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When in panic, fear and doubt,
Drink in barrels, eat, and shout.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is
not hereditary.
-- Thomas Paine
Furbling, v.:
Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank
even when you are the only person in line.
-- Rich Hall, "Sniglets"
... And remember: if you don't like the news, go out and make some of
your own.
-- "Scoop" Nisker, KFOG radio reporter
Preposterous Words
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer, then you find
there is nothing in it.
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
-- Mark Twain
Monday, 22 December 2025 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org