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"When NASA first started sending up astronauts, they quickly discovered that ball-point pens would not work in zero gravity. To combat the problem, NASA scientists spent a decade and $12 Billion to develop a pen that writes in zero gravity, upside down, underwater, on almost any surface including glass and at temperatures ranging from below freezing to 300C. Know what the Russians used?"
"A pencil?"
"A pencil."-- Leo, Toby and Sam, and Leo (West Wing)
...as opposed to Xena's paradox, which is, "How exactly can she fight in that leather outfit, and leave all of that flesh exposed, and survive?"
Oh yeah? You wanna step out of the giant robot and say that again?
To err is human. And stupid.
Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."-- William Dement
Go not to Usenet for counsel, for it will say both no, and yes, and no, and yes....
"Life's a bitch, then you die. Then your necromancer daughter resurrects you, and life is still a bitch."
It is better to have loved and lost than to have hated and won.