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The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough
voters to win the next election.
Second Law of Business Meetings:
If there are two possible ways to spell a person's name, you
will pick the wrong one.
Corollary:
If there is only one way to spell a name, you will spell it
wrong, anyway.
Benson, you are so free of the ravages of intelligence.
-- Time Bandits
One monk said to the other, "The fish has flopped out of the net! How
will it live?" The other said, "When you have gotten out of the net,
I'll tell you."
As I was going up Punch Card Hill,
Feeling worse and worser,
There I met a C.R.T.
And it drop't me a cursor.
C.R.T., C.R.T.,
Phosphors light on you!
If I had fifty hours a day
I'd spend them all at you.
-- Uncle Colonel's Cursory Rhymes
Give me enough medals, and I'll win any war.
-- Napoleon
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on.
It is never any use to oneself.
-- Oscar Wilde
Weinberg's Second Law:
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs,
then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
Sunday, 18 January 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
