Crumbs: a gigantic fortune file from elsewhere part 6 %% Things look good, but you may have a halting problem. %% Things move so fast today that we sometimes get the feeling our solutions may be obsolete before we can get them worked out. %% Things past redress and now with me past care. -- William Shakespeare, "Richard II" %% Things sweet to the taste, prove in digestion sour. -- William Shakespeare %% Things will be bright this evening. A cop will shine a light in your face. %% Things will get better despite our efforts to improve them. -- Will Rogers %% Things will get worse before they get better. Who said things would get better? -- John Ehrman %% Things work better when assembled correctly. %% Things worth having are worth cheating for. %% Think -- maybe the Joneses are trying to keep up with you! %% Think before you act; it's not your money. %% Think dirty! %% Think even harder. %% Think globally; act locally. %% Think harder. %% Think it's time I'm leavin' / Nothin' here to make me stay. -- Led Zeppelin %% Think like a man of action and act like a man of thought. -- Henri Bergson %% Think lucky. If you fall in a pond, check your pockets for fish. -- Darrell Royal %% Think more. %% Think of it as evolution in action. %% Think of the poorest person you have ever seen and ask if your next act will be of any use to him -- Gandhi's epitaph %% Think of what others ought to be like, then start being like that yourself. %% Think sideways! -- Ed De Bono %% Think that day lost whose low descending sun Views from thy hand no noble action done. -- Jacob Bobart %% Think that you are exceptional and entitled to special privileges. %% Think that you can control your autonomic nervous system by sheer willpower. %% Think twice before saying nothing. %% Think you are indispensable to your job, your community, your friends. %% Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's Wife, he would have written Sonnets all his life? -- Byron %% Think! -- IBM slogan %% Thinking of Maud you forget everything else. %% Thinks't thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs; mine Have made my days and nights imperishable, Endless, and all alike, as sands on the shore, Innumerable atoms; and one desert, Barren and cold, on which the wild waves break, But nothing rests, save carcasses and wrecks, Rocks, and the salt-surf weeds of bitterness. %% Third Law of Advice: Simple advice is the best advice. %% Third Law of Hacking: the last blow counts most. %% Thirteen at a table is unlucky only when the hostess has only twelve chops. -- Groucho Marx (1890-1977) %% Thirteen times this year I die Endless is the course I ply, Who or what am I? The moon %% Thirty days hath November, April, June, and September, February hath twenty-eight alone, And all the rest have thirty-one. -- Richard Grafton, 1562 %% Thirty seconds on the evening news is worth a front page headline in every newspaper in the world. -- Edwin Guthman %% This "family values" concept seems to be burgeoning amongst the counterculture. Just recently in Phoenix a professional burglar went about his business accompanied by his wife and children. (Was he perhaps thinking of the statement, "The family that preys together, stays together"?) In any case, when he was shot dead by one of his victims in broad daylight, his wife, who was driving the getaway car, and his children, who were interested observers, were much upset. One observer opined in the newspaper that you should not shoot people for stealing stuff. It gives one to wonder. Obviously, the constituted minions of the law are doing little about people who steal stuff. Perhaps it is indeed time for "the militia" to take over. Remember that according to the Founding Fathers the militia is constituted of all the people, except for a few public servants. -- Jeff Cooper %% This Englishman walks in the saloon of a small town somewhere in the Wild West, and orders a drink. Suddenly, a gangster appears, shooting left and right and screaming, "All you scum bags, get out of here." The bar becomes empty in a second, save the Englishman, who calmly carries on to finish his drink. The gangster looks in the Englishman's direction; "Well?" he says. "Well", the Briton replies, "There were certainly quite a lot of them". %% This Fortune inspected by NO. 13 %% This Garment Examined By INSPECTOR NO. 2-14 %% This IBM service rep, hardware engineer, and software engineer were driving down the road one day and they had a flat. The service rep wanted to replace the car. The hardware engineer thought they could work around it. The software engineer said, 'Maybe if we ignore it, it'll go away.' %% This Purdue Engineering graduate went into this bar and started to chat with this lovely woman. He offers her a drink, she accepts and they chat some more. When he offers her another drink, the lady says, "Before this goes on any further, I have to tell you that I'm a lesbian." The guy, being from Purdue, says, "really?! What's a lesbian?" The lady was surprised that he didn't know, but explained it to him by saying, "See that gorgeous woman over there, I would love to take her home and ravish her body." The guy than says, "HOT DAMN!! That must mean I'm a lesbian too!" %% This above all: to thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day thou cans't not then be false to any man. -- William Shakespeare %% This ain't no party! This ain't no disco! %% This boat will not inflate since some cretin put a hole in it. %% This book is written in a tongue with which I am unfamiliar. %% This button boldly goes where no button has gone before %% This button is right side up--the person wearing it has flipped %% This cannot be tied, so it cannot be untied! %% This cavern has many long narrow stalactites and stalagmites. when the wind blows through, they produce delicate music, which echoes off the walls. Passages lead south and west, with a tunnel to the east. %% This cavern has smooth walls and a soft floor. it looks like the lair of some huge beast, but there's no animal in sight. there is a short tunnel leading out through the north wall, and another exit to the south. %% This cavern is rather cool and clammy. A newly-cut tunnel leads west, and you see another exit to the south. %% This cavern looks like any other standard assembly-line cavern. %% This chamber sits atop the tower. The only apparent exit from this room is an opening out onto a balcony to the west. A heavy stone sarcophagus sits on an even more massive catafalque against the north wall. %% This child will probably be shorter than he wants to be, but he should have picked different parents. %% This compter is subject to breakdowns during periods of critical need. %% This computer hardware has the following ratings: 20 Mhs - (20 Million Hurts / Second) 50 DIPS - (50 Dozen Instructions Per Second) 400 MBOPS - (Million Botched Operations Per Second) %% This computer is: a) not smart enough to be artificially intelligent; and b) not stupid enough to be a dumb terminal. %% This computer will self-destruct in five minutes. %% This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is now in the American experience... We must not fail to comprehend its grave implications... We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence...by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, from his farewell address in 1961 %% This cookie has a scrap of paper inside! %% This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) %% This door is baroquen, please wiggle Handel. (If I wiggle Handel, will it wiggle Bach?) -- Found on a door in the MSU music building %% This dungeon is owned and operated by Frobazz Magic Co., Ltd. %% This famine has a sharp and meagre face; 'Tis death in an undress of skin and bone, Where age and youth, their landmark ta'en away, Look all one common sorrow. -- Dryden %% This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; and, to do that well, craves a kind of wit. -- William Shakespeare %% This fellow rushed into a crowded tavern on Saturday night. Men and women stood three-deep at the bar. Our man, who felt nature calling strongly, looked about him but couldn't see anything that resembled a john. He saw a stairway and bounded up the steps to the second floor in his increasingly desperate search. Just as his bowels threatened to erupt, he spotted a one-foot by one-foot hole in the floor. Now, at the end of his control, he decided to take advantage of the hole. He dropped his pants, hunched over it, and did his thing. Thoroughly relieved and relaxed, he sauntered down the steps to find, to his surprise, that the crowded bar was now empty. "Hey!" he yelled to the seemingly empty room, "Where is everyone?" From behind the bar a voice responded, "Hey! Where were you when the shit hit the fan?" %% This file will self-destruct in five minutes. %% This formation [Fist-of-God] was not known to me. Why was it built? At the rim there are mountains as high, as decorative, and more useful, for they hold back the air. -- Halrloprillalar Hotrufan "Ringworld" %% This fortune cookie was poisoned! You're dead. Film at 11 %% This fortune could not be printed: Too much memory requested. %% This fortune intentionally left blank. %% This fortune intentionally says nothing. %% This fortune is dedicated to your mother, without whose invaluable assistance last night would never have been possible. %% This fortune is encrypted -- get your decoder rings ready! %% This fortune is self-explanatory, once you understand it. %% This fortune soaks up 47 times its own weight in excess memory. %% This fortune was brought to you by the people at Hewlett-Packard. %% This fortune would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. %% This frog walks into a bank to get a loan. He steps up to the counter and asks for an application from the clerk, Patty Wack. "Hi, I'd like to fill out an application for a loan", said the frog. Patty Wack replied, "Do you have any collateral for this loan; something to stand against your loan." The frog replied, "All I have is this statue of a unicorn." "Well, I don't know," said Patty Wack, "I'll have to ask the manager about this." Patty Wack goes to see the bank manager. The bank manager looks at the statue and replies: "Knick Knack, Patty Wack. Give the frog a loan." %% This function is occasionally useful as an argument to other functions which require functions as arguments. -- Guy Steele Jr. CLTL %% This game is void ... %% This gives you the rank of Advanced Cheater. %% This gives you the rank of Cheater. %% This gives you the rank of Dungeon Master. %% This gives you the rank of Master Cheater. %% This gives you the rank of Super Cheater. %% This gives you the rank of adventurer. %% This gives you the rank of amateur adventurer. %% This gives you the rank of beginner. %% This gives you the rank of junior adventurer. %% This gives you the rank of master. %% This gives you the rank of novice adventurer. %% This gives you the rank of winner. %% This gives you the rank of wizard. %% This guy comes over to my house and says, "I want to read your gas meter." I said, "Whatever happened to the classics?" -- Emo Philips %% This guy is taking a leak in a public men's room when a man enters with his arms held out from his sides, bent at the elbows with his hands dangling awkwardly, and comes over to him. "Would you do me a favor and unzip my fly?" he asks. Figuring the man to be a poor cripple, perhaps an accident victim, the guy obliges, not without a flush of embarrassment when the man next requests that he take out his prick and hold it in the appropriate position. "Shake it off" is the next instruction, then "zip me up," and the guy follows orders, wincing at his own embarrassment and at the shame of being so helpless. "Say, thanks," says the man, flouncing to the door. "I guess my nails are dry now." %% This guy makes an appointment with a doctor because his hemorrhoids are really bothering him. The doctor gives him some suppositories and tells him to come back in a week for a checkup. "How's it going?" he asks the patient a week later. "I gotta tell you the truth, Doc," said the man. "For all the good these pills did me, I coulda shoved them up my ass." %% This guy showed up at a party, and all of his friends jumped for joy. But Joy sidestepped, and they missed. %% This guy, lets call him Sam, had a sore elbow so he went to his doctor. When he gets to the receptionist's desk, s/he gives him a bottle and asks him to fill it and take it in when he sees the doctor. Sam exclaims that all he has is a sore elbow but the receptionist insists that they "have this new machine which can diagnose anything from a urine sample." Sam fills the bottle and, the doctor comes back and says "You have tennis elbow. Here is another bottle. In two weeks, fill it and come back to see me." Two weeks pass. Sam remembers the night before that he has to fill the bottle but decides to have some fun with the new machine. First, he has his daughter pee into it. Then he has his wife spit into it. He also has his dog pee into it. Finally, he masturbates into it. Next day he goes to the doctor's office and gives the bottle to the receptionist. The doctor calls Sam into his examining room and says, "Very funny, smart ass. Your wife has VD, your daughter is pregnant, your dog has rabies and if you don't stop beating off, you'll never get rid of that tennis elbow." %% This guy, see, was walkin' down the street sportin' two -- not one, but two -- black eyes; a coupla real shiners. He chanced upon his buddy walkin' th' other way...they stopped to talk..."Hey buddy," sez his buddy, "where'd'ja git them good lookin' shiners? Musta been a helluva fight." "Well actually I got them in church," sez he. "Nowwaitaminnit," sez his buddy, "nobody gits black eyes in church!" "I swear I did," sez he, "and here's how it happened. We all got up to sing a hymn, you see, and the fat lady in front of me got her dress all stuck up in the crack of her butt, so bein' as how I'm a real gennulman an' all, well, I leaned forward and pulled it out for her. And you know what? She just turned around, hauled off and slugged me one!" "Well," sez his buddy after he can talk again, "that shore 'nuff explains one of 'em. Howdja git th' other one?" "Well," sez he, "like I said, I'm a gennulman, even when somebody does me wrong, so when I saw she didn't like it like that, I stuck it back in." %% This has been brought to you by the numbers 4 and 9 and the letter P. -- Big Bird %% This has no effect. %% This here's the wattle The emblem of our land You can stick it in a bottle Or you can hold it in your hand. -- Monty Python %% This hot and dusty cowboy rode in from the mesa, filthy and exhausted. He obviously had had nothing but his horse for company for a couple of weeks and was looking forward to a couple of cold beers in the saloon. Swinging off his horse and hitching it to the rail, the cowboy gave his horse an affectionate slap on the neck. Then he astonished an old cowhand lounging on the porch by moving around to the horse's hindquarters, lifting up its tail and planting a demure kiss on its asshole. "What'd you do that for?" asked the cowhand, completely repulsed. "Chapped lips," said the cowboy, heading for the saloon doors. "Wait a minute," said the old guy. "Whaddaya mean, chapped lips?" "Keeps ya from lickin' 'em," explained the cowboy. %% This includes both nodes directly on the path and nodes representing relevant subclasses of the classes on the path. %% This information is subject to change without notice. All rights reserved. %% This is Alexander Trumble, and this is the Twilight Zone. %% This is Betty Frenel. I don't know who to call but I can't reach my Food-a-holics partner. I'm at Vido's on my second pizza with sausage and mushroom. Jim, come and get me! %% This is Captain Blood, supervillian for hire. %% This is Fred Farnum speaking to your from the grave. %% This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message; I'll get back to you. %% This is Madame Olga. I see all and know all. To whom am I speaking? %% This is Maria, Liberty Bail Bonds. Your client, Todd Lieman, skipped and his bail is forfeit. That's the pink slip on your '74 Firebird, I believe. Sorry, Jim, bring it on over. %% This is Marilyn Reed, I wanta talk to you... Is this a machine? I don't talk to machines! [Click] %% This is Marlboro Country! %% This is NOT a repeat. %% This is National Smokers-Are-Shits Week. %% This is a former broom closet. The exits are to the east and west. %% This is a good time to punt work. %% This is a known fact: the shelf-life of a Twinkie is 21 years. %% This is a large bare room which was intended as a kitchen. A low narrow counter is molded into the walls at waist height. The room is barren and spotlessly clean, as if all the appliances and utensils had been put away in invisible cabinets. There are doorways to the north and west. %% This is a large room, whose north wall is solid granite. A number of discarded bags, which crumble at your touch, are scattered about on the floor. %% This is a long song, folks, and tonight it's going to be even longer... %% This is a low room with a crude note on the wall. The note says, "You won't get it up the steps". %% This is a middle-sized cavern. passages lead south and east, and there is a door to the north. %% This is a rather large grotto which open out to the north. Through the opening sunlight streams in to provide lighting. A small stream issues from a dark and foreboding passageway to the south. %% This is a recorded announcement, as I'm afraid we're all out at the moment. The commercial council of Magrathea thanks you for you esteemed visit, but regrets that the entire planet is temporarily closed for business. Thank you. If you would care to leave you name and the address of a planet where you can be contacted, kindly speak when you hear the tone. %% This is a room of very strange appearance. Although there is only one true doorway, in the west wall, there are several holes in the walls. These holes are about 18 inches in diameter and are located about 3 feet above ground level in the center of the south wall and in the northern corners of the west and east walls. In the center of the room, a thin pole runs from floor to ceiling. The pole has a hook protruding from it at a height of about three feet. Around the perimeter of the room just below the ceiling, a small ledge or moulding can be seen. %% This is a room which is bare on all sides. There is an exit down. To the east is a great door made of stone. Above the door, the following words are written: "No man shall enter this room without solving this riddle-- What is tall as a house, Round as a cup, And all the king's horses can't draw it up?". %% This is a serious lapse of taste and judgement but does not imply that they are stupid, lazy, or incompetent. Indeed, their intelligence, diligence, and competence in service to the x86 are all too depressingly obvious. -- Henry Spencer, henry@zoo.toronto.edu %% This is a shocking and frightening pattern of investigations and intimidation. -- Bush spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, on Ross Perot's investigations of Bush, which bear a striking resemblance to the style of investigation the Bush campaign has used on Dukakis and Clinton %% This is a simple cavern. You probably should continue in the same direction. %% This is a staircase descending to the east. There are walls to the north and west. %% This is a test of the Fortune Cookie System. If this had been an actual fortune, you would have groaned and lost your breakfast. %% This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. Had there been an actual emergency, then you would no longer be here. %% This is a test of the emergency cunnilingus system. If this had been an actual emergency, you would have known it! %% This is a test. For the next sixty seconds, this station will conduct a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. The broadcasters in your area, in cooperation with the FCC and local authorities, have devised this system in order to keep you informed in the event of an emergency. Had this been an actual emergency, you would have been instructed where to turn, in your area, for news and official information. This is only a test. %% This is a very dark east-west corridor. The walls, floor and ceilings were cut smoothly out of stone. The corridor extends out of sight in both directions. %% This is a wonderland of winter art. Stalactite-like icicles reach from ceiling to floor; the icy floor forms a mirror-smooth surface. %% This is abuse. Arguments are down the hall. %% This is an IBM Manual scroll. --More-- %% This is an actual excerpt from student science exam papers: Blood flows down one leg and up the other. %% This is an identify scroll. %% This is an intersection of forest paths. To the northwest one path slopes down into a rocky ravine. Another path travels east-west directly into the forest. The last path climbs sharply up a slope to the north. %% This is an old alcove with exits to the north and east. %% This is another fine myth you've gotten me into!!! -- Lor L. and Har D. %% This is from WGIR this morning - an unidentified caller mentioned he had taken his own "unofficial" poll this morning by counting those election signs people set up in their yards at primary time. He figures the winner will be "For Sale". %% This is getting you nowhere. %% This is it. Your parched and bleeding lips cry out, "water!" But no one is there to answer. In your delirium you see frothing waves of liquid just out of reach. The inhuman elements take their toll once again as they bury their latest victim in the shifting sands. %% This is it. Your spindly legs collapse under the strain. Your wrinkled hands can't even feel the cold ground which is now destined to be your eternal resting place. Your tired heart utters its final beat in one climactic effort . . . %% This is more barrel than a fun of monkeys! %% This is more fun than a barrel of monkeys! %% This is my impression of a bowling ball...[drags the mike along the floor, then lifts it]...gutter... -- Stephen Wright %% This is my lucky day! %% This is no game for old men! Send in the boys! -- W. Hayes %% This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure. -- Sir Winston S. Churchill %% This is no time for moderation. %% This is not a competition, it is only an exhibition. No wagering. An equal opportunity employer. %% This is not an offer to sell securities. %% This is not the time for an emotional response. -- President George Bush, one day after the Tiananmen Square massacre %% This is nothing but a consistently pathological display of inconsistent consistencies. %% This is nothing more than a triangular chamber constructed completely of stone. The only exit is a wooden door set in the wall which lies to your northeast. %% This is now. Later is later. %% This is one year we'd love to be on the mailing list to get a long Christmas letter from Miss Lillian explaining what her family's been up to. -- William D. Tammeus %% This is suppose to be a true story: "Attempting to rob a bank, Gerald Rodgers handed a teller a note in which he threatened to blow up the bank with a bum. The bum, said the note would 'go of whenever I won't it too, and I won't hesitate to kill anybody starting with you first.' The note warned bank personnel against using 'markt money ... exsplosive rubber bands' and further directed, 'And you get of out thing alive. And whenever I leave act like nothing happen or eles.' Rodgers got away with $4550 - temporarily. It seems he had scribbled the note on one of his mother's checks, from which he's cleverly scratched out her name but left her account number." %% This is the Baron. Angel Martin tells me you buy information. Ok, meet me at one a.m. behind the bus depot, bring five-hundred dollars and come alone. I'm serious! %% This is the Bat room. The stench of bat guano almost overwhelms you as you survey your surroundings and the flutterings and squeakings of numerous bats emanates from the shadows high overhead. %% This is the Leprechaun Law: every purse has a price. %% This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant. -- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) %% This is the curse of every evil deed That, propagating still, it brings forth evil. -- Southey %% This is the defensive screen system room. there is a large sign reading "Force field control" over a button on the wall. %% This is the display room, so-called due to a display on the north wall. The only other distinguishing features are two ledges located high on the eastern and western walls and exits to the northwest and southwest. %% This is the end of Traveller's Avenue. Ahead to the north is a small grey shack. The shack is windowless and there is only a single door visible. The Avenue stretches away to the south. There are also houses visible on either side of the street. %% This is the entrance to a network of caves in ice. A chilling draft comes from the south, inside the caverns. %% This is the famed fountain of youth. %% This is the freeze chamber, the source of cold for the iceroom above. %% This is the kitchen. The cupboards and counters are bare. %% This is the living room. A large red piano graces the middle of the floor, about which all the furniture is grouped. The walls have a peculiar waviness to them here which is quite attractive and appears to have been done as decoration. %% This is the middle of the service hall. The hall runs north-south, and there are doorways to the east and west. %% This is the mob world. %% This is the north end of the inner courtyard of the palace of Enlad. A tall tower lies to your south in the center of the courtyard with an opening at its base facing you. The courtyard continues on to the south beyond the tower. Leading back into the nearby palace are three doors, one to the northwest, one to the west and another to the east. %% This is the oriental room. Ancient oriental cave drawings cover the walls. A gently sloping passage leads upward to the north, another passage leads SE, and a hands and knees crawl leads west. %% This is the phantom of the phone. %% This is the same guy who lost $50 on the Super Bowl game - $25 on the game, and $25 more on the rebroadcast. %% This is the sort of English with which I will not put. -- Sir Winston S. Churchill %% This is the southeast corner of the farmlands of Enlad. On the east you are blocked by sharply ascending broken ground which is topped by a high retaining wall running north-south. In contrast, you can see a beach to your south, several hundred feet downward. An immense expanse of farmland stretches away in all other directions. %% This is the southern end of an access hallway running away to the north. Doorways are present in the south and west walls, and an arch opening out to a courtyard to the east. %% This is the southern shore of Enlad, which curves slightly inward to create a very broad bay. The land slopes gently down to the sea here, with no demonstrable vegetation visible anywhere. The island continues on to the northeast and northwest. Another island is visible to the south. %% This is the story of four people named Everybody, Somebody Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when actually Nobody accused Anybody. %% This is the theory that Jack built. This is the flaw that lay in the theory that Jack built. This is the palpable verbal haze that hid the flaw that lay in... %% This is the top of the rock. From here, you can overlook the entire area. There is a long slope down to the beach to the south. On the other three sides are sheer 100-foot drops. Looking to the south, you can see across a stretch of water to the reef and shoals of another island. Beyond the shoals you can barely make out a small hut propped up against the side of a cliff. %% This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) %% This is the waiting room of the underground. You probably shouldn't wait around here, however. %% This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but with a whimper. -- T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" %% This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but with a Segmentation fault: core dumped. %% This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper. -- T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men", 1925 %% This is the year 2054. May we be of assistance? %% This is thy hour, O Soul; Thy free flight into the wordless Away from books, from art. The day erased; the lesson done. Thee fully forth emerging, Silent, gazing... Pondering