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Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like `Amadeus'? I could
have told you Mozart was a jerk for nothing.
-- Ian Shoales
The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This
means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
Every morning, I get up and look through the 'Forbes' list of the
richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.
-- Robert Orben
Test-tube babies shouldn't throw stones.
A successful [software] tool is one that was used to do something
undreamed of by its author.
-- S. C. Johnson
Proposed Additions to the PDP-11 Instruction Set:
DC Divide and Conquer
DMPK Destroy Memory Protect Key
DO Divide and Overflow
EMPC Emulate Pocket Calculator
EPI Execute Programmer Immediately
EROS Erase Read Only Storage
EXCE Execute Customer Engineer
HCF Halt and Catch Fire
IBP Insert Bug and Proceed
INSQSW Insert into queue somewhere (for FINO queues [First in never out])
PBC Print and Break Chain
PDSK Punch Disk
If I had a plantation in Georgia and a home in Hell, I'd sell the
plantation and go home.
-- Eugene P. Gallagher
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent
upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a
visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is
informing, stimulating and ennobling.
-- H. L. Mencken
Friday, 24 April 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
