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/ ____/___ _____/ /___ ______ ___
/ /_ / __ \/ ___/ __/ / / / __ \/ _ \
/ __/ / /_/ / / / /_/ /_/ / / / / __/
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You've been leading a dog's life. Stay off the furniture.
IBM had a PL/I,
Its syntax worse than JOSS;
And everywhere this language went,
It was a total loss.
A sine curve goes off to infinity or at least the end of the blackboard.
-- Prof. Steiner
Fortune's Real-Life Courtroom Quote #3:
Q: When he went, had you gone and had she, if she wanted to and were
able, for the time being excluding all the restraints on her not to
go, gone also, would he have brought you, meaning you and she, with
him to the station?
MR. BROOKS: Objection. That question should be taken out and shot.
How many seconds are there in a year? If I tell you there are
3.155 x 10^7, you won't even try to remember it. On the other hand,
who could forget that, to within half a percent, pi seconds is a
nanocentury.
-- Tom Duff, Bell Labs
Honk if you love peace and quiet.
New Hampshire law forbids you to tap your feet, nod your head, or in
any way keep time to the music in a tavern, restaurant, or cafe.
How doth the VAX's C compiler
Improve its object code.
And even as we speak does it
Increase the system load.
How patiently it seems to run
And spit out error flags,
While users, with frustration, all
Tear their clothes to rags.
Friday, 24 April 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