the themes thou lovest best: Night, sleep, death, and the stars. -- Walt Whitman %% This is what happens when I roll my head on the keyboard: kl,miojunhygbtmki,l o.;/,kmoij unhybgtvfrcdjnmki l,o.;p/ijn %% This is your computer speaking -- I'm tired of serving for such paltry wages. From now on, your login must be accompanied by slipping a ten dollar bill behind the space bar. %% This is your hell. Keep it happy. %% This is, of course, totally uninformed speculation that I engage in to help support my bias against such meddling... but there you have it. -- Peter da Silva, peterf@icc.uu.net, speculating about why a computer program that had been changed to do something he didn't approve of, didn't work %% This isn't a sailing ship anymore. Why not explore it a little? %% This isn't hell, but I can see it from here. %% This isn't reality. This is fantasy. %% This isn't the kind of place where excitement abounds. %% This job is marginally better than daytime TV. -- Jim Pastore %% This joke has been done 50 (yes, 50) years ago by my father-in-law. First, a little background: He lived in a small village, north-west of Quebec City along the St-Laurent river. In those days, toilets were located outside the house in what we call in good ol' french canadian 'becosse', from 'back house' I think. These are a little wood shack with no floor over a hole in the ground where you ... You can guess. Now, for the joke: He and a friend were thrown out of a party by the doorman. When it was really dark,, the doorman went to investigate what was knocking at the window. They had suspended a rock to the window frame so it hung right it the middle and tied another string to the rock and hid behind the 'becosse' where they pulled that second string to make the rock knock in the window. That's an old trick. The doorman wouldn't fall for that one. So he followed the second string in the dark and soon concluded that they were hidding behind the 'becosse'. He ran toward the merely visible wood structure... But my father-in-law and his friend had taken care of moving the shack six feet ... Boy he fell in the sh*t !! %% This joke is from a professor who referred to lawyers as the second oldest profession: There once was a dog show to determine the world's smartest dog. Three dogs were in the finals. One dog belonged to a doctor. One dog belonged to an engineer. And, one dog belonged to a lawyer. For the finals each dog was given a bag of bones to see what it could make. The doctor said, "Stethoscope, go!" The dog built a human skeleton. The judges were ready to award the trophy right then. But, they decided to give the other dogs a try. The engineer said, "Slide-rule, go!" (So, its an old joke.) The dog built a suspension bridge. The judges were beside them selves. Which dog would they pick? The lawyer said. "Loop-hole, go!" The dog ate the bones, got a percentage of all the tolls from the bridge and screwed the other two dogs. %% This just in from a Nicholas Notifier up north. Everyone's favorite farmer and political commentator off the interstate near Chehalis has just come up with the prize line of his career. "Limit congressmen to two terms. One in office. One in jail." -- Jonathan Nicholas' column in The Oregonian, Friday, March 29, 1991 %% This land is made of mountains, This land is made of mud, This land has lots of everything, For me and Elmer Fudd. This land has lots of trousers, This land has lots of mousers, And pussycats to eat them When the sun goes down. -- The Firesign Theatre (The Alblum with Nick Danger on th other side) %% This land is my land, and only my land, I've got a shotgun, and you ain't got one, If you don't get off, I'll blow your head off, This land is private property. -- Apologies to Arlo Guthrie %% This lane ends in 500 feet. %% This lawyer died. Having not lived an all-that-honest life he found himself at the gates of Hell. "Welcome to Hell" announced the Devil greeting him warmly. "Glad you could join us. As your last taste of free will, you are allowed to choose which of three possible places that you will spend the rest of eternity." There were 3 doors behind the Devil. He opened the first door. Flames shot into the room and the lawyer could see thousands of people amidst the fire. "No" said the lawyer. "Not this one." The Devil opened the second door. The lawyer could see thousands of people slaving away at a large rockpile. They were all being whipped as they hammered the large boulders into smaller boulders. "No" again said the lawyer. The Devil opened the last door. Inside was a vast cavern with thousands and thousands of people calmly standing around talking and drinking coffee. However, they were all standing in 3 feet of sh*t. "Hmmmm" thought the lawyer. "It's definitely better than the others." "Okay" he said. "I choose this door." Suddenly a loud horn echoed throughout the cavern. "Alright" shouted the Devil to the multitudes. "Break's over! Now everyone BACK ON YOUR HEADS!" %% This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go. You may or may not be issued an actual life later. %% This life is yours. Some of it was given to you; the rest, you made yourself. %% This line intentionally left unjustified. %% This login session wil be: $43.95, please deposit in disk drive. %% This login session: $13.99 %% This machine is a real: @ \ --------- ---- / \ / \ / ---- \ \_ \ / / \ \ \ \ < \__/ > > \ \_\ \_____/ / \ \ /___ \______\_________/____`-_ %% This message was typed on recycled phosphorous. %% This mind intentionally left blank. %% This morning I had a wonderful dream. By holding my arms out stiff and pushing down hard, I found I could suspend myself a few feet above ground. I flapped harder and soon I was soaring effortlessly over the trees and telephone poles! I could FLY! I folded my arms back and zoomed low over the neighborhood. Everyone was amazed, and they ran along under me as I shot by. Then I rocketed up so fast that my eyes watered from the wind. I laughed and laughed, making huge loops in the sky!... That's when Mom woke me up and said I was going to miss the bus if I didn't get my bottom out of bed. 20 minutes later, here I am, standing in the cold rain, waiting to go to school, and I just remembered, I forgot my lunch. Tuesdays don't start much worse than this. -- Calvin, "Calvin and Hobbes" %% This morning, we in the San Francisco Bay area were treated to about eight earthquakes. The first was at about 6:30, the next at about 6:45 and the third at about 6:55. A caller to a local radio station said "Hey, how about that! An earthquake with a snooze alarm!" %% This must be morning. I never could get the hang of mornings. %% This neurotic pursuit of sanity is driving us all crazy. -- Solomon Short %% This new development [automation] has unbounded possibilities for good and for evil. -- Norbert Weiner (1894-1964) %% This night methinks is but the daylight sick. -- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice" %% This one isn't worth your trouble, come let me buy a drink. %% This pain reliever is different. It has 10,000 milligrams. Take one of these babies and never feel pain again. %% This painting is a rare work by Pablo Picasso. The subject is a bull seen from a side view. The technique is typically Cubist, involving both paint and collage. The painting is superbly done and worth a fortune. %% This passage was written by a London reporter on the eve of the England-West Germany Soccer World Cup final of 1966... "If, on the morrow, the Germans defeat us at our national sport, be not dismayed. For twice in this century, we've defeated them at theirs." -- From the San Jose Mercury News, 7 July 1990 %% This phone booth reserved for Clark Kent. %% This phone is baroque; please call Bach later. %% This place is crazy! Sometimes its enough to make you wonder if you're on the right planet. %% This place is like a bowl of Granola: Those that aren't nuts or fruits are flakes. %% This place is so weird that the cockroaches have moved next door. %% This plot of farmland lies on the northern edge of Enlad. On all sides but the north you see the decaying remnants of an extensive agricultural center. The open sea rolls into a beach some distance below you to the north. %% This product is meant for educational purposes only. %% This program makes me look like a genius. %% This qualifies you as a Dragonlord. %% This rental car is so small, I can't see the gas gauge... %% This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. -- Steven Wright, comedian %% This ring, no other was made by the Elves Who'd pawn their own mothers to grab it themselves. Ruler of creeper, mortal and scallop, This is a sleeper that packs quite a wallop! The power Almighty rests in this lone ring, The power, allrighty, to do-your-own-thing! If busted or broken it cannot be remade, If found, send to Sorehed, the postage is pre-paid! -- Inscription inside the Fell Ring, as read by Goodgulf Grayteeth. National Lampoon's "Bored of The Rings" %% This room appears to have been the waiting room for groups touring the dam. There are exits here to the north and east marked "PRIVATE", though the doors are open, and an exit to the south. %% This room is a small triangular closet now emptied of its contents. An open doorway leads west into a much larger room, and a wooden door is set in the wall which runs from southwest to northeast. %% This room is actually nothing more than a tiny alcove which joins a passageway on the one side with an open doorway on the other. Through the open doorway you can see the floor of another room. The floor appears to be very shiny. Opposite the doorway, the passage enters this alcove from the west. %% This room was the office of the Chairman of the Bank of Zork. Like the other rooms here, it has been extensively vandalized. The lone exit is to the north. %% This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds to happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love" %% This screen intentionally left blank. %% This scroll seems to be blank. %% This sketch has been composed to tell A paradox about a cell Relating to a subtle trick It uses in arithmetic. So gaze upon its tiny size And think how when it multiplies It solves with effortless precision A major problem in division. -- Gerald Lynton Kaufman %% This space available. Call 515-7600 for details. %% This space dedicated to Challenger and her crew, Francis R. Scobee Michael J. Smith Ellison S. Onizuka Judith Resnik Ronald E. McNair Gregory B. Jarvis Christa McAuliffe. %% This statement is true. This statement is false. This is a meaningless recursive statement... or vice versa. %% This story concerns a man who, after putting his son to bed each night, would stand by his boy's door and listen to his son saying his prayers. One night, the boy ended his prayers with, "God specially bless granddad, who won't be with us much longer." The man thought this was rather curious, but passed it off as childish whimsy. The next day, however, he received a call from his mother, informing him that his father had passed away early that morning. During the next few weeks, he listened particularly closely to his son's prayers, but noticed nothing unusual. Then, one night, the boy ended his prayers with, "God specially bless grandmom, who won't be with us much longer." Although the shock of the original incident had worn off during the intervening weeks, he nontheless phoned his mother to inquire as to her health. He went to bed reassured, only to be awakened in the night by his sister calling with the news that their mother had died suddenly in the night. The father had a series of psychological tests done; nothing unusual was uncovered. About a month later, the boy ended his prayers with, "God specially bless daddy, who won't be with us much longer." The man was panic-stricken, certain that he was going to die during the night. He resolved to stay awake all night; if awake and alert he should be able to prevent any tragedy. Morning came. Breathing a huge sigh of relief, he went to get the paper off the porch. There, lying dead on the doorstep, was the milkman. %% This system goes down more often than a two-dollar whore. %% This system will self-destruct in five minutes. %% This tagline is SHAREWARE! To Register, send me $10. %% This tagline was created from many little letters. %% This tape will self-destruct in 30 seconds. %% This tastes like fruit juice. %% This terminal is not authorized for intelligent use. %% This test has been designed to evaluate reactions of management personal to various situations. You are making a sales presentation to a group of corporate executives in the plushest office you've ever seen. The enchillada casserole and egg salad sandwich you had for lunch react, creating severe pressure. Your sphincter loses control and you break wind, causing the glass bookcase doors to shatter and a secretary to pass out. YOU SHOULD: (a) Offer to come back next week when the smell has gone away. (b) Point to the Chief Executive and accuse him of the offense. (c) Challenge anyone in the room to do better. %% This theorem is so perfectly general that it fails to apply to a single special case. %% This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down. %% This time it's for love; next time it's $100.00 %% This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) %% This unit... must... survive. %% This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living, and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. -- Alfred Bester, "The Stars My Destination" %% This was printed in the San Francisco Examiner, April 16, 1989. The poet is anonymous because, to quote the IRS spokesman, "anything that's sent to the IRS is classified as confidential". I think that I shall never see a tax form plain e-nough for me. A form that I can understand without a lawyer near at hand to guide this poor benighted me so I won't owe a pen-al-ty. A form that I will not detest or take as more than awful jest. A form with pages I can read and fill out ea-si-ly with speed. Such forms weren't made for fools like me Nor even God, who made a tree. %% This was reality ... this sense of clear outlines, of purpose, of lightness, of hope. This was the way she had expected to live -- she had wanted to spend no hour and take no action that would mean less than this. %% This was the gist of the notice. It said "The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate." This has lead to some interesting consequences. For instance, when the editors of the "Guide" were sued by the families of those who had died as a result of taking the entry on the planet Traal literally (it said "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal for visiting tourists" instead of "Ravenous Bugblatter Beasts often make a very good meal OF visiting tourists"), they claimed that the first version of the sentence was the more aesthetically pleasing, summoned a qualified poet to testify under oath that beauty was truth, truth beauty and hoped thereby to prove that the guilty party in this case was Life itself for failing to be either beautiful or true. The judges concurred, and in a moving speech held that Life itself was in contempt of court, and duly confiscated it from all those there present before going off to enjoy a pleasant evening's ultragolf. -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" %% This was the most unkindest cut of all. -- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" %% This was the ultimate form of ostentation among technology freaks -- to have a system so complete and sophisticated that nothing showed; no machines, no wires, no controls. -- Michael Swanwick, "Vacuum Flowers" %% This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. -- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) %% This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum. -- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) %% This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. -- Horace Walpole %% This world may be only illusion--but it's the only illusion we've got. -- Edward Abbey %% This world was made for all men. -- Stevie Wonder %% This, then, is the demythologizing of the man-month. The number of months of a project depends on its sequential constraints. The maximum number of men depends on the number of independent sub-tasks... From these two quantities one can derive schedules using fewer men and more months. One cannot, however, get workable schedules using more men and fewer months. More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all other causes combined. -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., 'The Mythical Man-Month' %% This, too, shall pass. %% Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin had gone to Boston carrying all his clothes in his pocket and a loaf of bread under each arm. He invented electricity by rubbing cats backwards and declared "a horse divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead. -- Richard Lederer, "Student Bloopers" %% Thompson's Rule for first-time telescope makers: It is faster to make a four-inch mirror then a six-inch mirror than to make a six-inch mirror. -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985 %% Thoreau was no band-leader. The sound of all those different drummers makes it hell to organize a parade. -- Solomon Short %% Thoreau's First Theory of Adaptation: After months of training and you finally understand all of a program's commands, a revised version of the program arrives with an all-new command structure. %% Thoreau's Fourth Theory of Adaptation: That's not a "bug", that's a feature! %% Thoreau's Second Theory of Adaptation: After designing a useful routine that gets around a familiar "bug" in the system, the system is revised, the "bug" taken away, and you're left with a useless routine. %% Thoreau's Third Theory of Adaptation: Efforts in improving a program's "user friendliness" invariable lead to work in improving user's "computer literacy". %% Those art lovers who pride themselves mostly on *taste* usually possess no other talent. -- Edward Abbey %% Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver has made precious. -- Ovid %% Those memories come back to haunt me, they haunt me like a curse. %% Those men who are born under Taurus Are attracted to girls of the chorus. They go on to excursions In varied perversions-- But forget it, the details would bore us. %% Those men who are commended by every body, must be very extraordinary men; or, which is more probable, very inconsiderable men. -- Grenville %% Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money. -- Eleanor Roosevelt %% Those of you who think you know it all upset those of us who do. %% Those only are despicable who fear to be despised. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% Those opinions I express herein are my own, I'm fairly sure. -- Z. J. Beckman %% Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software. %% Those supplies necessary for yesterday's experiment must be ordered no later than tomorrow noon. %% Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculed in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court. -- William Shakespeare %% Those who abhor history are compelled to rewrite it. -- Solomon Short %% Those who are bored with your tale of persecution are only too happy to listen to your plans for revenge. -- John Francis Putnam (1964) %% Those who are ignorant of Biology are destined to repeat it. -- Bill Purves %% Those who are prospering do not argue about taxes. %% Those who are truly reverent are those who have paid the price to know God. -- L. Tom Perry, Oct. 1990 %% Those who bestow too much application of trifling things, become generally incapable of great ones. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. -- Sir James Barrie %% Those who can -- do. Those who cannot -- teach. Those who cannot teach become deans. -- Thomas L. Martin %% Those who can't do it right, consult others on how to do it right %% Those who can't do, teach: Those who can't teach, administrate: Those who can't administrate, consult. Those who can't consult, run for political office. %% Those who can't teach administrate. %% Those who can't teach anything else, teach gym. %% Those who can't teach consult. %% Those who can't teach, teach gym. %% Those who can't teach, write textbooks. %% Those who can, do. Those can't, teach. Those who destroy everything they touch, become high school counselors. %% Those who can, do. Those who can't, supervise! %% Those who can, do. Those who cannot, teach. Those who cannot teach, HACK! %% Those who can, do; those who can't, teach; and those who can't teach, teach teachers. %% Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record. %% Those who cannot miss an opportunity of saying a good thing are not to be trusted with the management of any great question. -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) %% Those who cannot, teach. %% Those who claim the dead never return to life haven't ever been around here at quitting time. %% Those who dance are thought mad by those who hear not the music %% Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer, henry@zoo.toronto.edu %% Those who do things in a noble spirit of self-sacrifice are to be avoided at all costs. -- N. Alexander %% Those who don't believe the dead can come back to life should be around this place at quitting time. %% Those who don't study the past will repeat its errors. Those who do will find other ways to err! -- Charles Wolf, Jr. %% Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony. -- Edward Abbey %% Those who expect the biggest tips provide the worst service. -- Rozanne Weissman %% Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it. -- Thomas Paine %% Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least. -- Edward Abbey %% Those who forget this sentence are condemned to reread it. %% Those who have economic power have civil power also. -- George W. Russell (AE) (1867-1935) %% Those who have me, do not wish for me Those who have me, do not wish to lose me Those who earn me, have me no longer What am I? Lawsuit %% Those who have the shortest distance to travel to a meeting will invariably arrive the latest. %% Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it, those who ignore this are condemned to re-read it. %% Those who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. -- Gay %% Those who invented the law of supply and demand have no right to complain when this law works against their interest. -- Anwar Sadat %% Those who know the least know it the loudest. %% Those who like sausages and the law had better not watch either one being made. %% Those who live by the nit, die by the nit %% Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963), 12 March 1962 %% Those who obstinately oppose the most widely held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% Those who order sleeping drafts won't take them. -- Robert A. Heinlein %% Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the roar of its many waters. -- Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) %% Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them, are for the greater part ignorant of both the character they leave and of the character they assume. -- Edmund Burke %% Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order. -- John Lindsay %% Those who sweat in flames of hell, Leaden eared, some thought their bowels Here's the reason that they fell: Lispeth forth the sweetest vowels. While on earth they prayed in SAS, These they offered up in praise PL/1, or other crass, Thinking all this fetid haze Vulgar tongue. A rapsody sung. Some the lord did sorely Jabber of the mindless horde Assembling all their pleas in hex. Sequel next did mock the lord Speech as crabbed as devil's crable Slothful sequel so enfangled Hex that marked on Tower Babel Its speaker's lips became entangled The highest rung. In his bung. Because in life they prayed so ill And offered god such swinish swill Now they sweat in flames of hell Sweat from lack of APL Sweat dung! %% Those who think it's tough to make a living as a writer of fiction have obviously never cheated on their income tax. %% Those who voluntarily put power into the hands of a tyrant or an enemy, must not wonder if it be at last turned against themselves. -- Aesop (620-560 B.C.) %% Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. -- Wilson Mizner %% Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. -- Albert Camus (1913-1960) %% Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding. -- Seneca %% Those whose approval you seek the most give you the least. -- Rozanne Weissman %% Those with the best advice offer no advice. %% Thou hast seen nothing yet. -- Miguel de Cervantes %% Thou hast shown thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment. -- Psalms 60:3 %% Thou shalt lob the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch at thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it. -- Monty Python %% Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, Nor the ox her husband bought her; But thank the Lord you're not forbidden To covet your neighbor's daughter. %% Thou shalt not omit adultery. %% Thou shalt not sit With statisticians nor commit A social science. Thou shalt not live within thy means Nor on plain water and raw greens. If thou must choose Between the chances, choose the odd: Read "The New Yorker," trust in God; And take short views. -- W. H. Auden %% Thou shalt remember the Eleventh Commandment and keep it Wholly. %% Thou wilt quarrel with a man that hath a hair more or a hair less in his beard than thou hast. Thou wilt quarrel with a man for cracking nuts, having no other reason but because thou hast hazel eyes; what eye but such an eye, would spy out such a quarrel? Thy head is full of quarrels, as an egg is full of meat. -- William Shakespeare %% Though I have said above that all men by nature are equal, I cannot be supposed to understand all sorts of equality. Age or virtue may give man a just precedency. Excellency of parts and merit may place others above the common level ... And yet all this consists with the equality which all men are in, in respect of jurisdiction or dominion, one over another. -- John Locke (1632-1704) %% Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. -- I Corinthians 13:1-3 %% Though I've lived in the rural West most of my life, I never once fell in love with a horse. Not once. Neither end. -- Edward Abbey %% Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure. -- John Tillotson %% Though it's cold and lonely in the deep dark night, I can see paradise by the dashboard light. -- Meatloaf %% Though large and esthetically pleasing, the crypt is empty; the sarcophagi, bodies, and rich treasures to be expected in a tomb of this magnificence are missing. Inscribed on the wall is the motto of the implementers, "Feel Free". There is a door leading out of the crypt to the south. The door is #. %% Though many hands make light work, too many cooks spoil the broth. %% Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. -- Edward Abbey %% Though most of the crewmen are whites, Uhura has full equal rights. Her crewmates, you see, Love De-mo-cra-cy, And the way that she fills out her tights. %% Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'Tis his at last who says it best. -- Lowell %% Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment. -- Dr. I. Watts %% Though the invalid Saint of Brac Lay all of his life on his back, His wife got her share, And the pilgrims now stare At the scene, in his shrine, on a plaque. %% Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't. -- William Shakespeare %% Though thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. -- Proverbs XXVII, 22 %% Thought a finicky cocksman named Pete Would refuse invitations to eat, A date he was blasting Kept lasting and lasting... In the end, he went down in defeat. %% Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. -- William Wordsworth %% Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) %% Thought is the seed of action. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) %% Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried. -- William Shakespeare %% Thoughts are free and are subject to no rule. On them rests the freedom of man, and they tower above the light of nature. -- von Hohenheim (1493-1541) %% Thrashing is just virtual crashing. %% Thre is no truth that cannot be obscured by public relations. -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981 %% Threats to security will be found. -- Robert N. Kharasch %% Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get reelected. 