November 2025 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
