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Noncombatant, n.:
	A dead Quaker.
		-- Ambrose Bierce

"You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
	And have grown most uncommonly fat;
Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door --
	Pray what is the reason of that?"

"In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
	"I kept all my limbs very supple
By the use of this ointment -- one shilling the box --
	Allow me to sell you a couple?"
		-- Lewis Carroll

Cinemuck, n.:
	The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which
covers the floors of movie theaters.
		-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"

"Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.
		-- Lewis Carroll

Some programming languages manage to absorb change but withstand
progress.

Ask not for whom the telephone bell tolls ... if thou art in the
bathtub, it tolls for thee.

Broad-mindedness, n.:
	The result of flattening high-mindedness out.

Seminars, n.:
	From "semi" and "arse", hence, any half-assed discussion.

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Wednesday, 20 May 2026   Michael J. Chappell   Contact me at: mcsuper5@freeshell.org