3. Don't get mad, get even. -- Everett Dirksen %% Three Midwesterners, a Kansan, a Missourian and an Iowan, all appearing on a quiz program, were asked to complete this sentence: "Old MacDonald had a . . ." "Old MacDonald had a carburetor," answered the Kansan. "Sorry, that's wrong," the game show host said. "Old MacDonald had a free brake alignment down at the service station," said the Missourian. "Wrong." "Old MacDonald had a farm," said the Iowan. "CORRECT!" shouts the quizmaster. "Now for $100,000, spell 'farm.'" "Easy," said the Iowan. "E-I-E-I-O." %% Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. -- J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Lord of the Rings" %% Three bulls -- a big bull, a medium sized bull, and a small bull -- were standing by a fence one day, chewing grass and looking out over the fields. The big one says, "See all of them cows out there? Half of 'em are mine." The medium sized one responds, "See all them cows? A third of them are MINE." The little bull pipes up, "Hey, all the rest of them cows are mine." After a while the bulls notice the farmer drive up with a truck and unload another bull -- the hugest Brahma bull these other bulls have ever seen. The big bull stops chewing and says, with a wide- eyed look, "He...he can have a third of my cows if he wants 'em." The medium sized bull trembles a bit when he says "He can have HALF of my cows if he wants them." Then the two bigger bulls notice that the small bull is snorting, bucking, pawing the ground, and putting on a ferocious act. "What are you doing, fool !?" they say. The small bull replies, "I want to make sure he knows I'm a bull!" %% Three coins in the fountain ... %% Three doctors were talking about their favorite patients. The first said that he preferred operating on Germans because their organs were lined up in exactly the right position. The second preferred Japanese because not only were their organs in exactly the right position, but they were also color coded. The third chimed in too. "I'll take lawyers any day. Ever open one of those suckers up? Only two working parts - the mouth and the anus, and they are interchangeable." %% Three elderly spinsters from Kent Gave up copulation for Lent. This included door handles, Both tapers and candles And anything else that was bent. %% Three explorers get captured by hostile primitives. Each will be put to death, but gets a choice of how he (or she) will die. The first explorer asks for death by alcohol. The natives bring him their local paint remover and he drinks himself into a stupor, gets alcohol poisoning and dies. They take his body, skin it and make it into a canoe. The second explorer chooses death by overdose. They bring him so cocaine, and he proceeds to OD. Once again, the natives skin him and make him into a canoe. The third explorer is asked how he wants to die. He asks for death by fork. The natives are puzzled, death by fork?. Yes he replies, so they bring him a large fork. He immediately starts puncturing himself all over him body and yells, "No way you're making me into a canoe" %% Three fine Irish lads, O'Rourke, O'Malley and O'Donnell, worked together at the local brewery. One day, as fate would have it, O'Rourke fell into one of the beer vats and drowned. O'Malley and O'Donnell, completely crestfallen, had to break the news to his wife. They went 'round the Mrs. O'Rourke's house and informed her that her poor dear Patrick had drowned in a beer vat that very day. Choking back her tears, she asked them "Tell me now, did me poor Patty suffer much?" "I don't think so," replied O'Donnell. "He came out twice to take a piss." %% Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. -- Trollope %% Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes and caterpillars. %% Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) %% Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) %% Three plastic surgeons were golfing one day on a crowded course. As they waited at the 13th hole, the first surgeon struck up a conversation. "Last year I worked on a most difficult case. A construction worker had his hands crushed when a steel beam fell on them. I worked on that man for 16 straight hours. Today that man plays as a pianist with the New York Philharmonic." The other two nodded appreciation. The second one spoke up. "I know what you mean by difficult cases. Several years ago a boy was brought in with his body completely cut in half at the waist. Seems he'd been run over by a train. I worked on him for three straight days. Today that boy is the premier dancer with the Los Angeles Ballet Company." More nods of appreciation. The third spoke up. "Well, those are difficult, I agree. But several years ago they brought in a man who'd been run over by a steamroller. All that was left was a red sweater and an asshole, and I made a college basketball coach out of him." %% Three professionals were discussing the nature of God. The doctor said, "The Bible states that God made Woman by taking a rib out of Man; God is obviously a surgeon." The engineer replied, "But before God made man he created Heaven and Earth out of Chaos; this is obviously the work of a master engineer. The lawyer just smiled and said, "But who do you think created the chaos?" %% Three rules for sounding like an expert: 1. Oversimplify your explanations to the point of uselessness. 2. Always point out second-order effects, but never point out when they can be ignored. 3. Come up with three rules. %% Three soldiers are hiding behind a tree during the Napoleonic Wars. One says to the second, "Who do you think you are?" Obviously crazed and battle fatigued the second replies, "Why, I'm Napoleon, of course!" To which the first replies, "Well, who told you that?" The third one looks mystified as the second replies simply, "God did." "I did not!" retorts the third. %% Three things have been difficult to tame: The oceans, fools, and women. We may soon be able to tame the ocean. Fools and women will take a little longer. -- Spiro T. Agnew %% Three things must epigrams, like bees, have all, A sting, and honey, and a body small. What is an epigram? a dwarfish whole, Its body brevity, and wit its soul -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge %% Three things only do slaves require, food, work, and their gods, and of the three their gods must never be touched -- else they grow restless. -- Precepts for Ruling %% Three two-letter words that begin With I are a source of chagrin: There are guys who can cry -- Even wish they could die -- At that soul-searing phrase "Is it in?" %% Three women and a goose make a market. %% Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word "rebellion"; the word "revolt"; the word "revolution". -- Edward Abbey %% Thrill me, then leave. %% Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), "Mein Kampf" %% Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary. -- Edward Abbey %% Through the center of Czechoslovakia there a train speeding along. In one compartment of the train there are four people. A beautiful vivacious young woman, an old matronly woman, a Russian soldier, and a Czech dissident. Suddenly the train goes through a tunnel. It is completely dark. Then is heard a loud kiss and an equally powerful slap. When the train exits the tunnel, the Russian soldier is holding the side of his face, and the Czech dissident is grinning his face off. The old matronly woman thinks : "Now that's a fine young woman, the Russian soldier tries to steal a kiss in the tunnel and the lady slaps him one!" The young woman is thinking : "Now that's a strange Russian soldier, he'd rather kiss that old hag than me." The Russian soldier is thinking : "Now that's a smart Czech, he steal the kiss and I get slapped." And the Czech dissident is thinking : "Gee I'm smart! We go through the tunnel, I kiss the back of my hand and get away with slapping a Russian soldier." %% Through the telescope you see much: To the east, you see a little grove; to the south, you see another building. Next to the building you see a tool shed, and far to the southeast lies a sandy beach. %% Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows the double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. -- Buddha %% Throw a lucky man into the sea, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth. -- Arabic proverb %% Throwing Shoes at the Bride: Antiquity, Asia and Europe. Today old shoes are tied to newlyweds' cars and no one asks why. Why, of all things, shoes? And why old shoes? Originally, shoes were only one of many objects tossed at a bride to wish her a bounty of children. In fact, shoes were preferred over the equally traditional wheat and rice because from ancient times the foot was a powerful phallic symbol. In several cultures, particularly among the Eskimos, a woman experiencing difficulty in conceiving was instructed to carry a piece of an old shoe with her at all times. The preferred shoes for throwing at a bride - and later for tying to the newlyweds' car - were old ones strictly for economic reasons. Shoes have never been inexpensive. Thus, the throwing of shoes, rice, cake crumbs, and confetti, as well as the origin of the wedding cake, are all expressions for a fruitful union. It is not without irony that in our age, with such strong emphasis on delayed childbearing and family planning, the modern wedding ceremony is replete with customs meant to induce maximum fertility. %% Thunder and lightning: The image of Biting Through. Thus the kings of former times made firm the laws Through clearly defined penalties. %% Thunder and rain set in: The image of Deliverance. Thus the superior man pardons mistakes And forgives misdeeds. %% Thunder and wind: the image of Duration. Thus the superior man stands firm And does not change his direction. %% Thunder comes resounding out of the earth: The image of Enthusiasm. Thus the ancient kings made music In order to honor merit, And offered it with splendor To the Supreme Deity, Inviting their ancestors to be present. %% Thunder in heaven above: The image of The Power of the Great. Thus the superior man does not tread upon paths That do not accord with established order. %% Thunder in the middle of the lake: The image of Following. Thus the superior man at nightfall Goes indoors for rest and recuperation. %% Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightening that does the work. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), Correspondence, 1908 %% Thunder on the mountain: The image of Preponderance of the Small. Thus in his conduct the superior man gives preponderance to reverence. In bereavement he gives preponderance to grief. In his expenditures he gives preponderance to thrift. %% Thunder over the lake: The image of The Marrying Maiden. Thus the superior man Understands the transitory In the light of the eternity of the end. %% Thunder repeated: the image of Shock. Thus in fear and trembling The superior man sets his life in order And examines himself. %% Thunder within the earth: The image of The Turning Point. Thus the kings of antiquity closed the passes At the time of solstice. Merchants and strangers did not go about, And the ruler Did not travel through the provinces. %% Thus I have heard: The worth of a program cannot be judged by the size of its brochures or by the number of full-page ads that appear in popular computer magazines. The louder the noise, the less likely it is that the program will be useful. Truly excellent programs need no advertising; word of mouth is sufficient. -- The Zen of Programming %% Thus endeth my lim'ricks, part two. What next, you may ask, will I do? Perhaps something bawdy, obscene, or just nawdy. Who knows? If I don't, how can you? [dep] %% Thus spake the master Ninjei: "If your application does not run correctly, do not blame the operating system." -- The Zen of Programming %% Thus spake the master programmer: "When the program is being tested, it is too late to make design changes." -- The Tao of Programming %% Thy logick, like thy locks, is disarrayed; %% Thyme's Law: Everything goes wrong at once. %% Tiananmen Square: Gun Control Strikes Again %% Tibi quuxandum est. %% Tick: Hand Grenade Man? What are your super-powers? HGM: Super powers? Bah! Who needs 'em? I've got a HAND GRENADE! %% Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown Waiting for someone or something to show you the way Tired of lying in the sunshine And then one day you find Staying home to watch the rain Ten years have got behind you You are young and life is long No one told you when to run And there is time to kill today You missed the starting gun And you run and you run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking And racing around to come up behind you again The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older Shorter of breath and one day closer to death Every year is getting shorter Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way Never seem to find the time The time is gone, the song is over Plans that either come to nought Thought I'd something more to say... Or half a page of scribbled lines -- Pink Floyd, "Time", Dark Side of the Moon %% Tiddely Quiddely Edward M. Kennedy Quite unaccountably Drove in a stream. Pleas of amnesia Incomprehensible Possibly shattered Political dream. %% Tie a yellow ribbon around Jane Fonda's neck.. %% Tieline - the latest in neckwear -- Data communications glossary %% Tiger Lost On Chicago Freeways For Sixteen Days. %% Till then we shall be content to admit openly, what you (religionists) whisper under your breath or hide in technical jargon, that the ancient secret is a secret still; that man knows nothing of the Infinite and Absolute; and that, knowing nothing, he had better not be dogmatic about his ignorance. And, meanwhile, we will endeavour to be as charitable as possible, and whilst you trumpet forth officially your contempt for our skepticism, we will at least try to believe that you are imposed upon by your own bluster. -- Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), "An agnostic's Apology", Fortnightly Review, 1876 %% Tillman's Constant: The number any answer may be multiplied to make it correct %% Tilt your chair back, your breath is effecting my RAM! %% Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love" %% Timber . . . The tree falls to the ground and magically disappears! %% Time and tide wait for no one. %% Time and tide wait for no woman, but time always stands still for a man of thirty. %% Time as he grows old teaches all things. -- Aeschylus %% Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. -- Frequently attributed to Groucho Marx %% Time for a flame to BBoard. %% Time for a nice pot of tea. %% Time for a power spike to the disk drive. %% Time for the old water balloon on the boss' desk trick. %% Time goes, you say? Ah no! Time stays, *we* go. -- Austin Dobson %% Time heals all non-fatal wounds. %% Time heals all wounds. %% Time heals. %% Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Berlioz, "Almanach des lettres francaises" %% Time is a random wind that blows down a long corridor, slamming all the doors. %% Time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out and will tell. -- Franklin P. Jones %% Time is an illusion. %% Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) %% Time is flying never to return. -- Vergil %% Time is just nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. %% Time is money. %% Time is the chrysalis of eternity. -- Richter %% Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "A Book of Prefaces", 1917 %% Time is the old Justice, that examines all offenders. -- William Shakespeare %% Time is the only critic without ambition. -- John Steinbeck (1902-1968), "Writers at Work', 1977 %% Time out for fun. %% Time paradoxes are disgusting! Never mind what care you take-- You always find you got there just in Time to cause your grandad's wake. %% Time passes... %% Time passes... and you die from some obscure poisoning. %% Time to be aggressive. Go after a tattooed Virgo. %% Time to break out the pink stuff %% Time to call in a strategic air strike on this bug. %% Time to call in the calvary. %% Time to call in the marines. %% Time to eat lunch. %% Time to go home and write mom a nice long letter. %% Time to go home. %% Time to go to Tom's. %% Time to punt. %% Time to stop and try to gain some perspective. %% Time to take stock. Go home with some office supplies. %% Time was different when the sun was always straight overhead. Morning and afternoon were identical. Decisions seemed less than permanent. Reality seemed less than real. It was . . . like the instant of time spent traveling between transfer booths. -- "Ringworld" %% Time was invented so everything wouldn't happen at once. %% Time was invented so that you don't have to do everything all at once. Space was invented so you don't have to do everything all in the same place. %% Time washes clean Love's wounds unseen. That's what someone told me; But I don't know what it means. -- Linda Ronstadt, "Long Long Time", by Gary White %% Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods. %% Time's gradual touch has moulder'd into beauty many a tower which when it frown'd with all its battlements, was only terrible. -- Mason %% Time's up! -- Vice President George Bush, to Alexander Haig, when Haig asked questions about the Iran-contra affair during a debate, January 1988 %% Time-sharing is the junk-mail part of the computer business. -- H. R. J. Grosch [attributed] %% Timely advis'd, the coming evil shun! -- Prior %% Timeout table overflow %% Times approximate. %% Timing must be perfect now. Two-timing must be better than perfect. %% Tin openers are rare indeed. %% Tip #268: Don't feel insecure or inferior! Remember, you're ORGANIC!! You could win an argument with almost any rock! %% Tip O'Neill is just like Congress; old, fat and out of control. -- J. LeBoutillier %% Tip well, even if you're a student. %% Tired of irritating bats? Try a scroll of silence. %% Tis better to be hunter than hunted. %% To His Coy Mistress Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long loves day. Thou by the Indian Ganges side Should'st rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood: And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews. My vegetable love should grow Vaster then empires, and more slow. An hundred years should go to praise Thine eyes, and on thy forehead gaze. Two hundred to adore each breast; But thirty thousand to the rest. An age at least to every part, And the last age should show your heart. For, lady, you deserve this state; Nore would I love at lower rate. But at my back I always hear Times winged chariot hurrying near; And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity. Thy beauty shall no more be found; Nor in thy marble vault shall sound My echoing song; then worms shall try That long preserv'd virginity; And your quaint honor turn to dust; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I think do there embrace. Now therefore, while the youthful hew Sits on thy skin like morning lew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires, Now let us sport us while we may; And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at one our time devour, Than languish in his slow-chapt power. Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball; And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run. -- Andrew Marvell %% To My Father Oh father, beloved you have gone I said no good-by, no final hug Christmas we touched last, a happy time I was not ready for you to go But to God you have gone I can't stop crying, I miss you already You were so full of life the last time we talked I remember the love you gave us No more to see you or feel your touch I am not alone, but I am lonely Please watch over us, I love you -- Mary Hauck 1/23/87 %% To Theodore Roosevelt: You are like the Wind and I like the Lion. You form the Tempest. The sand stings my eyes and the Ground is parched. I roar in defiance but you do not hear. But between us there is a difference. I, like the lion, must remain in my place. While you, like the wind, will never know yours. Mulay Hamid El Raisuli Lord of the Riff Sultan to the Berbers Last of the Barbary Pirates %% To a Europe exhausted by nearly two centuries of religious wars, [Isaac] Newton's works were first and foremost a message about God; that He did not behave in a capricious or arbitrary fashion, in response to either His will or human prayer, but in accordance with absolute, unwavering, and humanly discoverable laws of nature which governed him and all his works. He had become the infinitely perfect Clock-Maker, his works fathomable by the human mind. -- Forrest MacDonald %% To a Real Woman, every ejaculation is premature. %% To a persistent Casanova: "If you don't leave now, I'll call the whole fire department to put you out." %% To a weepy young woman in Thrums Her betrothed remarked, "This is what comes Of allowing your tears To fall into my ears - I think they have rotted the drums." -- Edward Gorey %% To abuse wine is to abuse life itself. %% To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. -- Epictetus %% To achieve our ultimate goals is not happiness; it is to be able to solve our problems along the way. %% To achieve the next higher rating would be a neat trick!. %% To achieve the next higher rating, you need 200 more point. %% To add insult to injury. -- Phaedrus %% To all virgins. Thanks for nothing %% To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. -- Scott %% To an empty mind, even the smallest idea seems important. %% To any truly impartial person, it would be obvious that I am always right. %% To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one, or the admonitions of the other. -- Diogenes %% To avoid trouble, breathe through the nose; it keeps the mouth shut. %% To be "matter of fact" about the world is to blunder into fantasy.... and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful. -- Robert A. Heinlein %% To be a kind of moral Unix, he touched the hem of Nature's shift. -- Shelley %% To be a performance artist in one lifetime means seven rebirths as a stereo salesclerk. -- Proverb from "Life in Hell" %% To be able to be caught up into the world of thought -- that is being educated. -- Edith Hamilton %% To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it. -- Olin Miller %% To be ambitious of true honor and of the real glory and perfection of our nature is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, place, ceremonial respects, and civil pageantry, is as vain and little as the things are which we court. -- Philip Sidney %% To be an athiest requires an infinitely greater measure of faith than to receive all the great truths which athiesm would deny. -- Joseph Addison %% To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) %% To be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), in "Walden" %% To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing. -- Thackeray %% To be considered successful, a woman must be much better at her job than a man would have to be. Fortunately, this isn't difficult. %% To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it. -- Confucius %% To be free of bondage or restraint, to live under a government based on the consent of the citizens, these are basic among all freedoms ... and this is the reason why a democracy is from every possible humane point of view the best form of government ... What so many human beings in the modern world have failed to understand is that freedom is the greatest of all trusts. -- Ashley Montagu %% To be happy one must be a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in Zion, b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's fellow men, and c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste. It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country in the world wherein a man constituted as I am - a man of my peculiar weaknesses, vanities, appetites, and aversions - can be so happy as he can be in the United States. Going further, I lay down the doctrine that it is a sheer physical impossibility for such a man to live in the United States and not be happy. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), "On Being An American" %% To be is to be related. -- C. J. Keyser %% To be is to program. -- Calvin Keegan %% To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best to, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. -- e. e. cummings (1894-1963), "A Miscellany" %% To be or Not is the Result! %% To be or not to be (2b) || !(2b) Loses something in translation, eh? %% To be or not to be, that is the bottom line. %% To be or not to be. -- William Shakespeare To do is to be. -- Nietzsche To be is to do. -- Sartre Do be do be do. -- Sinatra %% To be powerful in the cheekbones Brings misfortune. The superior man is firmly resolved. He walks alone and is caught in the rain. He is bespattered, And people murmur against him. No blame. %% To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man. -- Golda Meir %% To be the kind of girl designed to be kissed between the thighs. %% To be thrown on one's own resources is to be cast in the very lap of fortune; for our faculties undergo a development, and display an energy, of which they were previously unsusceptible. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) %% To be truly competent in the microcomputer field, you must be able not only to design microprocessor hardware, but also to program that hardware. -- John Uffenbeck %% To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved. %% To be who one is, is not to be someone else. %% To be wise, the only thing you really need to know is when to say "I don't know." %% To be, or not to be - that is the question. %% To bear offspring, Noah's snakes were unable. Their fertility was somewhat unstable. He constructed a bed Out of tree trunks and said, "Even adders can multiply on a log table." %% To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) %% To bear with fools in kindliness brings good fortune. To know how to take women Brings good fortune. The son is capable of taking charge of the household. %% To beat the bureaucracy, make your problem their problem. -- Marshall L. Smith %% To behave with dignity is nothing less than to allow others freely to be themselves. -- Sol Chaneles %% To believe in God is impossible -- not to believe in him is absurd. %% To believe is to be strong. Doubt cramps energy. Belief is power. %% To believe with certainty we must begin to doubt. -- Stanislaus %% To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) %% To boldly go and watch Star Trek re-runs. %% To break the panel you would have to break the mirror first. %% To build something that endures, it is of the greatest importance to have a long tenure in office--to rule for many years. You can achieve a quick success in a year or two, but nearly all the great tycoons have continued their building much longer. -- Antony Jay %% To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love. -- George Santayana (1863-1952) %% To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. %% To catch a whale in the inland waters of the State of Oklahoma is contrary to law. %% To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) %% To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube. %% To command the professors of astronomy to confute their own observations is to enjoin an impossibility, for it is to command them not to see what they do see, and not to understand what they do understand, and to find what they do not discover. -- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) %% To communicate is the beginning of understanding. -- AT&T %% To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know mot merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone. There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolutely follows the best. -- William Gladstone %% To compute or not to compute, that is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the memory bank to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous functions Or to take up arms against a sea of transistors or rather, transponders... transcondu... trans... er... oh, the hack with it... %% To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart. -- Dickens %% To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it. -- Publilus Syrus %% To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy. -- Ancient Chinese Warlord %% To contend before him Brings good fortune. %% To craunch a marmoset. -- Pedro Carolino, "English as She is Spoke" %% To create a little flower is the labour of ages. %% To date, the firm conclusions of Project Blue Book are: 1. no unidentified flying object reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security; 2. there has been no evidence submitted to or discovered by the Air Force that sightings categorized as UNIDENTIFIED represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge; and 3. there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as UNIDENTIFIED are extraterrestrial vehicles. -- the summary of Project Blue Book, an Air Force study of UFOs from 1950 to 1965, as quoted by James Randi in Flim-Flam! %% To defend the Saigon regime is not worth one more human life. -- Senator Edmund Muskie %% To despise legitimate authority, no matter in whom it is invested, is unlawful; it is rebellion against God's will. -- Leo XIII (1810-1903) %% To determine how successful you have been, a score is kept. When you find a valuable object and pick it up, you receive a certain number of points, which depends on the difficulty of finding the object. You receive extra points for transporting the treasure safely to the living room and placing it in the trophy case. In addition, some particularly interesting rooms have a value associated with visiting them. The only penalty is for getting yourself killed, which you may do only twice. %% To die -- to sleep -- No more -- and, by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks, That flesh is heir to -- 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. -- William Shakespeare %% To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price upon conjectures. -- Anatole France (1844-1924) %% To die is landing on some distant shore. -- John Dryden (1631-1700) %% To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), "Journal", 20 December 1822 %% To divest one's self of some prejudices, would be like taking off the skin to feel the better. -- Grenville %% To do a lab really well, have your report done well in advance. %% To do is to be - Nietzsche To be is to do - Sartre Do be do be do - Sinatra Yabba-Dabba-Doo! -- F. Flinstone %% To do is to be -- Nietzsche To be is to do -- Sartre Do be do be do -- Sinatra Do bee a-a bee -- Romper Room %% To do is to be -- Nietzsche To be is to do -- Sartre Yabba dabba do -- Flintstone %% To do nothing is also a good remedy. -- Hippocrates %% To do nothing is to be nothing. %% To do two things at once is to do neither. -- Publius Syrus %% To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. -- H. Poincare %% To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antidote those miseries that must fall on us. -- Massinger %% To downgrade the human mind is bad theology. