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"Have you lived here all your life?"
"Oh, twice that long."

McGowan's Madison Avenue Axiom:
	If an item is advertised as "under $50", you can bet it's not
$19.95.

The first rule of magic is simple.  Don't waste your time waving your
hands and hoping when a rock or a club will do.
		-- McCloctnik the Lucid

I've known him as a man, as an adolescent and as a child -- sometimes
on the same day.

Commitment, n.:
	Commitment can be illustrated by a breakfast of ham and eggs.
The chicken was involved, the pig was committed.

Age before beauty; and pearls before swine.
		-- Dorothy Parker

The District of Columbia has a law forbidding you to exert pressure on
a balloon and thereby cause a whistling sound on the streets.

Valerie: Aww, Tom, you're going maudlin on me ...
Tom:	 I reserve the right to wax maudlin as I wane eloquent ...
		-- Tom Chapin

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Thursday, 12 March 2026   Michael J. Chappell   Contact me at: mcsuper5@freeshell.org