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Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same
thing as division.
It looks like blind screaming hedonism won out.
//GO.SYSIN DD *, DOODAH, DOODAH
Nuclear war would really set back cable.
-- Ted Turner
The Computer made me do it.
While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are
safe, for you can watch both of his.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right.
Put your hands on your hips
And pull your knees in tight.
But it's the pelvic thrust
That really drives you insa-a-a-a-a-ane!
LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!
-- Rocky Horror Picture Show
... This striving for excellence extends into people's personal lives
as well. When '80s people buy something, they buy the best one, as
determined by (1) price and (2) lack of availability. Eighties people
buy imported dental floss. They buy gourmet baking soda. If an '80s
couple goes to a restaurant where they have made a reservation three
weeks in advance, and they are informed that their table is available,
they stalk out immediately, because they know it is not an excellent
restaurant. If it were, it would have an enormous crowd of
excellence-oriented people like themselves waiting, their beepers going
off like crickets in the night. An excellent restaurant wouldn't have
a table ready immediately for anybody below the rank of Liza Minnelli.
-- Dave Barry, "In Search of Excellence"
Tuesday, 13 October 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