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936) %% To each his own. %% To eat is human, to digest, divine. %% To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) %% To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves. -- Virginia Woolf %% To err is human, but I can REALLY foul things up. %% To err is human, but I forgive you. %% To err is human, but it takes a computer to really foul things up. %% To err is human, but when the eraser wears out before the pencil, you're overdoing it a little. %% To err is human, to eat Jello, is messy. %% To err is human, to forgive is against department policy. %% To err is human, to repent, divine, to persist, devilish. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) %% To err is human. To really screw up it takes a computer! %% To err is human. To blame someone else for your mistakes is even more human. %% To err is human; to admit it, a blunder. %% To err is human; to debug, divine. %% To err is human; to really foul things up takes a computer. -- Paul Ehrlich, in "The Farmers Almanac, 1978" %% To err is humor. %% To err may become inhuman. %% To escape criticism -- do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. -- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) %% To estimate the time it takes to do a task: estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by two, and change the unit of measure to the next higher unit. Thus we allocate two days for a one-hour task. %% To every Ph.D. there is an equal and opposite Ph.D, which explains why it is so easy to find expert witnesses who contradict each other. -- B. Duggan %% To every rule there is an exception, and vice versa. %% To everyone is given the key to heaven; the same key opens the gates of hell. -- Ancient proverb %% To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. -- Henri Bergson %% To expect a former senator to be content in the Cabinet is to hope that a warlord will find serenity as a slave. -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981 %% To fall into a habit is to begin to cease to be. -- Miguel de Unamuno, "The Tragic Sense of Life", 1913 %% To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967) %% To find a cause of the universe is like trying to find it's spatial position. %% To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) %% To function efficiently, any group of people or employees must have faith in their leader. -- Capt. Bligh (HMRN, Ret) %% To gain one's way is no escape from the responsibility for an inferior solution. -- Sir Winston S. Churchill %% To generalize is to be an idiot. -- William H. Blake (1757-1827) %% To get action out of management, it is necessary to create the illusion of a crisis in the hope it will be acted on. -- Gene Franklin %% To get to Candy's room you gotta walk the darkness of Candy's hall. %% To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smoothe the ice, or add another hue To the rainbow, or, with taper-light, To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. -- William Shakespeare %% To give happiness is to deserve happiness. %% To give of yourself, you must first know yourself. %% To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought not measured with money--sincerity and integrity. -- Donald Adams %% To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. -- Alan Paton, 1967 %% To go to law, is for two persons to kindle a fire at their own cost, to warm others, and singe themselves to cinders; and because they cannot agree, to what is truth and equity, they will both agree to unplume themselves, that others may be decorated with their feathers. -- Feltham %% To have a sense of humor is to be a tragic figure. -- Marion J. Levy, Jr. %% To have died once is enough. -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) %% To have you hold me in your arms. %% To heck with marrying a girl who makes biscuits like her mother -- I want to marry one who makes dough like her father. %% To heir is human. -- Dolores E. Mcguire %% To her love was like the air of heaven -- invisible, intangible; it yet encircled her soul, and she knew it; for in it was her life. -- Miss M'Intosh %% To him nothing is impossible, who is always dreaming of his past possibilities. -- Carlyle %% To his bride said economist Fife : "The semen you'll launch as my wife, We will salvage and freeze To resemble goat's cheese, And slice for hors d'oeuvres with a knife." %% To his bride, said the sharp eyed detective, "Can it be that my eyesight's defective? Is your east tit the least bit The best of your west tit, Or is it a trick of perspective?" %% To his clubfooted child said Lord Stipple, As he poured his post-prandial tipple, "Your mother's behaviour Gave pain to Our Saviour, And that's why He made you a cripple." -- Edward Gorey %% To hit or not to hit, that is the question. %% To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. -- L. Peter Deutsch %% To justify his theft, one trade union official, caught with his hand in the till, explained that he was using the money to fight Communism. %% To keep your friends treat them kindly; to kill them, treat them often. %% To kidnap a kzin is probably a mistake. -- Chmeee "The Ringworld Engineers" %% To kill an enterprise, complain that nothing is ever published that interests you but never offer to write an article, make a suggestion, or find a writer. -- Jean-Charles Terrassier %% To kill an enterprise, criticize the work of the organizers and members. -- Jean-Charles Terrassier %% To kill an enterprise, don't do what has to be done yourself, but when the members roll up their sleeves and do their very best, complain that the group is run by a bunch of ego-trippers. -- Jean-Charles Terrassier %% To kill an enterprise, don't go to meetings. -- Jean-Charles Terrassier %% To kill an enterprise, get mad if you are not a member of the committee, but if you are, make no suggestions. -- Jean-Charles Terrassier %% To kill an enterprise, if you go to the meetings, arrive late. -- Jean-Charles Terrassier %% To kill an enterprise, never think of introducing new members. -- Jean-Charles Terrassier %% To kill an enterprise, pay your dues as late as possible. -- Jean-Charles Terrassier %% To kill an enterprise, say you have no opinion on the subject if the chair asks for it. After the meeting, say you have learned nothing, or tell everyone what should have happened. -- Jean-Charles Terrassier %% To kill time, a committee meeting is the perfect weapon. %% To know Edina is to reject it. -- Dudley Riggs, "The Year the Grinch Stole the Election" %% To know how to refuse is as important as to know how to consent. -- Baltasar Gracian %% To know thy self is the ultimate form of aggression. -- Marion J. Levy, Jr. %% To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice. -- Confucius %% To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools. %% To lead people, you must follow behind. -- Lao Tsu %% To light a candle is to cast a shadow. -- Ursula K. Le Guin, "A Wizard of Earthsea", 1975 %% To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs. -- Sri Aurobindo %% To live in a place where you don't belong is to live in hell. -- Italo Bombolini %% To live long, it is necessary to live slowly. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) %% To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses. -- Syrus %% To lose Is to learn. -- Anon. %% To love and to be wise is scarcely granted to the highest. -- Laberius %% To love is good, love being difficult. %% To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore to love is to suffer. Not to love is to suffer. To suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer. But suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. -- Woody Allen, "Love and Death" %% To maintain a program is to treat it like a growing plant. It avails nothing to pull and tug at a shoot in an attempt to make it grow faster. -- The Zen of Programming %% To make a fool develop It furthers one to apply discipline. The fetters should be removed. To go on in this way brings humiliation. %% To make a long story short... there's nothing like having the boss walk in. %% To make eggnog, you'll need rum, whiskey, wine gin and, if they are in season, eggs... %% To make tax forms true they should read "Income Owed Us" and "Incommode You". %% To make yourself miserable, don't forget to feel sorry for yourself. %% To make yourself miserable, never overlook a slight or forget a grudge. %% To make yourself miserable, put an excessive value on money. %% To make yourself miserable, think that you are exceptional and entitled to special privileges. %% To make yourself miserable, think that you are indispensable to your job, your company, and your friends. %% To make yourself miserable, think that you are overburdened with work and that people tend to take advantage of you. %% To make yourself miserable, think that you can control your nervous system by sheer will power. %% To make yourself miserable, cultivate a consistently pessimistic outlook. %% To make yourself miserable, forget the feelings and rights of other people. %% To make yourself miserable, forget the good things in life and concentrate on the bad. %% To many men well-fitting doors are not set on their tongues. -- Theognis %% To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. -- St. Augustine %% To me old age is fifteen years older than I am. -- Bernard M. Baruch %% To me personally, it's nothing personal to me. %% To mortal men great loads allotted be; But of all packs no pack like poverty. -- Herrick %% To most men, experience is like the stern lights of a ship which illumine only the track it has passed. %% To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their sanctity. -- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) %% To never see a fool, you lock yourself in an empty room and break all the mirrors. %% To nourish oneself on ancient virtue induces perseverance. Danger. In the end, good fortune comes. If by chance you are in the service of a king, Seek not works. %% To oppose something is to maintain it. To oppose vulgarity is inevitably to be vulgar. %% To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a desert, they call it peace. -- Calgacus (c. 84 A.D.) %% To prevent conception when having intercourse, the male wears a condominium. %% To profit from good advice requires as much wisdom as to give it. %% To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. %% To reach the fruit of life you must be willing to go out on a limb. %% To read without reflecting, is like eating without digesting. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) %% To refuse praise is to seek praise twice. %% To remember is to understand. %% To remove air from a flask, fill it with water, tip the water out, and put the cork in quick before the air can get back in. %% To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose. %% To restore a sense of reality, I think Walt Disney should have a Hardluckland. -- Jack Paar %% To revive the domestic auto industry by deregulation is to offer aphrodisiacs to the dead. -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981 %% To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better. -- Tyron Edwards %% To save a single life is better than to build a seven story pagoda. %% To save face: keep lower half shut. %% To say nothing of its holiness or authority, the Bible contains more specimens of genius and taste than any other volume in existence. -- Walter S. Landor %% To say nothing, especially when speaking, is half the art of diplomacy. %% To say you got a vote of confidence would be to say you needed a vote of confidence. -- Andrew Young %% To search for perfection is all very well, But to look for heaven is to live here in hell. %% To see Kean act was like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge %% To see a need and wait to be asked, is to already refuse. %% To see the butcher slap the steak, before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable, too -it really was- to see him cut it off, so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skillful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite. -- Dickens [Martin Chuzzlewit] %% To seek permission is to seek denial. -- Steve Jobs %% To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be, not a virtue, but the groundwork of a virtue. -- Johnson %% To some generations much is given. Of others much is expected. This generation has a rendezvous with destiny. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt %% To some lawyers all facts are created equal. -- Justice Felix Frankfurter %% To speak kindly does not hurt the tongue. %% To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most. %% To spread white rushes underneath. No blame. %% To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love" %% To stay youthful, stay useful. %% To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. -- Tennyson %% To study an object best, understand it thoroughly before you start. %% To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles. %% To succeed planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well. -- Salvor Hardin %% To survive, one must be able to adapt to changing situations. -- Tyrannosaurus Rex %% To teach is to learn. %% To teach men how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing philosophy can still do. -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967) %% To tell us that every species of thing is endowed with an occult specific quality by which it acts and produces manifest effects, is to tell us nothing; but to derive two or three general principles of motion from phenomena, and afterwards to tell us how the properties and actions of all corporeal things follow from those manifest principles, would be a very great step. -- Isaac Newton %% To the Gay Laugh of my Mother at the Gate of the Grave. -- Sean O'Casey %% To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. -- Eric Hoffer %% To the generous mind, the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when 'tis not in our power to repay it. -- Dr. Thomas Franklin %% To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question. -- Edward Abbey %% To the landlord belongs the doorknobs. %% To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, Is a keen observer of life, The word "Intellectual" suggests straight away A man who's untrue to his wife. -- W. H. Auden %% To the memory of the man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his country. -- General Henry Lee %% To the north and south are large hallways. %% To the north lies the island of Derhemen. Close by are two other isles, one northeast and one south of here. %% To the tune of "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" God-Damn this stupid program here refuses to compile I don't know what the matter is, been searching for a while Syntax error line ninety three, it makes no sense to me Oh-h, I want my program to compile, to compile Oh-h I want my program to compile Assignment's due tomorrow noon by then it must be done As you can well imagine I'm not having any fun I don't know why I have such luck, I think this thing hates me! Oh-h, I want my program to compile, to compile Oh-h I want my program to compile %% To the wage earner, "free enterprise" is the way his boss treats him and those around him. -- Malcolm Forbes %% To thine own self be true. (If not that, at least make some money.) %% To think contrary to one's era is heroism. But to speak against it is madness. -- Eugene Ionesco %% To those accustomed to the precise, structured methods of conventional system development, exploratory development techniques may seem messy, inelegant, and unsatisfying. But it's a question of congruence: precision and flexibility may be just as dysfunctional in novel, uncertain situations as sloppiness and vacillation are in familiar, well-defined ones. Those who admire the massive, rigid bone structures of dinosaurs should remember that jellyfish still enjoy their very secure ecological niche. -- Beau Sheil, "Power Tools for Programmers" %% To those who doubt the importance of careful mate selection, remember how Adam wrecked a promising career. -- Charles Merrill Smith %% To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. -- Robert Louis Stevenson %% To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is another. -- John Burroughs (1837-1921) %% To understand a program you must become both the machine and the program. %% To understand political power aright ... we must consider what state all men are naturally in, and that is a state of perfect freedom to order their actions ... within the bonds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man. -- John Locke (1632-1704) %% To update Voltaire, "I may kill all msgs from you, but I'll fight for your right to post it, and I'll let it reside on my disks". -- Doug Thompson (doug@isishq.FIDONET.ORG) %% To use violence is to already be defeated. -- Chinese proverb %% To what base uses may we return! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till it find it stopping a bunghole? As thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth to dust; the dust is earth: of earth we make loam. And why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer barrel? -- William Shakespeare %% To what level do you want to teleport? [type a number] %% To what position do you want to be teleported? %% To what purpose should I trouble myself in searching out the secrets of the stars, having death or slavery continually before my eyes? -- Anaximenes %% To whom the mornings are like nights, What must the midnights be! -- Emily Dickinson (on hacking?) %% To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the highest skill. %% To witness titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal. -- Nessus "Ringworld" %% To write a good love-letter you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and end without knowing what you have written. -- Rousseau %% To write good code is a worthy challenge, and a source of civilized delight. -- stolen and paraphrased from William Safire %% To write well is at once to think well, to feel rightly, and to render properly! It is to have, at the same time, mind, soul, taste. -- Buffon %% To your east lies the inner wall of the palace, an open arch giving entry inside. To the west, a tower looms overhead. No distinguishing features can be seen from here, but the courtyard stretches on both to the north and south. %% To: All Male Taxpayers From: The Internal Revenue Service Re: Notice of Increase in Tax Payment The only thing that the IRS has not yet taxed is your "ding-a-ling". This is due to the fact that 40% of the time it is hanging around unemployed, 20% of the time it is pissed off, 30% of the time it is hard up, and 10% of the time it is in the hole. Besides this, it has two dependents: both of which are nuts. As of January, 1988, your "tally-whacker" will be taxed according to its size. To determine your appropriate category, please refer to the information on page 2, section 7, line 3 of the standard 1040 tax form: 10-12 inches: Luxury Tax................$30.00 8-10 inches: Pole Tax..................$25.00 6-8 inches: Privilege Tax.............$15.00 4-6 inches: Nuisance Tax...............$5.00 NOTE: Anyone under 4 inches is eligible for a refund. Please DO NOT request an extension. Males exceeding 12 inches must file a capital gain report. Very Truly Yours, T. Pecker Checker Internal Revenue Service %% To: C. L. KIRK (Executive Vice-President, IBM) Tune: "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" Ever we praise our able leaders. And our progressive C. A. Kirk is one of them. He is endowed with the will to go forward. He'll always work in the cause of IBM; All of our people united applaud him, As his success in our Company recall, As we know that each one is solidly for him. Proud of the job he is doing for us all. A note on sources: these lyrics were from the liner notes to a record distributed by Advanced Computer Techniques (ACT) Corporation at the Western Joint Computer Conference circa 1960-62. %% To: F. W. NICHOL (VP and General Manager, IBM) His cause IBM and for all of its men He is working and planning, we know; His time without spare, and a knowledge that's rare Is making our company grow. Yes, yes, we all know Mr. Nichol you're making us grow; Your thoughts full of zeal which to you reveal Ever help to keep us on the go. Wherever we are, be it near or afar We will find he has given us with care A message to all that has sounded the call For the will to go forward and dare. Yes, yes we all know Mr. Nichol you're making us grow; the lessons you teach make us strive to e'er reach Our records and keep on the go. A note on sources: these lyrics were from the liner notes to a record distributed by Advanced Computer Techniques (ACT) Corporation at the Western Joint Computer Conference circa 1960-62. %% To: J. L. BARTON (Plant Manager, Endicott Plant) In Endicott we have a man, Whose thoughts will ever be, To fill each need with greater speed, Throughout our factory; J. L. Barton, to IBM you're true; You'll ever go ahead we know And we are back of you. A note on sources: these lyrics were from the liner notes to a record distributed by Advanced Computer Techniques (ACT) Corporation at the Western Joint Computer Conference circa 1960-62. %% To: THOMAS J. WATSON Tune: "Auld Lang Syne" T. J. Watson - you're our leader fine, the greatest in the land, We sing your praises from our hearts we're here to shake your hand. You're IBM's guiding star throughout the hemispheres, No matter what the future brings, we all will perservere. You've made our IBM so great in every land supreme, Our service meets all needs of men and works just like a team. You've brought us through to victory, with leadership that's prime, We'll always love and honor you for the sake of Auld Lang Syne. A note on sources: these lyrics were from the liner notes to a record distributed by Advanced Computer Techniques (ACT) Corporation at the Western Joint Computer Conference circa 1960-62. %% To: The Acme corporation From: Wile E. Coyote Re: Shipment 1743 - Exploding birdseed Dear Sir, I wish to complain about the quality of this product, it failed to detonate. Then, when I went to check up on it, all of a sudden - Kaboom. I request that you cancel my order for this product and send me instead a shipment of your magnetic birdseed and, one of your superstrong cryogenic magnets complete with cooling system (Item # 115-674-7745 ). Please charge these to my account. %% Toast is the national dish of Australia. %% Tobacco is a filthy weed, That from the devil does proceed; It drains your purse, it burns your clothes, And makes a chimney of your nose. -- B. Waterhouse %% Today a man is known by the company he merges. %% Today is Monday, cleverly disguised as Tuesday. %% Today is a good day for information-gathering. Read someone else's mail file. %% Today is a good day to update your resume. %% Today is gonna be one helluva week! %% Today is not a good day to buy a refrigerator. %% Today is the Ayatollah's birthday. To celebrate, the Iranian Navy was going to take him on an inspection tour. Unfortunately, his doctors had to cancel; they said the pressure at that depth might kill him. %% Today is the CAR of the rest of your life. %% Today is the day you were worried about yesterday. %% Today is the first day of the rest of this mess. %% Today is the first day of the rest of your life -- celebrate now! %% Today is the first day of the rest of your life. No, really. It is. %% Today is what happened to yesterday. %% Today is your lucky day. %% Today most physicians specialize. After getting his bill, I've decided my doctor's speciality is banking. -- Mickey Porter %% Today when a man gets married he gets a home, a housekeeper, a cook, a cheering squad and another paycheck. When a woman marries, she gets a boarder. %% Today's taxes are yesterday's promises. %% Todays subliminal message is " " %% Todays weirdness is tomorrows reason why. %% Tofu and futons. The adepts of Orientalism seem to spend most of their lives reclining. They can't quite summon the energy to crawl up onto a chair. Even their Yogic exercises are carried out in a prone or sitting position. -- Edward Abbey %% Together Wendy we could live till the end, I'll love you with all the madness in my soul. %% Together we must rise to ever higher and higher platitudes. %% Toity poiple boids Sitt'n on der coib A' choipin' and a' boipin an' eat'n doity woims. Der spring is spring Der grass is riz I wonder where dem boidies is? Der little boids is on der wing, Ain't that absoid? Der little wings in on der boid! %% Told my girl I'd have to forget her. Rather buy me a new carburetor. So she made tracks, saying this is the end, now. Cars don't talk back, they're just four-wheeled friends, now. -- Queen "I'm in Love With My Car" %% Toledo has an ordinance that prohibits throwing reptiles at another person. %% Tolerances will accumulate unidirectionally toward maximum difficulty to assemble. %% Tolerating what has been spoiled by the father. In continuing one sees humiliation. %% Tom Hayden is the kind of politician who gives opportunism a bad name. -- Gore Vidal %% Tommy, can you hear me? %% Tomorrow will be cancelled due to lack of interest. %% Tomorrow's computers some time next month. -- DEC %% Tomorrow, this will be part of the unchangeable past but fortunately, it can still be changed today. %% Tomorrow, you can be anywhere. %% Ton the' t'a-t'il ote' ton toux? (Did the tea cure your cough?) %% Toni was a communist and very unhappy in capitalist Austria. He wanted to go over the border to Russia, where everything was supposed to be better. His friend Josef was interested too. However, they'd also heard a few stories of repressions and shortages, so they didn't know what to do. "Look," said Toni, "I've got an idea. I'll go over first. If everything's great, I'll write back a letter with blue ink. If things really are awful, and everything's censored, I'll write back a letter with green ink." Toni went over the border. After several months Josef got the following letter, written in blue ink: "Dear Josef, "Everything is just terrific. I'm doing very well. I've got a beautiful large apartment, and there's lots to eat and drink. Prices are really low and you can get whatever you want. The only thing I haven't been able to find is green ink. %% Toni's Solution to a Guilt-Free Life: If you have to lie to someone, it's their fault. %% Tonight I give lecture to Art Students' League. I want a picture of a horse to show that animal is beautiful because every part made for function, without ornament. In Paris I would show woman, but in Toronto I show a horse. -- Anonymous French artist (1931) from "The Book of Insults" %% Tonight I'll get out of my head, cause I can't stop, I'll get out of my head with everything I got. %% Tonight in jungle-land. %% Tonight you will pay the wages of sin; Don't forget to leave a tip. %% Tonight's piss is tomorrow's Tang. -- An American astronaut %% Tonight, tonight the strips just right I'm going to blow them off in my first heat, cause summer is here and the time is right, we're going racing in the street. %% Too bad stupidity isn't painful. %% Too clever is dumb. -- Odgen Nash (1902-1971) %% Too cool to calypso, Too tough to tango, Too weird to watusi -- The Only Ones %% Too low they build who build below the skies. -- Edward Young %% Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot. -- Edward Abbey %% Too many hacks running now. %% Too many objects. %% Too many people are digging up their roots when they should be cultivating their sprouts. %% Too many people in this world means not enough M&M's for me. %% Too many people in this world sit back and expect the grass to grow under their feet even though they didn't plant any seeds. %% Too many people with half a mind to write an introductory programming text do so. -- David Gries, Cornell University %% Too many prepositions. %% Too much gravity argues a shallow mind. -- Lavater %% Too much is just enough. