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The idea there was that consumers would bring their broken electronic
devices, such as television sets and VCR's, to the destruction centers,
where trained personnel would whack them (the devices) with
sledgehammers. With their devices thus permanently destroyed,
consumers would then be free to go out and buy new devices, rather than
have to fritter away years of their lives trying to have the old ones
repaired at so-called "factory service centers," which in fact consist
of two men named Lester poking at the insides of broken electronic
devices with cheap cigars and going, "Lookit all them WIRES in there!"
-- Dave Barry, "'Mister Mediocre' Restaurants"
Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity.
-- Alvy Ray Smith
Calvin Coolidge looks as if he had been weaned on a pickle.
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth
Corner, Vermont.
-- Clarence Darrow
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that
Benjamin Franklin said it first.
New Hampshire law forbids you to tap your feet, nod your head, or in
any way keep time to the music in a tavern, restaurant, or cafe.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity
and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted
activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy ...
neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
Sunday, 3 May 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
