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You may be recognized soon.  Hide.

"I don't think so," said Ren'e Descartes.  Just then, he vanished.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a
reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating
the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for
independence.
		-- Charles A. Beard

If one studies too zealously, one easily loses his pants.
		-- Albert Einstein

A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power
off and on.  Knight, seeing what the student was doing spoke sternly:
"You can not fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no
understanding of what is going wrong."  Knight turned the machine off
and on.  The machine worked.

The ladies men admire, I've heard,
Would shudder at a wicked word.
Their candle gives a single light;
They'd rather stay at home at night.
They do not keep awake till three,
Nor read erotic poetry.
They never sanction the impure,
Nor recognize an overture.
They shrink from powders and from paints ...
So far, I've had no complaints.
		-- Dorothy Parker

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular
error.
		-- John Kenneth Galbraith

Mencken and Nathan's Sixteenth Law of The Average American:
	Milking a cow is an operation demanding a special talent that
is possessed only by yokels, and no person born in a large city can
ever hope to acquire it.

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Sunday, 8 February 2026   Michael J. Chappell   Contact me at: mcsuper5@freeshell.org