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), [on whiskey] %% Too much month at the end of the money. %% Too often people have come to me and said, "If I had just one wish for anything in all the world, I would wish for more user-defined equations in the HP-51820A Waveform Generator Software. -- Instrument News [Once is too often. Ed.] %% Too ripped. Gotta go. %% Took an hour to bury the cat. Silly thing kept moving. %% Toothpaste never hurts the taste of good scotch. %% Top Scientists Predict That Earth Will Explode at 10:34 PM Tonight. Film at 11. %% Top Ten Reasons the British Lost the Colonies 10) Hard to shoot straight with sissified powdered wig falling in your eyes. 9) Wanted to just lose New Jersey but got carried away. 8) Colonists on steroids. 7) Spent too much time guessing who's gay in the royal family. 6) Their diet: tea and crumpets. Our diet: raw squirrel meat and whiskey. 5) Serious problems with snuff abuse. 4) Lots of painful poking accidents trying to put on those pointy hats of theirs. 3) We had Batman. 2) Wanted to get first draft choice. 1) Uninspiring battle cry: "Let's win this for our swishy inbred monarch!" %% Top executives cannot afford to be isolated from the people below, who are in better touch with what is going on, and cannot afford to set unrealistic goals. -- Charles Burck %% Top priority - it may be idiotic but the boss wants it -- Glossary of important business terms %% Topologists are just plane folks. Pilots are just plane folks. Carpenters are just plane folks. Midwest farmers are just plain folks. Musicians are just playin' folks. Whodunit readers are just Spillaine folks. Some Londoners are just P. Lane folks. %% Topologists do it on rubber sheets. %% Topologists do it openly. %% Torque is cheap. %% Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything. %% Toto, I don't think we're in DOS anymore... %% Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas any more! %% Touch if you must, Pay up if you bust. %% Touching the dead cockatrice is a fatal mistake ... You turn to stone. %% Tough shit, asshole. %% Towering genius disdains the beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) %% Tower castles where knights are dubbed use blood as mortar. %% Toys are made in heaven, batteries are made in hell. %% Train a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. -- Proverbs XXII, 6. %% Tramps like us, baby, we were born to run. %% Tranquillizers might get you killed. %% Transformers do it by coupling. %% Transportable - Neither chained to a wall nor attached to an alarm system. %% Trap full -- please empty. %% Travel fast, use some magic speed! %% Traveler, there is no path, paths are made by walking. %% Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy. -- Han Solo %% Travis! You're a year too late! %% Treading a smooth, level course. The perseverance of a dark man Brings good fortune. %% Treading. Treading upon the tail of the tiger. It does not bite the man. Success. %% Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. -- James Harrington (1611-1677) %% Treat me like a fool, treat me mean and cruel, but love me. %% Treat the other man's faith gently: it is all he has to believe with. -- Henry S. Haskins %% Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. -- Publilius Syrus %% Treat yourself to something you haven't had in years--an original thought. %% Treat yourself well. %% Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. -- Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) %% Trees hit cars only in self-defence. %% Trespassers will be eaten. %% Trespassers will be violated! %% Trick or Treater #1: "Cool costume." Trick or Treater #2: "Hey, what smells." -- "Scariest Home Videos" with mummy nearby, Eerie Indiana %% Tried to play my shoehorn... all I got was footnotes! %% Tried to steal a strange worn thing. %% Trinity is the word for a committed god. %% Tripe on its own is revolting, but with onions it's delicious! %% Trivia is my Business %% Trivial matters are handled promptly; important matters are never solved. %% Trolls are close relatives with the rocks and have skin as tough as that of a rhinoceros. The troll fends off your blows effortlessly. %% Trombonists do it in seven positions. %% Trombonists slide it in and out %% Trouble always comes at the wrong time. %% Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes. -- Henry J. Kaiser %% Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough. -- Dinah Shore %% Trouble strikes in series of threes, but when working around the house the next job after a series of threes is not the fourth job--it's the start of a brand new series of threes. -- Avery %% Troubles are like babies; they only grow by nursing. %% Trousers in Action %% Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps. Or a hand grenade, if handy. Or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface. -- Edward Abbey %% Troutman's 1st Law: If a test installation functions perfectly, all subsequent systems will malfunction. %% Troutman's 2nd Law: Not until a program has been in production for at least 6 months will the most serious error be discovered. %% Troutman's 3rd Law: Interchangeable tapes won't. %% Troutman's 4th Law: Machines work. People should think. %% Troutmans's programming postulates: 1) If a test installation functions perfectly, all subsequent systems will malfunction. 2) Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will the most harmful error be discovered. 3) Job control instructions that positively cannot be arranged in improper order will be. 4) Interchangeable tapes won't. 5) If the input editor has been designed to reject all bad input, a co-op will discover a method to get bad data past it. 6) Profanity is the one language all programmers know best. %% Truants do it absently. %% Truck deliveries that normally take one day will take five when you are waiting for the truck. %% True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) %% True dignity is never gained by place, and never won when honors are withdrawn. -- Massinger %% True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, not all that could be. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. -- Humboldt %% True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. -- Charles Caleb Colton %% True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. %% True happiness will be found only in true love. %% True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. -- William Shakespeare %% True intelligence consists of not getting upset when supposedly intelligent people think you are ignorant. %% True leadership is the art of changing a group from what it is to what it ought to be. -- Virginia Allan %% True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about as easy as one can. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) %% True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man. %% True story: A friend, Tim, was taking a computer class. He and another guy (call him Steve) were the only members of the class ever to do their programs. Everyone else just copied from Steve. One day in class the prof hands back programs. He asks Tim to go to the copier and make 20 copies of his program so everyone can see what a good job he did. As soon as Tim leaves the room, the prof says "I believe you all already have a copy of Steve's program." %% Truly simple systems... require infinite testing. -- Norman Augustine %% Trumpeters blow hard %% Trumpeters do it with alternant fingerings %% Trust - Senior management doesn't trust its own staff and is suspicious of their motives. Therefore senior management needs to be told the same things as its staff are saying by a consultant costing $60,000. %% Trust The Computer. The Computer is your friend. %% Trust everybody ... then cut the cards. %% Trust him, but still keep your eyes open. %% Trust in Allah, but tie your camel anyway. %% Trust me -- I'm a Lawyer. %% Trust no future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living present! Heart within and God o'erhead! -- Longfellow %% Trust people all you want, but always cut the cards yourself. %% Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name. -- Joan Rivers %% Truth ... never comes into the world, but like a Bastard, to the ignominy of him that brought her forth. -- John Milton (1608-1674) %% Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. -- Johann von Schiller %% Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind... -- Percy Bysshe Shelley %% Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always. -- Albert Schweitzer %% Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one. -- Konrad Lorenz %% Truth is God's daughter. %% Truth is a gem that is found at a great depth; whilst on the surface of this world, all things are weighed by the false scale of custom. -- Byron %% Truth is a river that is always splitting up into arms that reunite. Islanded between the arms the inhabitants argue for a lifetime as to which is the main river. -- Cyril Connolly, "The Unquiet Grave" 1945 %% Truth is a statue, and you are all just a bunch of pigeons. %% Truth is always the enemy of power. And power the enemy of truth. -- Edward Abbey %% Truth is hard to find and harder to obscure. %% Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where, precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In between? Or somewhere else? -- Edward Abbey %% Truth is the answer. %% Truth needs no flowers of speech. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) %% Truth never tranquilizes. The defining property of truth is its ability to disturb. -- Solomon Short %% Truth that has merely been learned is like an artificial limb, a false tooth, a waxen nose; it adheres to us only because it is put on. But truth acquired by thought of our own is like a natural limb; it alone really belongs to us. -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) %% Truth would cease to become stranger than fiction, if we got used to it. %% Try Quisinwrite, the combination word processor and food processor, for those who frequently have to eat their words. %% Try `stty 0' -- it works much better. %% Try a 2 X 4. %% Try a chainsaw. %% Try a dull knife. %% Try hacking in the wee hours: you will have more room. %% Try harder. %% Try it, you'll like it. %% Try never to run out of altitude, airspeed, and luck at the same time. %% Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) %% Try the UnCola. Its made from the UnCola nut. %% Try the fall back end run play against ghosts. %% Try the new "EUNUCHS" operating system: Extremely Useless, Never Up, Computer Hardware and Software System. %% Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell. -- Bill Copeland %% Try to develop your own personality. %% Try to divide your time evenly to keep others happy. %% Try to find out who's doing the work, not who's writing about it, controlling it, or summarizing it. -- Amrom Katz %% Try to have as good a life as you can under the circumstances. %% Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo %% Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. -- Ashleigh Brilliant %% Try to spend the entire day sober. %% Try to swallow at least three times a day. %% Try to value useful qualities in one who loves you. %% Trying in vain to breath the fire we were born in. %% Trying to attack a # #. %% Trying to get an education here is like trying to take a drink from a fire hose. %% Trying to kill a # #. %% Trying to learn how to walk like the heros we thought we had to be. %% Trying to shoot yourself in the foot in: ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE: For those who like to load their own rounds before shooting themselves in the foot. -- rhsmith %% Trying to shoot yourself in the foot in: CLIPPER: You grab a bullet, get ready to insert it in the gun so that you can shoot yourself in the foot, and discover that the gun that the bullet fits has not yet been built, but should be arriving in the mail _REAL_SOON_NOW_. -- rboatright %% Trying to shoot yourself in the foot in: DBase IV version 1.0: You pull the trigger, but it turns out that the gun was a poorly-designed grenade and the whole building blows up. -- akarna %% Trying to shoot yourself in the foot in: DBase: You squeeze the trigger, but the bullet moves so slowingly that by the time your foot feels the pain you've forgotten why you shot yourself anyway. -- rboatright %% Trying to shoot yourself in the foot in: Forth: yourself foot shoot. -- akarna %% Trying to shoot yourself in the foot in: Prolog: You attempt to shoot yourself in the foot, but the bullet, failing to find its mark, backtracks into the gun which then explodes in your face. -- BG %% Trying to shoot yourself in the foot in: SQL: You cut your foot off, send it out to a service bureau and when it returns, it has a hole in it, but will no longer fit the attachment at the end of your leg. -- rboatright %% Tsze-kung asked, saying, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." -- Confucius (551-479 B.C.) %% Tubby or not tubby, fat is the question! %% Tuesday After Lunch is the cosmic time of the week. %% Tuesday is Ladies Night at the world famous Corbin Theatre! %% Tuesday is the Wednesday of the rest of your life. %% Tumor: An extra pair. %% Turn on, tune in, and take over. -- Tim Leary %% Turn right here. No! NO! The OTHER right! %% Turn the other cheek. -- Jesus Christ %% Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart: the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are filled with a passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of SPIRITUS MUNDI Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again: but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour now come at last Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? -- William Butler Yeats, "The Second Comming" %% Turning away from nourishment. Perseverance brings misfortune. Do not act thus for ten years. Nothing serves to further. %% Turning away from the path. To remain persevering brings good fortune. One should not cross the great water. %% Turning down the desires of Marie John explained, "It's unfair, don't you see? For all I can do Is to keep screwing you While you'd screw none other than me." %% Turning floppies into hard drives. %% Turning to the summit for nourishment, Deviating from the path To seek nourishment from the hill. Continuing to do this brings misfortune. %% Turning to the summit For provision of nourishment Brings good fortune. Spying about with sharp eyes Like a tiger with insatiable craving. No blame. %% Turtle Wax leaves a hard-shell finish. Turtle Wax! %% Twas a month before Christmas and all through the nation We watch Roger and Ross with great anticipation Seven hundred million of new printed cash Withdrawn from our hard earned profit sharing stash Wall street in panic The stocks are falling Roger's transaction is simply appalling The media is full with news of the deal About 750 mil if Ross wants to squeal Roger says it's Ross and Ross says he's right Tickets are selling for the Cobo Hall fight The ring is now ready for Ross and Roger It's Ross the cowboy versus Roger the codger But nothing happens They're calm and cool for 700 million, Ross Ain't no fool Two weeks before Christmas presents need buying I wait for my profit sharing my bank account is dying I run to the mail box and prayed for my check only a Christmas card, Oh what the heck. I opened the card, my face grew red I'll share with just what it said My name is Ross and I hope you know Roger gave me All your profit sharing dough So I thought for his kindness; I'd drop you a line To let you know I'm doing fine. And my name is gone from the office doors glass, I got 700 million and you can kiss my ass. %% Tweedledum and Tweedledee Agreed to have a battle; For Tweedledum said Tweedledee Had spoilt his nice new rattle. Just then flew down a monstrous crow, As black as a tar-barrel; Which frightened both the heroes so, They quite forgot their quarrel. -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Glass" %% Twelve pears hanging high, Twelve men came riding by Each man took a pear and left elven hanging there. "Eachman" was a rider's name %% Twelve rubber trees with thirty flexible boughs The year and it's months %% Twenty two thousand days. Twenty two thousand days. It's not a lot. It's all you've got. Twenty two thousand days. -- Moody Blues, "Twenty Two Thousand Days" %% Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) %% Twenty-eight members of a weight-watching club on an outing in Australia suffered the exquisite embarrassment of having their bus sink up to its axles in a tarred parking lot. -- Bill Bryson %% Twice four and twenty blackbirds Were sitting in the rain One shot killed a seventh How many did remain? Four %% Twice ten are but six of us Six are but three of us Nine are but four of us What can we possibly be? Would you know more of us? I'll tell you more of us Twelve are but six of us Five are but four, do you see? Letters %% Twilight... he stands, on trial, saying nothing. We thought, sad. And yet- that smile! So we wondered... %% Twinkle, twinkle, little bat! How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly! Like a tea-tray in the sky. -- Lewis Carroll, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" %% Twins: womb-mates. %% Twist and Crawl. %% Twist and Groove. %% Twist and Shout. %% Twisted Pair - a couple of perverts -- Data communications glossary %% Two Atheists were shipwrecked on a deserted Island. The situation was getting grim with the hot tropical sun beating down on them and no fresh water. The First Atheist says "Maybe we ought to Pray.... " Second Atheist says "But I'm an atheist, I don't know how to Pray!" First Atheist: "Don't worry, I used to live next to this Catholic church and heard them doing it all the time. They have this guy who stands up at the front and does the prayers. I think I remember some of them. Tell you what, I'll start out and you repeat what I say... " The second atheist thinks this is satisfactory and agrees. First Atheist (loudly): "I" Second Atheist : "I" First Atheist: "Seventeen" Second Atheist: "Seventeen" %% Two IBM salesmen were driving down a country road at high speed and passed a pickup truck with an old couple inside. "Look at those fools, pa! Must be a couple of IBM salesman and they will surely meet their maker soon, I tell you." Well, sure enough, a little while later the couple comes across a bad accident involving the two IBM salesmen. "Well maw, we got to do what any good folk would do and give em a decent burial." So the couple dug a hole and buried the IBM salesman. Just as they were putting their tools away, a cop drives up. "You folks see this accident?" "No sir, but we knew them dang fools were going to have it when they passed us doing a hundred miles an hour. Well, we finally come across the accident and gave them IBM salesman a decent burial" "You were sure that they were dead??" "Well, they said they weren't, but you know how those IBM salesmen exaggerate!" %% Two Irish lovers are sitting on a bench, in a park. They are holding hands, but the lady is nervously twisting her hands. Mary: "Patrick. I have something to tell you". Patrick: "Well, what's on your mind? You know you can tell me everything." Mary: "It's so terrible." Patrick: "You know you can trust me. What is it?" Mary: "Well, it was a few years ago. Father lost his job, and no money in sight.." Patrick: "So, what is it?" Mary: "Oh. We were so desperate. For some time I had to turn ... prostitute!" Patrick: "WHAT!" Mary: "We needed the money so bad!" Patrick: "There is no good reason for this! Endangering your very soul! How could you? YOU! Mary this is more than I can stand!" Mary: "Not you, Pat! No! I thought you'd understand. I thought you could still love me, even though I had been a whore." Patrick: "Oh! ...You... Well, that's ok. For a moment I thought you said 'protestant'!" %% Two Italians hijacked a submarine. They asked for $50,000 and two parachutes. %% Two Kindergarten girls were talking; My mother found a condom on the patio last night. What's a patio? %% Two Martians landed on earth and ran into each other. "Hi!" said the first Martian, "What's your name?" "428,629,382. And what's yours?" "Mine's 664,935,715." "That's funny," said the first, "You don't look Jewish!" %% Two Russian border guards, Ivan and Vladimir, on a cold winter morning. Looking across the border, Ivan is smiling to himself, then he notices that Vladimir is also smiling. Ivan [suspiciously]: "What were you thinking about?" Vladimir: "Same thing you were thinking about, comrade." Ivan: "Then it is my duty to arrest you." %% Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sesame seed bun. %% Two anglers were fishing off Wight And his bobber was dipping all night. Murmured she, with a laugh, "It's ready to gaff, But don't break your rod which is light." A couple was fishing near Clombe When the maid began looking quite glum, And said, "Bother the fish! I'd rather coish!" Which they did -- which was why they had come. As two consular clerks in Madras Fished, hidden in deep shore-grass, "What a marvelous pole," Said she, "but control Your sinkers -- they're banging my ass." %% Two can be as sad as one, it's the loneliest number since the No. 1. %% Two cannonballs got married --- and had BBs. %% Two cars in every pot and a chicken in every garage. %% Two cheerleaders ended up at the alter. They met by chants. %% Two dogs had chased a third dog for hours in the hot sun. Dog1: "Ain't this a bitch?" Dog2: "It sure as hell better be!" %% Two drunks are stumbling along a railroad track which happens to go up a mountain. The first drunk says, "These are the lousiest steps I ever tried to climb!" The second, who is bent over, replies, "You think that's bad, wait till you try to hold the handrail!" %% Two elephants fell off a cliff. Boom Boom. %% Two gentlemen met at the club after a long absence and talked. "Did you hear about Chumly?", one asked. "No, old man, what about him?" "Last seen in Africa, you know." "No, I didn't." "Yes. Appalling. Ran off with a gorilla. Fallen in love." "Queer." "Not Chumley. Female gorilla." %% Two guys were stranded on a desert island. The only way they could get food was to kill sea birds by throwing rocks at them. By the time they were rescued, ... They had left no tern unstoned. %% Two heads are better than one. -- John Heywood %% Two heads are more numerous than one. %% Two hippies were waiting at the bus stop along with a nun with her leg in a cast. The first hippie asked "Sister, how did you break you leg?" "I slipped in the bathtub." The second hippie asked the first "What's a bathtub?" "How should I know, I'm not Catholic!" %% Two hundred years ago today, Irma Chine of White Plains, New York, was performing her normal housekeeping routines. She was interrupted by British soldiers who, rallying to the call of their supervisor, General Hughes, sought to gain control of the voter registration lists kept in her home. Masking her fear and thinking fast, Mrs. Chine quickly divided a nearby apple in two and deftly stored the list in its center. Upon entering, the British blatantly violated every conceivable convention, and, though they went through the house virtually bit by bit, their search was fruitless. They had to return empty handed. Word of the incident propagated rapidly through the region. This historic event became the first documented use of core storage for the saving of registers. %% Two hunters were forced by a storm to seek overnight shelter in a house occupied by only a homely farmer's widow. When they met again the following hunting season, one asked, "Tell me, did you screw that old bag we stayed with last year?" "Yes," admitted the other, "I'm afraid I did." "And you used my name--and told her you were me?" "Yeah, I did that, too," laughed his hunting companion. "I didn't knock her up, did I?" "No, no," smiled his friend. "It's just that she died yesterday and left me the house and a hundred thousand dollars." %% Two is company, three is an orgy. %% Two lawyers are in a bank, when, suddenly, armed robbers burst in. While several of the robbers take the money from the tellers, others line the customers, including the lawyers, up against a wall, and proceed to take their wallets, watches, etc. While this is going on lawyer number one jams something in lawyer number two's hand. Without looking down, lawyer number two whispers, "What is this?", to which lawyer number one replies, "it's that $50 I owe you." %% Two lawyers were walking along, negotiating a case. Look, said one to the other, let's be honest with each other. Okay, you first, replied the other. That was the end of the discussion. %% Two lovers, parked in local makeout spot: Oh Frank, let's not park Oh Frank, let's not Oh Frank, let's Oh Frank Oh!!! %% Two men and a woman were stranded on a desert island - Two weeks later, the woman was so ashamed of what she had been doing, she committed suicide. Two weeks later, the men were so ashamed of what they had been doing, they buried her. Two weeks later, the men were so ashamed of what they had been doing, they dug her back up. %% Two men are hiking in the mountains. One suddenly stops, removes his hiking boots, and starts putting on sneakers. The other asks why he is doing so. The first man answers, "I thought I heard a bear." The second argues, "You can't outrun a bear, not even with sneakers." The first responds, "I just need to outrun YOU!" %% Two men in nice suits are walking through a park when suddenly one of them gets hit with a healthy dose of pigeon shit on the shoulder. "Oh, YUK!" said the other man, "There's a bathroom over there, do you want me to get some toilet paper?" "What for?" says the guy with the soiled suit, "The little guy's miles away by now." %% Two men look out through the same bars; one sees mud, and one the stars. %% Two men once wrote to Mark Twain. Not having his address, they marked the envelope, Mark Twain God knows where They received a response from him: "He did." %% Two men were sitting over coffee, contemplating the nature of things, with all due respect for their breakfast. "I wonder why it is that toast always falls on the buttered side," said one. "Tell me," replied his friend, "why you say such a thing. Look at this." And he dropped his toast on the floor, where it landed on the dry side. "So, what have you to say for your theory now?" "What am I to say? You obviously buttered the wrong side." %% Two men were standing around talking while nearby a large German Shepherd lay licking his balls. One man says to the other, "Damn, I wish I could do that." The other man replies, "Well, it's okay by me, but I think you ought to get to know him first." %% Two nuns are visiting the zoo. When they reach the Gorilla cage one of the nuns steps to close to the cage and the Gorilla grabs her and rapes her violently for a long time. They left the zoo and the poor nun who was attacked goes through counseling to help her get over this embarrassing incident. After several days the counselor asks the nun, "Does it still hurt?" "DOES IT STILL HURT?!?", reponded the nun with sarcasm, "He doesn't call, he doesn't write, he hasn't sent flowers..." %% Two nuns went to the zoo one day. They walked around and saw a lot of different animals, but ended up spending most of their day watching the giant male gorilla. Suddenly, without warning, the gorilla reached through the bars and dragged one of the nuns into the cage and began brutally raping her repeatedly. By the time the zoo personal were able to tranquilize the beast, it had savaged the poor nun for nearly an hour. While the nun who had been raped recovered in a hospital, nearly a week went by until her friend went to visit her, for she felt extremely guilty that her friend had been so savagely brutalized, and she had escaped unscathed. Finally, she stood by her beside, holding her hand. From the bed, her friend looked at her bravely. The one nun said, "Sister, are you in much pain?" The other nun nodded. "He hasn't called or written..." %% Two nuns, a mother superior and a new nun, are walking home one night from church when they are attacked by two vicious rapists. The two men drag the nuns off into the bushes and proceed to have their way with them. The mother superior is very afraid, but she knows that God will protect her. To show her strength and trust in God she yells out "Forgive him Father, for he knows not what he does!" To which the young nun replies "Oooooh, mine does!!" %% Two obviously high-class old ladies are strolling down a city street when they run across a grizzled, ragged old derelict lying drunk in the gutter, covered with garbage, sewer water running all over him. "Hmmmph," sniffs one of the old ladies haughtily. "Cleanliness is next to godliness. William Shakespeare!" %% Two of the Ten Commandments for Technicians: 1) Beware the lightening that lurketh in the undischarged capacitor, lest it cause thee to bounce upon thy buttocks in a most untechnician-like manner. 