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I found out why my car was humming. It had forgotten the words.
Help a swallow land at Capistrano.
There are two kinds of solar-heat systems: "passive" systems collect
the sunlight that hits your home, and "active" systems collect the
sunlight that hits your neighbors' homes, too.
-- Dave Barry, "Postpetroleum Guzzler"
It was the first thing that I formed a really powerful bond with.
It was some sort of mental love missile and I just lit the touch paper and
fired myself into it, at oblivious speed, and it exploded, and sparkled and it
was totally beautiful.
-- Chris Packham and the kestrel
If a President doesn't do it to his wife, he'll do it to his country.
Barach's Rule:
An alcoholic is a person who drinks more than his own physician.
Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term.
Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight.
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Friday, 31 July 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
