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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)
Oh yeah? You wanna step out of the giant robot and say that again?
...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?"
To err is human. And stupid.
"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."-- William Dement
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?
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.
What goes around usually gets dizzy and falls over.
I know Karate, Kung Fu, and 47 other dangerous words.
Nothing true is popular, and nothing popular is true.
Old age and treachery will beat youth and skill every time. (A coffee cup)