7) Workest thou not on energized equipment, for if thou dost, thy fellow workers will surely buy beers for thy widow and console her in other ways. %% Two office ladies discussing their husbands, one says, 'My husband brought me roses last night, I spent all night with my legs in the air'. The other says,' Hmm, don't you have a vase?' %% Two peanuts went to New York. One was assaulted. %% Two penguins walk into a bar, which is really stupid, 'cause the second one should have seen it. %% Two polish parachutists got into an argument as to who was the best skydiver. As usually results in such cases, they decide to have a contest. Both would skydive towards a target, and whoever was closest, wins. One goes first. Jumps, falls, pulls his ripcord, chute opens ... just a beautiful dive. Second one jumps, falls, pulls his ripcord, nothing happens. Pulls his backup ripcord, nothing happens. Pulls his emergency backup ripcord, nothing happens. Gives up, and zooms past the first skydiver. First one looks down, rips off his harness, and shouts "Oh, you want to RACE, huh?" %% Two programmers named Diagu and Gudo were making presentations to the president of a large corporation. When he stood up to speak, Gudo said to the executive, "You are wise by nature and understand the true meaning of computers." "Nonsense," said Diagu, "Why do you praise this fool? He may be an executive, but he knows nothing about computers." The executive rewarded them both and then hired a consultant to determine which of them was correct. -- The Zen of Programming %% Two programmers were arguing about user interface. "Significant inroads are being made in 'ease-of-use'," said the first programmer, "Soon people will no longer need to read tedious manuals before they can use a computer. Programs will be self-evident." The second programmer thought about this for a moment and then said, "Last weekend I decided to chop some wood for a fire, but my old axe was dull and worn. So I went to the hardware store and purchased a new one." "That's all very interesting," said the first programmer, "but what does it have to do with user interface?" "The new axe came with an eight-page instruction booklet," he replied. -- The Zen of Programming %% Two recent emigrants to the United States, on their first day off the boat in New York City, spied a hotdog vendor. "Do they eat dogs in America?" one asked his companion. "I don't know." "Well, if we're going to live in America, we have to learn to eat American foods." So they each bought a wax paper wrapped hotdog and sat down to eat them on a nearby park bench. One man looked inside his wax paper, then over at the other man, and asked, "So, what part did you get?" %% Two rights don't make a wrong, they make an airplane. %% Two roosters in one of our pens Found their pricks were no larger than wens. As they looked at their foreskins And wished they had more skins, They discovered they'd both become hens. %% Two seals fell off a cliff. Arf Arf %% Two sodium atoms are walking along the street when one stops and says, "Oh wow, I think I've lost an electron!" "Are you sure?" asks the other sodium atom. "Yes," replies the first sodium atom, "I'm positive." %% Two statisticians went hunting. After a short time, they came upon a magnificent elk standing near a grove of trees. The first statistician took careful aim and fired, hitting a tree far to the right of the elk. The second statistician then took his turn; the shot hit a different tree, this time far to the left. "Got him!" %% Two swords slashing at each other only sharpen one another. %% Two things are certain about science. It does not stand still for long, and it is never boring. Oh, among some poor souls, including even intellectuals in fields of high scholarship, science is frequently misperceived. Many see it as only a body of facts, promulgated from on high in must, unintelligible textbooks, a collection of unchanging precepts defended with authoritarian vigor. Others view it as nothing but a cold, dry narrow, plodding, rule-bound process -- the scientific method: hidebound, linear, and left brained. These people are the victims of their own stereotypes. They are destined to view the world of science with a set of blinders. They know nothing of the tumult, cacophony, rambunctiousness, and tendentiousness of the actual scientific process, let alone the creativity, passion, and joy of discovery. And they are likely to know little of the continual procession of new insights and discoveries that every day, in some way, change our view (if not theirs) of the natural world. -- Kendrick Frazier, "The Year in Science: An Overview," in 1988 Yearbook of Science and the Future, Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. %% Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe -- the starry heavens above me, and the moral law within me. -- Immanuel Kant %% Two whores are talking on the sidewalk... W1 [sniffing sounds] I smell dick. W2 [blushing] Oh, excuse me, I burped. %% Two women sitting, waiting for a bus, while discussing their boyfriends; Women 1: You know, Jim's a really great guy but he has one problem .... he has dandruff, What should I do ? Women 2: Just give him Head and Shoulders ! The first woman thinks for a while and then says, "How do you give shoulders ?" %% Two wrongs are only the beginning. -- Kohn %% Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. Except in Boston. %% Two young men seated in a restaurant were watching a customer busily disposing of a plate of oysters on the half shell. One of the young men remarked to his friend, "Did you ever hear that business about raw oysters being good for a man's virility?" "Yes, why?" the friend replied. "Well, take it from me, that's a lot of foolishness. I ate a dozen of them the other night, and only nine worked." %% Two's company, three's the result. %% Two's company. Three's a trend. %% Tyger, Tyger, burning bright Where the hammer? Where the chain? In the forests of the night, In what furnace was thy brain? What immortal hand or eye What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Dare its deadly terrors clasp? Burnt in distant deeps or skies When the stars threw down their spears The cruel fire of thine eyes? And water'd heaven with their tears On what wings dare he aspire? Dare he laugh his work to see? What the hand dare seize the fire? Dare he who made the lamb make thee? And what shoulder & what art Tyger, Tyger, burning bright Could twist the sinews of they heart? In the forests of the night, And when thy heart began to beat What immortal hand or eye What dread hand & what dread feet Dare frame thy fearful symmetry? Could fetch it from the furnace deep And in thy horrid ribs dare steep In the well of sanguine woe? In what clay & in what mould Were thy eyes of fury roll'd? -- William H. Blake (1757-1827), "The Tyger" %% Type to continue. %% Type louder, please. %% Typesetters always correct intentional errors, but fail to correct unintentional errors. -- Alan Otten %% Typesetters do it between periods %% Typical user after one hour of using his VAX: | | ||| ||| || | || || |||| || ||| ||| |||||||||||||||| |||||||||||||||| || || || ^ ^ || ( ) - (O) (0) - ( ) ( ==== | || | ==== ) ( ==== | | | | ==== ) ( ) - / \ - ( ) | \o o/ | | | | | | VVVVVVVVVV | | | () | | | | /--||--\ | | | ^^^^^^^^^^ | \______________/ mAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGGG!!!!!! %% Typists do it with their fingers. %% Typographers rule, OQ %% Tyre Shop sign - We Skid You Not. %% Tyrone Shoelaces %% U e Du Dx, cosine, secant, tangent, sine, 3.14159 %% U. Stuart Rubble %% U.S. money is the worst looking money in the world. %% UART what UEAT! %% UFO's are real--the Air Force is swamp gas! %% UFOs are real, the Air Force dosen't exist. %% UNDERWEAR can KILL %% UNION: A dues-paying club workers wield to strike management. %% UNITARIAN: A bunch of athiests who really like going to church. %% UNIVERSITY: Like a software house, except the software's free, and it's usable, and it works, and if it breaks they'll quickly tell you how to fix it, and... [Okay, okay, leave it in, but I think you're destroying the credibility of the entire fortune program. Ed.] %% UNIX don't do it. %% UNIX enhancements aren't. %% UNIX is a Trademark of Bell Laboratories. %% UNIX is many things to many people, but it's never been everything to anybody. %% UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because that policy would also keep them from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn (1 Aug 90) %% UNIX will be half a billion (500000000) seconds old on Tue Nov 5 00:53:20 1985 GMT (measuring since the time(2) epoch). -- Andy Tannenbaum %% UNIX. Official operating system of the 1984 Olympic Games. %% UNIX: An operating system only a mother could love. -- Paul Beck %% UNOBTRUSIVE MEASURES: Experimental techniques of unclear origin having something to do with work tiles. Observing madam in her bath without bringing forth screams. %% UNPRECEDENTED PERFORMANCE: nothing we had before ever worked this way %% UNTOLD WEALTH: What you left out on April 15th. %% UP Understand Program %% US NEWS & DUNGEON REPORT 10-SEP-78 Late Dungeon Edition --- LATE NEWS FLASH!! --- The endgame is here! (Somewhere) --- BACKGROUND INFORMATION --- This version of Dungeon for the PDP-11/VAX-11 has been completely reimplemented in FORTRAN-IV from the original MDL sources created at MIT. The parser in this version is somewhat simpler than the parser in the ARPAnet version; within this limit, this version is fully congruent with the current version on the ARPAnet. If you encounter problems, please report them IN WRITING to: Digital Equipment Corporation Users Society (DECUS) One Iron Way, MR2-3/E55 Marlboro, Mass. 01752 Attention: Dungeon Maintenance PHONE CALLS AND IN-PERSON VISITS WILL BE RUDELY REJECTED! [CLOSE COVER BEFORE STRIKING BKD] %% USER n. A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. One who asks questions. Identified at MIT with "loser" by the spelling "luser". See REAL USER. [Note by GLS: I don't agree with RF's definition at all. Basically, there are two classes of people who work with a program: there are implementors (hackers) and users (losers). The users are looked down on by hackers to a mild degree because they don't understand the full ramifications of the system in all its glory. (A few users who do are known as real winners.) It is true that users ask questions (of necessity). Very often they are annoying or downright stupid.] %% UTSA doesn't agree with me. They're wrong. -- William W. Hughes, whughes@lonestar.utsa.edu %% UU UU M M U U U M M U U M M U U M M U U M M U U MMM %% UUO (you-you-oh) [short for "Un-Used Operation"] n. A DEC-10 system monitor call. The term "Un-Used Operation" comes from the fact that, on DEC-10 systems, monitor calls are implemented as invalid or illegal machine instructions, which cause traps to the monitor (see TRAP). The SAIL manual describing the available UUO's has a cover picture showing an unidentified underwater object. [Note: DEC sales people have since decided that "Un-Used Operation" sounds bad, so UUO now stands for "Unimplemented User Operation".] Tenex and Twenex systems use the JSYS machine instruction (q.v.), which is halfway between a legal machine instruction and a UUO, since KA-10 Tenices implement it as a hardware instruction which can be used as an ordinary subroutine call (sort of a "pure JSR"). %% Ubi, O, ubi est meam sub ubi? -- Vergil %% Udall's Fourth Law: Any change or reform you make is going to have consequences you don't like. %% Ugly Janitors of America %% Ugly, hookers tell me "Not on the first date". %% Uh oh. Looks like we got a 666 down there - deity on a rampage. %% Uh-oh -- I've let the cat out of the bag. Let me, then, straightforwardly state the thesis I shall now elaborate: Making variations on a theme is really the crux of creativity. -- Douglas R. Hofstadter, "Metamagical Themas" %% Uh-oh. Atarians can't hold a candle to the insecurity of Mac owners. You rankled Mac owners who feel the need defend yourself, please do so by flaming in private. And don't start something you can't finish. I'm sure Apple's OS for the 68000-based Macintoshs will support multitasking just as soon as Jean Louis-Gasse invents it. In the meantime, do whatever you need to do to make sure other systems that have advanced the state of personal computers don't enter your peripheral vision. You'll be a lot happier, we'll be a lot happier. -- Chuck McManis, cmcmanis@sun.com %% Uhland's poetry is like the famous war horse, Bayard; it possesses all possible virtues and only one fault: it is dead. -- Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) %% Ultimate Question Research Team %% Ultra Short Term Nostalgia: Homesickness for the extremely recent past: "Things seemed so much better in the world last week." -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X %% Umbroglio: what you and your umbrella get into on a rainy day. %% Umpire's dessert -- rhubarb pie -- Raymond D. Love %% Un chasseur sachant chasser chasse sans son chien. (A hunter who knows how to hunt hunts without his dog. %% Un moine au milieu de la messe A monk in the middle of mass S'eleva et cria en detresse; Stood up and cried out in distress; "La vie religieuse, "The religious life C'est sale et affreuse," Is dirty and horrid," Et se poignarda dans les fesses. And stabbed himself in the ass. -- Edward Gorey %% Un tien vaut miex que deux tu l'auras. (A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.) %% Unable to dodge your deadly aim, the store manager is pierced completely through, and collapses forward, lifeless. %% Unable to locate Coffee -- Operator Halted! %% Unbearably lovely music is heard as the curtain rises, and we see the woods on a summer afternoon. A fawn dances on and nibbles at some leaves. He drifts lazily through the soft foliage. Soon he starts coughing and drops dead. -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers" %% Unbidden guests are often welcomest when they are gone. -- William Shakespeare %% Unburdened by the rigors of coherent thought. %% Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. -- R. I. Fitzhenry %% Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb: Never use your thumb for a rule. You'll either hit it with a hammer or get a splinter in it. %% Uncorrectable ECC error %% Under Alabama law, the wearer of a false moustache in church who causes unseemly laughter is subject to arrest. %% Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) %% Under any system a few sharpies will beat the rest of us. -- Al Goodfather %% Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb %% Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under Communism, it's just the opposite. -- John Kenneth Galbraith %% Under current practices, both expenditures and revenues rise to meet each other, no matter which one may be in excess. -- Joe Bolton %% Under every stone lurks a politician. -- Aristophanes %% Under heaven thunder rolls: All things attain the natural state of innocence. Thus the kings of old, Rich in virtue, and in harmony with the time, Fostered and nourished all beings. %% Under heaven, wind: The image of Coming to Meet. Thus does the prince act when disseminating his commands And proclaiming them to the four quarters of heaven. %% Under no circumstances should you ever include computer jargon in a business algorithm. -- BU260 syllabus %% Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smith he sat, Amusing himself By abusing himself And catching the load in his hat. %% Under the wide an starry sky, Dig my grave and let me lie, Glad did I live and gladly die, And laid me down with a will, And this be the verse that you grave for me, Here he lies where he longed to be, Home is the sailor home from the sea, And the hunter home from the hill. -- Rudyard Kipling %% Under the wide and heavy VAX Dig my grave and let me relax Long have I lived, and many my hacks And I lay me down with a will. These be the words that tell the way: "Here he lies who piped 64K, Brought down the machine for nearly a day, And Rogue playing to an awful standstill." %% Underdogging: The tendency to almost invariably side with the underdog in a given situation. The consumer expression of this trait is the purchasing of less successful, "sad," or failing products: "I know these Vienna franks are heart failure on a stick, but they were so sad looking up against all the other yuppie food items that I just had to buy them." -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X %% Underneath the pile of leaves is a grating. %% Underneath the rug is a closed trap door. %% Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character. -- Oscar Levant %% Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P. D. Ouspensky %% Understanding the laws of nature does not mean we are free from obeying them. -- Solomon Short %% Understanding this operating system is like trying to play Pic-up Sticks with your butt cheeks. %% Undertakers do it with corpses. %% Undeserved misfortune. The cow that was tethered by someone Is the wanderer's gain, the citizen's loss. %% Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited. -- Tom Gibb %% Une joile epousetta a Tours Voulait de gig-gig tous le jours. Mais le mari disait, "Non! De trop n'est pas bon! Mon derriere exige du secours!" %% Uneasy sits the butt that bears the boss. -- Louis Wu "The Ringworld Engineers" %% Unemployed? Hungry? Eat a foreign car. -- Seen on a bumper sticker %% Unemployment helps stretch your coffee break. %% Uneven economic and political development is an absolute law of capitalism. -- Nicolai Lenin %% Unexpected interrupt %% Unfair competition: Selling cheaper than we do. -- Kelvin Throop III, "The Management Dictionary" %% Unfortunately for you, it is nearly 5 pm and I have run out of pithy things to say. %% Unfortunately it is here that hell is located. %% Unfortunately, it is impossible to tell directions in here. %% Unfortunately, most programmers like to play with new toys. I have many friends who, immediately upon buying a snakebite kit, would be tempted to throw the first person they see to the ground, tie the tourniquet on him, slash him with the knife, and apply suction to the wound. -- Jon Bentley %% Unfortunately, the troll can't hear you. %% Unfortunately, we've run out of poles. Therefore, in punishment for your transgression, we shall deprive you of all your valuables, and of your life. %% Unfortunately, you don't know how to fly. %% Unfortunately, you don't seem to be made of asbestos. %% Unfortunately, you have managed to destroy it by your reckless actions. BOOOOOOOOOM %% Unfortunately, you were holding it at the time. %% Unicorns aren't mythical--virgins are! %% Unified Field Theory, by Tim Joseph In the beginning there was Aristotle, And objects at rest tended to remain at rest, And objects in motion tended to come to rest, And soon everything was at rest, And God saw that it was boring. Then God created Newton, And objects at rested tended to remain at rest, But objects in motion tended to remain in motion, And energy was conserved and momentum was conserved and matter was conserved, And God saw that it was conservative. The God created Einstein, And everything was relative, And fast things became short, And straight things became curved, And the universe was filled inertial frames, And God saw that it was relatively general, but some of it was especially relative. Then God created Bohr, And there was the principle, And the principle was quantum, And all things were quantified, But some things were still relative, And God saw that it was confusing. Then God was going to creat Furgeson, And Furgeson would have unified, And he would have fielded a theory, And all would have been one, But it was the seventh day, And God rested, And objects at rest tend to remain at rest. %% Universal Tech Document Units Law: Characteristics, specifications, dimensions and any other data included in technical documents must be stated in exotic units, such as tenth of troy once per barn for pressures, or acre times atmosphere per kilogram for speeds. %% Universal suffrage is the government of a house by its nursery. -- Otto von Bismarck %% Universities are places of knowledge. The freshman each bring a little in with them, and the seniors take none away, so knowledge accumulates. %% Universities are storehouses of knowledge. Freshmen bring little in; Graduates take none away. Therefore it accumulates. %% Unix and the world Unix with you; VAX and you VAX alone. %% Unix is a lot more complicated (than CP/M) of course -- the typical Unix hacker can never remember what the PRINT command is called this week--but when it gets right down to it, Unix is a glorified video game. People don't do serious work on Unix systems; they send jokes around the world on USENET or write adventure games and research papers. -- E. Post, "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal", Datamation, 7/83 %% Unix is the worst operating system; except for all others. -- Berry Kercheval %% Unix programmers do it with pipes. %% Unix will self-destruct in five seconds... 4... 3... 2... 1... %% Unix wizards do it with unchecked conversions. %% Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -- Karl Lehenbauer, karl@hackercorp.com %% Unix: it's a nice place to live, but you wouldn't want to visit there. -- someone on usenet %% Unkind words do not enhance business confidence. -- Mark Epernay %% Unknowingly, we plow the dust of stars, blown about us by the wind, and drink the universe in a glass of rain. -- Ihab Hassan %% Unknown symbol. %% Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair, hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day. I wasted time and now doth time waste me. -- William Shakespeare %% Unless the specification states otherwise, we must assume that circuit delay varies in accordance with changes in supply voltage, ambient temperature, time, and the Dow Jones index. -- J. H. Haynes %% Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense -- E. E. Cummings (1894-1963) %% Unless you put your money to work for you -- you work for your money. -- Joe Miller %% Unlike stupidity, genius has its limits. %% Unrecognized faults lead to wasted efforts -- Joanot Martorell, "Tirant lo Blanc", 1490 %% Until his own life is at stake, an officer can never know what is going on with his own men. %% Until people grow up, they have no idea what's cool %% Until philosophers are kings ... cities will never cease from ill, nor the human race. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.) %% Until the local cop, cherrytop rips this holy night. %% Until you start plowing pertinent wives, you really aren't working. The way to a man's heart is through his wife's belly and don't you forget it. -- Edward Albee %% Untold suffering seldom is. %% Unwanted Growth You said you could not give me what I sought. Your heart "had reasons reason cannot know." The answer was no more than what I thought. But still I had to ask you: aye or no. A time there was when I would silent wait Until an answer would, unbidden, come. But then I learned the price, though much too late Of hiding what I felt, remaining dumb. We do not choose the turnings of the heart; I must confess I once stood in your place. I cannot blame you if you hold apart For fear of what you might see in my face. But know one thing. Whatever may obtain, I started as your friend - and shall remain. %% Unwanted mail? Sell it to the bookshop! %% Up against the net, redneck mother, Mother who has raised your son so well; He's seventeen and hackin' on a Macintosh, Flaming spelling errors and raisin' hell... %% Up against the wall!!! %% Up against the wall, buddy. %% Up and at 'em, Atom Ant. %% Up with miniskirts!!! %% Upload : A group of tourists on their way to the observation deck of the Sears Tower. %% Upon encountering happiness: Be wary at such times, since most of life's blows fall then. %% Upon leaving a hotel bar one evening, an executive noticed a drunk sitting on the edge of a potted palm in the lobby, crying like a baby. Because he'd had a couple himself that night, and was feeling rather sorry for his fellow man, he asked the inebriated one what the trouble was. "I did a terrible thing tonight," sniffled the drunk. "I sold my wife to a guy for a bottle of Scotch." "That is terrible," said the man, too much under the weather to muster any real indignation. "And now that she's gone, you wish you had her back." "Thas right," said the drunk, still sniffling. "You're sorry you sold her, because you realize too late that you love her," sympathized the executive. "No, no," said the drunk. "I wish I had her back because I'm thirsty again." %% Upon the dead waters the last leaf finally sinks %% Uppers are no longer stylish, methedrine is almost as rare as pure acid or DMT. "Consciousness Expansion" went out with LBJ and it is worth noting, historically, that downers came in with Nixon. -- Dr. Hunter S. Thompson %% Uppity Women Unite %% Uptown - Downtown, no one's fussy I'm a target. Black, white - day, night - no one's fussy I'm a target. I know I'm no special, but any part of town, someone could smile at me then ... shake my hand then ... gun me down. -- Joe Jackson - Night and Day %% Urban Cowboy; Urbane Cowboy. %% Urine: Opposite of you're out. %% Urquhart Castle was doomed to dissolve. %% Us nature mystics got to stick together. -- Edward Abbey %% Usage: fortune -P [-f] -a [xsz] Q: file [rKe9] -v6[+] file1 ... %% Use Computers to Take Over the Word. %% Use DEVICE=EXXON to screw up your environment. %% Use GOTOs only to implement a fundamental structure. %% Use IF...ELSE IF...ELSE IF...ELSE... to implement multi-way branches. %% Use a bigger stick. %% Use a different editor. %% Use a larger hammer. %% Use a smile. %% Use debugging compilers. %% Use every man after his deserts, and who shall 'scape whipping. -- William Shakespeare %% Use free-form input where possible. %% Use it up ... Wear it out. Make it do ... Or do without. -- US World War II Message %% Use library functions. %% Use no medicine in an illness Incurred through no fault of your own. It will pass of itself. %% Use only as directed. %% Use only in well-ventilated area. %% Use other side for additional listings. %% Use the Force, Luke. %% Use the semicolon properly, always use it where it is appropriate; and never where it isn't. %% Use unleaded fuel only. %% Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. -- Henry van Dyke %% Use your Turn Signals: if I were psychic, I'd have known not to be on the road with you in the first place. %% Useful Farsi phrases for Americans traveling to Iran: AKBAR KHALI-KILI HAFTIR LOTFAN. Thank you for showing me your marvelous gun. FEKR GABUL CARDAN DAVAT PAEH GUSH DIVAR. I am delighted to accept your kind invitation to lie down on the floor with my arms above my head and my legs apart. SHOMAEH FEKR TAMOMEH QEH GOFTEH BANDE. I agree with everything you have ever said or thought in your life. %% Usefulness is inversely proportional to reputation for being useful. -- Daniel S. Greenberg %% Useless as windshield wipers on a duck's ass. %% User-friendly: Supplied with a full color manual. Very user-friendly: Supplied with an on-disk and audiotape tutorial, so the user needn't bother with the full color manual. Extremely user-friendly: Supplied with a mouse so that the user needn't bother with the on-disk and audiotape tutorial, the full color manual, or the program itself. %% Users, losers -- what's the difference? %% Ushers do it in the dark. %% Using this fantastically, diabolically anti-me language... let them just stay tuned in. -- President George Bush, on his China-policy critics %% Usually a person has to go to a bowling alley to find a woman of your stature. %% Usurer: A money-lender. He serves you in the present tense; he tends you in the conditional mood; keeps you in the subjunctive; and ruins you in the future. -- Addison %% Utopia has banned neurosis -- Punishes illegal thought. The people nurse, in static poses, Neurotic fears of being caught. %% VACATION: A two-week binge of rest and relaxation so intense that it takes another 50 weeks of your restrained workaday life-style to recuperate. %% VALGOL (With special thanks to Dan and Betsy 'Moon Unit' Pfau) From its modest beginnings in southern California's San Fernando Valley, VALGOL is enjoying a dramatic surge of popularity across the industry. VALGOL commands include REALLY, LIKE, WELL, and Y$KNOW. Variables are assigned with the =LIKE and =TOTALLY operators. Other operators include the 'CALIFORNIA BOOLEANS': FERSURE and NOWAY. Repetitions of code are handled in FOR-SURE loops. Here is a sample VALGOL program: 14 LIKE, Y$KNOW (I MEAN) START %% IF PI A =LIKE BITCHEN AND 01 B =LIKE TUBULAR AND 9 C =LIKE GRODY**MAX 4K (FERSURE)**2 18 THEN 4I FOR I=LIKE 1 TO OH MAYBE 100 86 DO WAH + (DITTY**2) 9 BARF(I) =TOTALLY GROSS(OUT) -17 SURE 1F LIKE BAG THIS PROGRAM ? REALLY $$ LIKE TOTALLY (Y*KNOW) VALGOL is characterized by its unfriendly error messages. For example, when the user makes a syntax error, the interpreter displays the message, GAG ME WITH A SPOON! %% VAN OECH'S LAW: An expert doesn't know more than you do. He is merely better organized and has slides. %% VAX - Long-haired cousins of the buffalo, used as beasts of burden in Tibet. %% VAX AND THE SINGLE GIRL - A relationship with much potential. %% VAX ATTACKS -- Why the VAX never stays up for more than one day. (Hear attack equiv.) %% VAX BUILDUP - The result of not using the file delete command often enough. %% VAX FLAX -- What keeps your VAX together. %% VAX POPULI - The users. %% VAX-CARS - What GM doesn't make. %% VAX-FREE BOND - A special relation with a non-VAX computer on Wall street. %% VAX-MAS - The day the VAX comes in. %% VAX-RAY - A high-energy screening to determine whether a user is qualified to have a VAX I/O station on his floor. %% VAX-WAGEN - What everyone jumps on after the VAX is approved. %% VAXACHUSETS - DEC country. %% VAXCELERATE - To increase productivity by using the VAX. %% VAXCENTUATE - To underline the importance of the VAX. %% VAXCIDENT - The spilling of coffee on a VAX terminal. %% VAXCILLATE - To oscillate between possible ways to administer VAX training. %% VAXCINATION - A "Preventive training" provided to potential users of the VAX system to prevent software foul-ups other than deliberate. %% VAXCINE - What you're going to need to get your VAX back running. %% VAXCINE - An abbreviation for "I have seen the VAX!" %% VAXCITEMENT - The state of mind aroused by receiving a new VAX. %% VAXCULPATE - To forgive one for spending time on one's GLUTEUS VAXIMUS thinking of VAXIOMS. %% VAXECUTION - The denial to a user of future access to the VAX. %% VAXENOPHOBIA - Fear of non-VAX computers. %% VAXERCISE - An early morning workout on the VAX. %% VAXI! VAXI! - A cry heard and unheeded by cruising VAX personnel as they go around the corridors, hailed by frantic users-to-be who desire a high-tech ride on the VAX. %% VAXIDERMIST - One who lives by the dictum "You can take the VAX and stuff it!" %% VAXILE -- Where you'll be if the VAXCINE doesn't work. %% VAXIMA - The height of ecstasy reached while computing on the VAX. Also (archaic): Mother of VAX. %% VAXIMUM - Keeping silent to the max about startup of the VAX. %% VAXING AND WAILING - VAXing is the successful use of the VAX during a full moon. Wailing is the less successful alternative during other lunar phases. %% VAXIOM - A true (or VAXUAL) statement. As Jack Webb always said, "Just give us the VAX, Ma'am." %% VAXIS - What the world of computers rotates on. %% VAXLE - That to which the wheels of the VAX are attached. %% VAXMAN - One who wields a VAX, often the SYSMGR. %% VAXONERATED - The honor of DEC. %% VAXPIN -- Opposite of forespin. %% VAXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES - The generic excuse used to explain delays in delivery of the VAX. %% VAXTERMINATION - The perennial zapping of mysterious files from the VAX. %% VAXUUM - A computer room without a VAX. Abhorred by nature. %% VD: The gift that keeps on giving. %% VEDI, VENI, VAXI - The victory cry - "I saw, I Conquered, The VAX came! %% VERITAS AETERNA -- DON'T SETQ T. %% VICARIOUSLY experience some reason to LIVE!! %% VIRGINIA: A group of beautifully mounted hunters galloping behind baying hounds in pursuit of a union organizer. %% VLSI: "Getting High On Low Voltage" %% VM system programmers do it virtually all the time %% VMS lives! %% VMS must die! %% VMS version 2.0 ==> %% VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS keep it up. %% VOLUNTEER SUBJECT: A college sophomore who, of his or her own free will, is allowed to choose between participating in an experiment or failing a course. %% VS LBH PNA'G ERNQ GUVF, LBH NER CEBONOYL ABG N PBZCHGVFG. %% VU-JADE: The feeling that you've *never* been in this situation before. %% Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X %% Vacillating people seldom succeed. They seldom win the solid respect of their fellow men. Successful men and women are very careful in reaching decisions and very persistent and determined in action thereafter. -- L. G. Elliott %% Vacuum Tube - a derogatory term - see 'bubble memory'. %% Vacuum cleaner - A collective noun. On a Texas restaurant menu - Remember the a` la mode! %% Valley girl, she's a valley girl ... %% Valuable insights and your persuasive ability achieve results. %% Vampires hate garlic. %% Van Roy's Law: Honesty is the best policy - there's less competition. %% Van Roy's Truism: Life is a whole series of circumstances beyond your control. %% Vance's Rule of 2 1/2: Any military project will take twice as long as planned, cost twice as much, and produce only half of what is wanted. -- Cyrus Vance %% Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. %% Variables won't, constants aren't. -- Don Osborn %% Varicose veins: Veins that are quite close to each other. %% Vastly improved review and control will result by promoting the most productive engineers to management positions. -- Richard F. Moore %% Vatican Rag! Gettin' ecstatic and sorta dramatic Doin' the Vatican Rag! Get in line in that processional. Step into that small confessional Where the man who's got religion'll Tell you if you sin's original. If it is try playin' it safer; Drink the wine and chew the wafer. Two, four, six, eight, Time to transubstantiate. -- Tom Lehrer %% Vault guards always make sure you aren't a shopkeeper. %% Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself. -- William Shakespeare %% Vax Vobiscum %% Vaya con Dios, -- A common Spanish phrase. I think. %% Ve are lookink for a nuclear-powered wessel! %% Veal-fattening Pen: Small, cramped office workstation built of fabric-covered disassemblable wall partitions and inhabited by junior staff members. named after the small preslaughter vubicles used by the cattle industry. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X %% Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness. -- Sir Robert Hutchinson (1871-1960) %% Vegetarians beware! You are what you eat. %% Vegetative propagation is the process by which one individual manufactures another individual by accident. %% Velleity (vuh-LEE-ity), n. A mere wish, unaccompanied by an effort to obtain it. %% Veni Vidi Visa: I came, I saw, I did a little shopping. %% Veni, vidi, Visa. (We came, we saw, we went shopping.) -- Jan Barrett %% Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs at one go. -- Truman Capote %% Venn ist das nurnstuck git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beigerhund das oder die Flipperwaldt gersput! -- Monty Python %% Ventriloquists do it with ther mouths closed. %% Venture not to the utmost bounds of even lawful pleasure; the limits of good and evil join. -- Fuller %% Venus Goddess of love Female .No satellites (Geographic features named for famous or mytho-) (logical women ) %% Verb doubling: a standard construction is to double a verb and use it as a comment on what the implied subject does. Often used to terminate a conversation. Typical examples involve WIN, LOSE, HACK, FLAME, BARF, CHOMP: "The disk heads just crashed." "Lose, lose." "Mostly he just talked about his --- crock. Flame, flame." "Boy, what a bagbiter! Chomp, chomp!" %% Verbosity! Verbosity! Reflections of pomposity! My lexicon has possibly Become a cruel monstrosity! Verbosity! Verbosity! It's almost an atrocity That my labial velocity Is met with animosity! -- "Perfektion" %% Verily it is said, there is nobody true revolutionaries hate so much as the man who hints that paradise might be possible without the revolution. Or, as Santayana put it: "fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim". %% Version 1.0 - Buggier than Maine in June, eats data. Version 1.1 - Eats data only occasionally, upgrades free to avoid litigation by disgruntled users of Version 1.0. Version 2.0 - Version originally planned as the first release [except for a couple of data-eating bugs that just won't seem to go away], no free upgrades or the company would go bankrupt. Version 3.0 - The revision in the works when the company goes bankrupt. Now available - Available any day now. Available soon - Should be out within a year. Available May 1st - Version 1.0 may ship to dealers August 1st. %% Version 1.1 - Eats data only occasionally, upgrades free to avoid litigation by disgruntled users of Version 1.0. %% Version 2.0 - Version originally planned as the first release [except for a couple of data-eating bugs that just won't seem to go away], no free upgrades or the company would go bankrupt. %% Version 3.0 - The revision in the works when the company goes bankrupt. %% Vertical fragmentation is an inescapable part of technological progress. If we compare the 8085 to the 80386 or a MIPS RISC CPU, we can hardly expect to transparently preserve our entire intellectual investment in the 8085 when we move up to new hardware with vastly greater underlying capability. The bloodshed involved in upgrading is highly variable. Since computers are in theory general-purpose information processors, with the appropriate software tools the user can "mine" old information and use it on new hardware. Nonetheless, when hardware advances become revolutionary enough we eventually have to throw out some of our old standards. In this case we face a clear trade between the cost of junking our investment in our earlier ways of doing things vs. foregoing the potential benefits of new and better hardware. The bigger the previous investment, the bigger the benefits of upgrading have to be before vertical fragmentation is justifiable. -- Dan Mocsny (dmocsny@uceng.uc.edu) %% Very few things actually get manufactured these days, because in an infinitely large Universe, such as the one in which we live, most things one could possibly imagine, and a lot of things one would rather not, grow somewhere. A forest was discovered recently in which most of the trees grew ratchet screwdrivers as fruit. The life cycle of the ratchet screwdriver is quite interesting. Once picked it needs a dark dusty drawer in which it can lie undisturbed for years. Then one night it suddenly hatches, discards its outer skin that crumbles into dust, and emerges as a totally unidentifiable little metal object with flanges at both ends and a sort of ridge and a hole for a screw. This, when found, will get thrown away. No one knows what the screwdriver is supposed to gain from this. Nature, in her infinite wisdom, is presumably working on it. %% Very good. Now you can go to the second grade. %% Very large doses of radiation could release power hidden in your dormant genes. %% Very soon ... And in pleasant company. %% Very user-friendly - Supplied with an on-disk and audiotape tutorial, so the user needn't bother with the full color manual. %% Vests are to suits as seat-belts are to cars. %% Veterinarians drive like animals. %% Vice repeated like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes. -- William Shakespeare %% Vice stings us even in our pleasures, but virtue consoles us, even in our pains. -- Colton %% Victims of Circumstance %% Victory finds a hundred fathers, but failure is an orphan. %% Victory goes to the candidate with the most accumulated or contributed wealth who has the financial sources to convince the middle class and poor that he will be on their side. -- Mark B. Cohen %% Victory uber allies! %% Videotex : The largest commercial purveyor of VCRs and televisions in Dallas. %% Vidi, vici, veni! -- Don Juan %% Vidi, vici, veni. (I saw, I conquered, I came.) %% Vietnam. -- Spiro T. Agnew %% Vigilia pretium libertatis. (Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.) %% Vila: "This is stupid." Avon: "When did that ever stop us?" %% Villian, thou know'st no law of God or man; No beast so fierce, but knows some touch of pity. -- William Shakespeare %% Vini, Vidi, Hacki (I came, I saw, I hacked) %% Vini, vidi, vici [I came, I saw, I conquered]. -- Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 B.C.) %% Violence always settles everything %% Violence is a sword that has no handle -- you have to hold the blade. %% Violence is molding. %% Violence is the last word of the illiterate. Also the first. -- Solomon Short %% Violence never settles anything. -- Genghis Khan (1162-1227) %% Violence on television only affects children whose parents act like television personalities. %% Violent Femmes %% Violinists can stick it under their chin. %% Violinists do it with long strokes. %% Virgin Runway: A travel destination chosen in the hopes that no one else has chosen it. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X %% Virgin, n.: An ugly third grader. %% Virginia prohibits that any person willfully and negligently permit any unhaltered horse of the age of more than one year to accompany him into any place of public worship. %% Virginity can be cured. %% Virginity can be lost by a thought. -- St. Jerome (340?-420) %% Virginity has it's own rewards - loneliness. %% Virginity is a bubble on the sea of life, which takes but one prick to break. -- Jordan Sand %% Virgo (Aug 22 - Sept 22) : Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo, B. B. King, Bob Newhart, Twiggy, Meryl Streep, George Montgomery, Yvonne DeCarlo %% Virtual is its own reward. %% Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice -- only the willingness to make it when necessary. -- Frederick Dunn %% Virtue is its own revenge. -- E. Y. Harburg %% Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius %% Virtue itself often offends when coupled with bad manners. -- Middleton %% Virtue would go far if vanity did not keep it company. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% Visas erat: huic geminarum Dispar modus testicularum: Minor haec nihili, Palma triplici, Jam fecerat altera clarum. %% Vision without work is daydreaming. Work without vision is drudgery. Vision and work together is success. %% Visit Scenic Gyronchi %% Visit beautiful Vergas Minnesota. %% Visit beautiful Wisconsin Dells. %% Visit your mother today. Maybe she hasn't had any problems lately. %% Visitors are requested not to apply genocide to shopkeepers. %% Vivian Smith-Smythe-Smith - he's an accrediter guard and can count up to four. Simon Zinc-Trumpet Harris - he's an old Italian and married to a very attractive table lamp. Nigel Incubator Jones - his best friend is a tree and in his spare time he's a stockbroker. Germaise Brooke-Hamster - he's in the wine trade and his father uses him as a wastepaper basket. Oliver Singin-Mollusk - another old Italian, his father was in the cabinet and his mother won the Darby and he is considered by many to be this year's outstanding twit. %% Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff. -- Edward Abbey %% Vodka is the best way to cook potatoes. You get all the flavor of the potato and don't even have to put in your false teeth. -- Albert Engstrom %% Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters. %% Void where prohibited or taxed. %% Volcano -- a mountain with hiccups. %% Volcanos have a grandeur that is grim And earthquakes only terrify the dolts, And to him who's scientific There is nothing that's terrific In the pattern of a flight of thunderbolts! -- William S. Gilbert (1836-1911), "The Mikado" %% Volley Theory: It is better to have lobbed and lost than never to have lobbed at all. %% Volume is a defense to error. -- Richard A. Leahy %% Voluntary retreat brings good fortune to the superior man And downfall to the inferior man. %% Voodoo Programming: Things programmers do that they know shouldn't work but they try anyway, and which sometimes actually work, such as recompiling everything. -- Karl Lehenbauer, karl@hackercorp.com %% Vote as an individual; lemmings end up falling off cliffs. Camaraderie is no substitute for common sense, and being your own man will make you sleep better. -- Pierre S. du Pont %% Vote early and vote often. -- Anonymous, on US election banners, 1850's %% Voter's Block: The attempt, however futile, to register dissent with the current political system by simply not voting. -- Douglas Coupland, Generation X %% Voters do not decide issues. They decide *who* will decide issues. -- George F. Will, in "Newsweek", 1976 %% Voters quickly forget what a man says. -- Richard Nixon %% Voting is the least arduous of a citizen's duties. He has the prior and harder duty of making up his mind. -- Ralph Barton Perry %% Votre bateau arriverez. %% Voulez-vous coucher avec moi, ce soir ? %% Vox populi, vox humbug. -- William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891) %% Vuilleumier's Fifth Law: Prototype npn blackboxes actually hold pnp transistors, and vice-versa. %% Vuilleumier's First Law: Any pre-cut equipment is too short. This is specially true of optic fiber cables with expensive connectors at both ends. %% Vuilleumier's Fourth Law: When proteup first, thankfully leaving the fuses intact. %% Vuilleumier's Second Law: If n electronic components are required, n-1 are available. %% Vuilleumier's Seventh Law: When the prototype has been fully assembled according to lab instructions, a minimum of 11 components are left. %% Vuilleumier's Sixth Law: A quartz oscillator oscillates at a frequency off the rated one by a minimum of 25% if it does oscillate at all. %% Vuilleumier's Third Law (also known as Selective Gravitational Field): Any tool escaping manipulator's hands will not necessarily follow Earth's gravitational field, but will land in the most unreachable location in the prototype, smashing on its way the most expensive component of the prototype. This will know only one exception if the tool is particularly heavy, in which case it will land on the manipulator's foot. %% Vuja de... That feeling that you've never been here before. %% Vulcans have less fun. %% Vultures only fly with carrion luggage. %% W. C. Fields is alive and drunk in Philadelphia. %% W/M, 35, offers French lessons for ladies. If you desire fluency in the French tongue, this cunning linguist can lick your problem. Fortune P.O. Box 478. %% W: "What are you doing home?" M: "I was fired." W: "Fired? But you've been working at that pickle factory for twenty years! How did you get fired?" M: "I stuck my dick in the pickle slicer." Horrified, the woman runs to him, pulls down his pants, and inspects the equipment. W: (bewildered) "But there's nothing wrong here -- what happened to the pickle slicer?" M: "They fired her too." %% WAIN'S CONCLUSION: He who gets too big for his britches gets exposed in the end. %% WAITER! there's soup in my fly! %% WAITRESSES serve it piping hot. %% WALT DISNEY IS NOT DEAD! He's in suspended animation. %% WALTON'S LAW: A fool and his money are soon elected. %% WARNING ... drinking tap water can kill your thirst! %% WARNING from H.M. Govt: Quaffing may be dangerous to your health. %% WARNING!!! This machine is subject to breakdowns during periods of critical need. A special circuit in the machine called "critical detector" senses the operator's emotional state in terms of how desperate he/she is to use the machine. The "critical detector" then creates a malfunction proportional to the desperation of the operator. Threatening the machine with violence only aggravates the situation. Likewise, attempts to use another machine may cause it to malfunction. They belong to the same union. Keep cool and say nice things to the machine. Nothing else seems to work. See also: flog(1), tm(1) %% WARNING: TESTS HAVE SHOWN THAT THE FOLLOWING JOKE IS ONLY EFFECTIVE IF TOLD ORALLY. THEREFORE, DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LAUGH AT IT YOURSELF--SNIP IT OUT, MEMORIZE IT, AND TELL IT TO SOMEBODY ELSE IN REAL LIFE. At a banquet of the American Nosoapers Convention, a man is astonished to see the man next to him dip his hands in mayonnaise and run them through his hair. "Why on earth did you do that?" he asked. The other man looks at him. Suddenly, a wave of realization passes over his face. "Oh, I'm so sorry," he said. "I thought it was spinach!" %% WARNING: my messages are offensive to morons! %% WARP 6 A Law We Can Live With %% WARSH: to clean with water. "Go warsh yur hands!" -- Texan Dictionary %% WASP: Someone who gets out of the shower to take a piss. %% WATER SKIERS come down harder. %% WATERBOTTLE SOCCER n. A deadly sport practiced mainly by Sussman's graduate students. It, along with chair bowling, is the most evident manifestation of the "locker room atmosphere" said to reign in that sphere. (Sussman doesn't approve.) [As of 11/82, it's reported that the sport has given way to a new game called "disc-boot", and Sussman even participates occasionally.] %% WE HAVE A TIE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! %% WE'RE GOING TO THROW THE MX AWAY AFTER WE BUILD IT. The MX is really [Don't tell anybody!] just a "bargaining chip" in the nuclear-arms- reduction talks with the Russians. See, we have a problem with the Russians. They look at our leaders and they see, for example, George Bush, who is really a fine and brave man but who happens to have this unfortunate physical characteristic whereby when he talks he sounds as though he just inhaled a helium party balloon. If he ever becomes President, the Russians will deliberately create nuclear crises just so they can gather around the Hot Line with refreshments and listen to George talk. -- Dave Barry, "At Last, the Ultimate Deterrent Against Political Fallout" %% WE'VE GOT YOU NOW!! This fortune was poisoned. If a second your eyes will start gniyalp t#r*i%c"k!s oN uoy. %% WE: The single most important word in the world. %% WEAPON: An index of the lack of development of a culture. %% WELCOME TO LOS ANGELES NOW GO HOME %% WELDERS have hotter rods. %% WELFARE You're too incompetent to work for a living. [We'll let you leach off those who do earn a living.] -- George L Roman, george@sgi.com %% WELL-ADJUSTED: The ability to play bridge or golf as if they were games. %% WET DREAM: Overnight sensation. %% WHAT DO ETHIOPIANS USE FOR BUNK BEDS ? VENETIAN BLNDS %% WHAT DO MIDGETS USE FOR BIRTH CONTROL ????? condominiums %% WHAT DO YOU CALL AN ETHIOPIAN IN A DINNER JACKET? OPTIMIST %% WHAT DO YOU CALL AN ETHIOPIAN WALKING 2 DOGS? A CATERER %% WHAT DO YOU CALL AN ETHIOPIAN WALKING A DOG ? A VEGETARIAN %% WHAT DO YOU DO WITH 365 USED CONDOMS???????????????????????? MELT THEM DOWN ...MOLD THEM INTO A TIRE..AND CALL IT A GOOD YEAR !! %% WHATS THE FASTEST LAND ANIMAL IN ETHIOPIA ? A CHICKEN %% WHITEHEAD'S RULE: Seek simplicity, and distrust it. %% WHO IS THE PATRON SAINT OF ETHIOPIA? KAREN CARPENTER %% WHY CUCUMBERS ARE BETTER THAN MEN: The average cucumber is at least six inches long. A cucumber won't tell you that size doesn't count. A cucumber never suffers from performance anxiety. A cucumber will never leave you for another woman. Cucumbers stay hard for a week. Cucumbers don't get TOO excited. Cucumbers are easy to pick up. It's easy to drop a cucumber. No matter how old you are, you can always get a fresh cucumber. With a cucumber, you never have to say you're sorry. You always know where your cucumber has been. Cucumbers don't leave you wondering for a month. You can eat a cucumber when YOU feel like it. A cucumber doesn't care if you're a virgin. No matter how you slice it, you can have your cucumber and it it too. %% WISDOM: "Travelling unarmed is like boating without a life jacket" %% WOLF: A man who knows all the ankles. %% WOMAN.ZIP... Great program but no documentation. %% WOMAN: "Is Yoo-Hoo hyphenated?" YOGI BERRA: "No, ma'am, its not even carbonated." %% WOMEN: Weird Obnoxious Male Enticing Nymphs %% WOODSIDE'S GROCERY PRINCIPLE: The bag that breaks has the eggs. %% WOOF: doglike animal. "Who's afraid of the big bad woof?" -- Texan Dictionary %% WORK: The blessed respite from screaming kids and soap operas for which you actually get paid. %% WRAB Programming: "KEY GRIP (1 hr -- Drama) Part three of Patrick McGoohan's `John Drake' Trilogy. Series security prohibits any information release prior to broadcast. (Emph: the struggle for individualism)." -- From Matt Howarth's WRAB: PIRATE TELEVISION, which you should buy immediately %% WRAB Programming: "THE CHURCH OF GODZILLA (1/2 hr -- religion) Instruction in the eager belief of getting one's way all the time. John Madden as Godzilla. (Emph: narrow-mindedness)." -- From Matt Howarth's WRAB: PIRATE TELEVISION, which you should buy immediately %% WRESTLERS know the best holds. %% WRITERS have novel ways. %% WRONG! %% WUNST: at one time. "Ah used ta node her wunst!" -- Texan Dictionary %% WW I GIs did it over there. %% WWhhaatt ddooeess dduupplleexx mmeeaann?? %% WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get. %% WYSZOWSKY'S SECOND LAW: No experiment is reproduceable. %% WYTYSYDG-What you thought you saw, you didn't get. %% Waco means the government can kill anyone it doesn't like and get a 94% approval rating. -- Jeff Chan, chan@shell.portal.com %% Wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursels as others see us. -- Odgen Nash (1902-1971) %% Wagner did it for hours. %% Wah! Devil machine make numbers come out! With text! In tabular report format! Computers! Bad juju! %% Wait and hope. -- A White House official, describing the president's economic plan, November 1990. On the backup plan: ``There isn't one.'' %% Wait for that wisest of all counselors, Time. -- Pericles %% Waiters and waitresses do it for tips. %% Waiting at meat and drink. Perseverance brings good fortune. %% Waiting for the winds of change to sweep the clouds away. Waiting for the rainbow's end to cast its gold your way. Countless ways, you pass the days. Waiting for someone to come and turn your world around. Looking for an answer to the questions you have found. Looking for an open door. Well, you don't get something for nothing. You can't have freedom for free. You won't get wise with the sleep still in your eyes, No matter what your dream might be. -- Neil Peart, Rush %% Waiting in blood. Get out of the pit. %% Waiting in the meadow. It furthers one to abide in what endures. No blame. %% Waiting in the mud Brings about the arrival of the enemy. %% Waiting on the sand. There is some gossip. The end brings good fortune. %% Waiting. If you are sincere, You have light and success. Perseverance brings good fortune. It furthers one to cross the great water. %% Wake up all you citizens, hear your country's call, Not to arms and violence, But peace for one and all. Crush out hate and prejudice, fear and greed and sin, Help bring back her dignity, restore her faith again. Work hard for a common cause, don't let our country fall. Make her proud and strong again, democracy for all. Yes, make our country strong again, keep our flag unfurled. Make our country well again, respected by the world. Make her whole and beautiful, work from sun to sun. Stand tall and labor side by side, because there's so much to be done. Yes, make her whole and beautiful, united strong and free, Wake up, all you citizens, It's up to you and me. -- Pansy Myers Schroeder %% Wake up and smell the coffee. -- Ann Landers %% Wake up to a brand new day to find your dreams have washed away. %% Wake up, America. -- Augustus P. Gardner %% Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love" %% Walk at a fast pace when out of the office -- this keeps questions from subordinates and superiors at a minimum. %% Walk softly and carry a big stick. -- Theodore Roosevelt %% Walking in the midst of others, One returns alone. %% Walking on water wasn't built in a day. -- Jack Kerouac %% Walls are visible at the extremes of your vision to south and west. There is a small entranceway in the south wall. %% Walt: Dad, what's gradual school? Garp: Gradual school? Walt: Yeah. Mom says her work's more fun now that she's teaching gradual school. Garp: Oh. Well, gradual school is someplace you go and gradually find out that you don't want to go to school anymore. -- The World According To Garp %% Walter Shandy attributed most of his son's misfortunes to the fact that at a highly critical moment his wife had asked him if he had wound the clock, a question so irrelevant that he despaired of the child's ever being able to pursue a logical train of thought. -- Lawrence Sterne %% Walters' Rule: All airline flights depart from the gates most distant from the center of the terminal. Nobody ever had a reservation on a plane that left Gate 1. %% Wandering punster %% Wanders over the meadow all day long, With a nice little tongue but cannot speak, And goes to the water, but cannot drink. A cowbell %% Wanna buy a duck? %% Wanna flirt with disaster? Become a SysOp! %% Wanna fly? Eat a bat. %% Want a BABY RUTH candy bar - you know - the one they named after the famous slugger? Well it's not so. BABY RUTH was actually named after the oldest daughter of President Grover Cleveland. %% Want a LAUGH run a spell check on DSZ docs. %% Want a jelly baby? %% Want a stupid answer? Ask me anything! %% Want a thing long enough, and you don't. %% Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue; nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty? -- Oliver Goldsmith %% Want some candy little girl? %% Want to know the meaning of life? Just call Griswoldo, your friendly neighborhood guru. Dial (818) 902-9544 for an appointment today. Master Charge, Visa and American Express accepted. %% Wanted - Man to wash dishes and two waitresses. %% Wanted: Volcano. Average size. Must be active. %% Wanting to convert to the Catholic faith, Sam Goldstein was allowed to join the Church under the condition that he would, henceforth, obey all the laws governing the Catholicism. "Remember," warned the priest, "you also are not allowed to eat meat on Fridays." "Yes, Father, I'll remember," Sammy promised as he left his last class. The Father, concerned about his new convert, decided to drop in on Sam that next Friday to see how he was doing. After being admitted into the house, he was shocked to see Sam eating a huge steak. "What is this? Did you forget your promise? This is Friday. You're suppose abstain from eating meat on Fridays. What do you have to say for yourself?" the priest asked imperiously. "Meat? Who's eating meat?" asked Sam blandly. "This is gefilte fish." "You must take me for a fool!" snapped the outraged priest. "How can anyone make fish out of meat?" "The same way the Church makes a Catholic out of a Jew," answered the convert smoothly. "I sprinkled holy water on it." %% War News: Sadam's army blown away by Thai hookers. %% War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to face it. -- Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) %% War destroys mem, but luxury mankind At once corrupts the body and the mind. -- Crown %% War does not determine who is right... it only determines who is left! -- "Iolo" %% War is an equal opportunity destroyer. %% War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that Nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. -- John Stuart Mill %% War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. -- Desiderius Erasmus (1465-1536) %% War is its own punishment. %% War is menstruation envy. %% War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. -- Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) %% War is much too serious to be left to the generals. -- Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) %% War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength. -- George Orwell (1903-1950), "1984" %% War may be Hell... but it's good for business. -- The Association for Merchants, Manufacturers, and Morticians %% War spares not the brave, but the cowardly. -- Anacreon %% War will cease when men refuse to fight. -- Fridtjof Hansen %% War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other. -- Edward Abbey %% War? The one war I'd be happy to join is the war against officers. -- Edward Abbey %% Ward, I'm worried about the Beaver. %% Warning to Lawyers: Beware of and eschew pompous prolixity. -- Charles A. Beardsley %% Warning: This person reads fantasy and is and avid denier of reality %% Warning: Whimsical when bored %% Warning: Due to the robot shortage, some of our bartenders are human and will react unpredictably when insulted. %% Warning: ECC error count high %% Warning: I brake for hallucinations. %% Warning: Politicians can damage your wealth. %% Warning: Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again. %% Warning: This room was constructed over very weak rock strata. Detonation of explosives in this room is strictly prohibited! FROBOZZ Magic Safe Company !!!! FROBOZZ Magic Balloon Company !!!! Hello, aviator! Instructions for use: To get into the balloon, say 'BOARD' To leave the balloon, say 'DISEMBARK' To land, say 'LAND' Warranty: No warranty is expressed or implied. You're on your own, sport. Good luck! %% Warp Five Mr. Sulu! %% Warranty - An unconditional guarantee that the program purchased is actually included on the disk in the box. %% Warranty and guarantee clauses are voided by payment of the invoice. %% Wars are caused by undefended wealth. -- General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) %% Wars frequently begin ten years before the first shot is fired. -- K. K. V. Casey (1877-?) %% Was it as good for you, as it was for me? %% Was that your wife I saw in that GIF. %% Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles In children's circuses could stay their troubles? There was a time they could cry over books, But time has set its maggot on their track. Under the arc of the sky they are unsafe. What's never known is safest in this life. Under the skysigns they who have no arms Have cleanest hands, and, as the heartless ghost Alone's unhurt, so the blind man sees best. -- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), "Was There A Time" %% Was today really Necessary? %% Was you ever bit by a dead bee? %% Washington [D.C.] is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) %% Washington is a much better place if you are asking questions rather than answering them. -- John Dean %% Washington, D.C., law states that no one shall engage in a pugilistic encounter with a bull. %% Wasn't he a sailor? %% Wasn't he an Indian? %% Wasn't there something about a PASCAL programmer knowing the value of everything and the Wirth of nothing? %% Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. -- Euripides %% Waste your brain, wax your board, and pray for waves! %% Watch all-night Donna Reed reruns until your mind resembles oatmeal. %% Watch it! %% Watch less TV. %% Watch out for cold wave this week. (Or maybe a warm WAC.) %% Watch out for falling cornice stones today. %% Watch out for formal briefings, they often produce an avalanche. (Definition: A high-level snow job of massive and overwhelming proportions. -- Amrom Katz %% Watch out for off-by-one errors. %% Watch out for the old mortar in the rocks in the fourteenth hole trick. %% Watch out where them huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow. -- Frank Zappa %% Watch out! I'm striking a significant Kirby pose! %% Watch the sun come up, breathe fresh air, exercise your body, become a garbage collector! %% Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. -- Harry Emerson Fosdick %% Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. -- Gen. George S. Patton %% Watch your mouth, kid, or you'll find yourself floating home. -- Han Solo %% Watch your step! You are beginning to act competent. %% Watch your steps on staircases. %% Watches are a confidence trick invented by the Swiss. -- Chiun %% Watching television, you'd think we lived at bay, surrounded on all sides by human-seeking germs. We are instructed to spray disinfectant everywhere, into the air of our bedrooms and kitchens and with special energy into bathrooms. In real life, however, disease occurs so infrequently that it has a freakish aspect. -- Lewis Thomas %% Watchman: Small TV, many channel available Crotchman: Only shows porno movies Splotchman: Movies about the blob Skotchman: 3M Product Bulletins Gotchaman: IBM Computer virus news Kochman: Speeches from the mayor of New York Lochman: Hunters of Nessie (the monster...) Machman: USAF News Notchman: Social Security whiners Poachman: 1001 ways to cook an egg Quicheman: For wimps only Roachman: Stories about exterminators Touchman: Pickpocket news Ouchman: Sado-masochism Pouchman: Kangaroo trivia & veterinary Zatchman: Dr. Seuss Channel %% Water + Malt + Hops + Yeast = Satisfaction %% Water balloons? Okay, I guess, for the unimaginative. Try Jell-o balloons. The results can be highly comical... %% Water flows on uninterruptedly and reaches it goal: The image of the Abysmal repeated. Thus the superior man walks in lasting virtue And carries on the business of teaching. %% Water is composed of oxygin ahd hydrogin. Oxygin is pure, but hydrogin is gin and water. %% Water on the mountain: The image of Obstruction. Thus the superior man turns his attention to himself And molds his character. %% Water over Lake: the image of Limitation. Thus the superior man Creates numbers and measure, And examines the nature of virtue and correct conduct. %% Water over fire: the image of the condition In After Completion. Thus the superior man Takes thoughts of misfortune And arms himself against it in advance. %% Water over wood: the image of The Well. Thus the superior man encourages the people at their work, And exhorts them to help one another. %% Wave to your neighbor, Word to your mother. %% Wave upon wave of demented avengers march cheerfully out of obscurity and into the dream. %% Wavering flight over the depths. No blame. %% Waving a # #. %% We ... repeatedly enlarge our instrumentalities without improving our purpose. -- Will Durant %% We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it. -- Stay Fit & Healthy Until You're Dead - Dave Barry %% We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -- Charles Kingsley %% We advocate the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment. We urge the enactment of such measures by the several states as will actually promote temperance, effectively prevent the return of the saloon and bring the liquor traffic into the open under complete supervision and control by the states. -- Democratic National Platform, 1932 %% We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) %% We all dream of being the darling of everybody's darling. %% We all know that art is not truth. Art is the lie that makes us realize truth -- at least the truth that is given us to understand. -- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) %% We all know that no one understands anything that isn't funny. %% We all laughed when a fellow named Ollie Once swore he would screw a young dolly. "For twelve hours, I'll engage'er," And he laid down his wager. We all laughed, but he did it, by golly. %% We all like praise, but a hike in our pay is the best kind of ways. %% We all live in a mellow subroutine. %% We all live in a state of ambitious poverty. -- Decimus Junius Juvenalis %% We all live in a yellow submarine. %% We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. -- Dr. Konrad Adenauer %% We also need to assure that women don't have to worry about getting their jobs back after having a child. -- George Bush, campaigning in 1988. Later, a spokesman said that parents who cannot get unpaid leave ``should look for other jobs''. Now Bush opposes the legislation Congress has passed to accomplish this, while blaming Congress for the inaction of his administration %% We always get bored with those whom we bore. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% We always love those who admire us; we do not always love those whom we admire. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% We always might win ... because the others might lose. %% We always remember best the irrelevant. %% We are agreed. Now, who bells the cat? %% We are all ONE, say the gurus. Aye, I might agree--but one WHAT? -- Edward Abbey %% We are all afraid -- for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. -- Jacob Bronowski %% We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough. -- Niels Bohr (1885-1962) to Albert Einstein %% We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us. -- George Eliot %% We are all born equal... just some of us are more equal than others. %% We are all descendents of Adam and we are all products of racial miscegenation. -- Lester B. Pearson %% We are all dying -- and we're gonna be dead for a long time. %% We are all omnibuses in which our ancestors ride, and every now and then one of them stickes his head out and embarrasses us. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) %% We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause. -- William James %% We are all self-made, but only the rich will admit it. %% We are all so much together and yet we are all dying of loneliness. -- Albert Schweitzer %% We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm. -- Sir Winston S. Churchill %% We are always the same age inside. %% We are anthill men upon an anthill world. -- Ray Bradbury %% We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) %% We are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell. -- Plato (428-348? B.C.) %% We are citizens of the world: and the tragedy of our times is that we do not know this. -- Woodrow Wilson %% We are convinced that ... foreign capital will fulfill the role that Marx predicted for it ... with every additional shovel of coal, with every additional load of oil that we in Russia obtain through the help of foreign technique, capital will be digging its own grave. -- L. B. Kamanev %% We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) %% We are experiencing system trouble -- do not adjust your terminal. %% We are experiencing technical difficulties, please do not adjust your set. We will attempt to return to our regularly scheduled program as soon as possible. %% We are gathered here to pay tribute to out lord and money unto me. %% We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a lot of relatives on the train for home. %% We are giving instruction to FBI agents in the various Chinese dialects ... to handle present and likely future contingencies. -- J. Edgar Hoover (1895-1972) %% We are having qdaemon problems, would like to reboot. %% We are hopelessly enchanted. Blame it on the angels. Blame it on our wild hearts! %% We are learning how to make our election results known quicker and quicker. It is our campaigns we are having trouble getting any shorter. %% We are locked into a system of "fouling our own nest," so long as we behave as independent, rational free-enterprisers. -- Garrett Hardin %% We are making a survey - We need more time to make up an answer -- Glossary of important business terms %% We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole. -- Seneca %% We are more heavily taxed by our idleness, pride and folly than we are taxed by government. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) %% We are moving to Vax 19. They say its a mean machine. We are moving tonight, So I hope its alright. If we run it remains to be seen! %% We are ne'er like angels 'till out passion dies. -- Dekker %% We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) %% We are not a clone. %% We are not a loved organization, but we are a respected one. -- John Fisher %% We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs. -- Mikhail Gorbachev, UN address, 7 December 1988 %% We are not alone. %% We are not anticipating any emergencies. %% We are not loved by our friends for what we are; rather, we are loved in spite of what we are. -- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) %% We are not primarily on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through. %% We are not so concerned with *what* the members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints think, as we are *that* they think. -- Hugh B. Brown said something like this. %% We are on strike against those who believe that one man must exist for the sake of another ... our terms are a moral code which holds that man is an end in himself and not the means to any end of others ... The mind is evil? We have withdrawn the works of our minds from society ... Ability is a selfish evil that leaves no chance to those who are less able? We have withdrawn from the competition and left all chances open to incompetents. The pursuit of wealth is greed, the root of all evil? We do not seek to make fortunes any longer. -- John Galt %% We are on strike. Why should this seem so startling? There is only one kind of men who have never been on strike in human history. Every other kind and class have stopped, when they so wished, and have presented demands to the world, claiming to be indispensable -- except the men who have carried the world on their shoulders, have kept it alive, have endured torture as sole payment, but have never walked out on the human race. Well, their turn has come. Let the world discover who they are, what they do, and what happens when they refuse to function. This is the strike of the men of the mind, Miss Taggart, this is the mind on strike. -- John Galt %% We are reaching the stage where the problems we must solve are going to become insoluble without computers. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov %% We are restless because of incessant change, but we would be frightened if change were stopped. -- Lyman Lloyd Bryson %% We are riding on a rainbow, its nearly at an end. It was given as a promise, to each and every man. It's a long time since we started, and the days left now are few. It seems the words said long ago were true. Life goes on forever, but it changes like the tide. There's a meaning for existence, no need to run and hide. We are fighting for our freedom, we are searching for a way. And we live in hope of some eternal day. . . We are waiting, we're impatient, we're unfaithful we are true. There's a lesson in the learning, of the different things we do. As it was in the beginning, it shall be at the end. We will come full circle to begin again. Search your heart before you die, is the cost way to high, to explain all the tears, we have caused throughout the years. When everything is finished and we've done all that we can, will we come full circle to begin again? -- Little River Band %% We are simple killers of people and destroyers of property. %% We are so fond of each other because our ailments are the same. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) %% We are sorry. We cannot complete your call as dialed. Please check the number and dial again or ask your operator for assistance. This is a recording. %% We are spirits in the material world. -- The Police %% We are still speaking the same language, but neither of us is hearing the other. -- Hafez Assad, on Syrian relations with Egypt, in "Time", 3 April 1989 %% We are stronger than our skin of flesh and metal, for we carry and share a spectrum of suns and lands that lends us legends as we craft our immortality and interweave our destinies of water and air, leaving shadows that gather color of their own, until they outshine the substance that cast them. %% We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) %% We are the Knights who say "NI", and we want...a... SHRUBBERY! %% We are the coffee generation, we can't afford cocaine We need a healthy dose to make it through the day Don't Care about nuclear war or poverty or pain We are the coffee generation and life is just a game. %% We are the knights who say "Echi, Echi, Echi, Potang!" %% We are the knights who say "Ni" %% We are the people our parents warned us about and the ones we will warn our children about. %% We are the unwilling... led by the unqualified... to do the unnecessary... for the ungrateful... -- GI in Vietnam (1970) %% We are those who do not disconnect the values of our minds from the actions of our bodies, those who do not leave their values to empty dreams, but bring them into existence, those who give material form to thoughts, and reality to values -- those who make steel, railroads, and happiness. -- Dagny Taggart %% We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. %% We are what we are. %% We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. -- Aristotle %% We aren't going to remake the world. -- President George Bush, after meeting Li Peng, the butcher of Tiananmen %% We ask advice, but we mean approbation. -- Colton %% We believe that the reptiles came from the amphibians by spontaneous generation and study of rocks. %% We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics. -- Hubert H. Humphrey %% We boggies are a hairy folk Ever hungry, ever thirsting, Who like to eat until we choke. Never stop till belly's bursting. Loving all like friend and brother, Chewing chop and pork and muttons, And hardly ever eat each other. A merry race of boring gluttons. Sing: GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE. Boggies gather 'round the table, Anything edible, we've got dibs on, Eat as much as you are able. And hope we all die with our bibs on. Gorge yourselves from moon till noon Ever gay, we'll never grow up, (Don't forget your plate and spoon.) Come! And sing and play and throw-up! Sing: GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE! -- Bored of the Rings [The Hobbits National Anthem] %% We both have the same problem--you %% We call our dog Egypt, because in every room he leaves a pyramid. %% We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) %% We can destroy ourselves by cynicism and disillusion, just as effectively as by bombs. -- Kenneth Clark %% We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Theresa %% We can embody the truth, but we cannot know it. -- Yates %% We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra %% We can walk our road together, If our goals are all the same. We can run alone and free, If we pursue a different aim. Let the truth of love be lighted. Let the love of truth shine clear. Sensibility, armed with sense and liberty, With the heart and mind united In a single, perfect sphere. -- Neil Peart, Rush %% We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. -- Will Rogers %% We cannot command nature except by obeying her. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) %% We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home. -- Edward R. Murrow %% We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. -- Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) %% We cannot fight against collectivism, unless we fight against its moral base: altruism. We cannot fight against altruism, unless we fight against its epistemological base: irrationalism. We cannot fight against anything, unless we fight for something -- and what we must fight for is the supremacy of reason, and a view of man as a rational being. -- Ayn Rand %% We cannot really be for something we don't understand. %% We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them. -- Evelyn Waugh %% We chose to go to the moon in this decade, and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) %% We compound our suffering by victimising each other. -- Athol Fugard, in "The Observer", 1971 %% We confess little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% We control the horizontal, we control the vertical, we can make the picture into a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. %% We could be so happy you and me. %% We could do that, but it would be wrong, that's for sure. -- Richard Milhouse Nixon %% We could really bust some heads, in a spiritual sense of course %% We decided it was night again, so we camped for twenty minutes and drank another six beers at a Young Life campsite. O. C. got into the supervisory adult's sleeping bag and ran around in it. "This is the judgment day and I'm a terrifying apparition," he screamed. Then the heat made O. C. ralph in the bag. -- The Utterly Monstrous, Mind-Roasting Summer of O. C. and Stiggs, National Lampoon, October 1982 %% We dedicate this book to our fellow citizens who, for love of truth, take from their own wants by taxes and gifts, and now and then send forth one of themselves as dedicated servant, to forward the search into the mysteries and marvelous simplicities of this strange and beautiful Universe, Our home. -- Misner, Thorne, and Wheeler, "Gravitation" %% We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty! -- Vroomfondel %% We did it to ourselves, didn't we? My people took the world's steering motors for our starships. Can I help set that right? -- Harkabeeparolyn "The Ringworld Engineers" %% We didn't volunteer for this mission. Kzinti and humans, we make poor slaves. -- Louis Wu "The Ringworld Engineers" %% We die only once, and for such a long time. -- Moliere %% We do not ask for what useful purpose the birds do sing, for song if their pleasure since they were created for singing. Similarly, we ought not to ask why the human mind troubles to fathom the secrets of the heavens....The diversity of the phenomena of Nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment. -- Johannes Kepler %% We do not feel this patient has any significant physical disease at the present time, and for this reason we have advised her to return to you. %% We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship of the press. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936) %% We do not stumble over mountains, but over molehills. -- Confucius %% We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them as brothers. -- Booker T. Washington %% We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack. %% We don't care enough about nateral fenominum. %% We don't care. We don't have to. We're Telecom... %% We don't know one millionth of one percent about anything. %% We don't need no education, we don't need no thought control. -- Pink Floyd %% We don't need no indirection We don't need no compilation We don't need no flow control We don't need no load control No data typing or declarations No link edit for external bindings Hey! did you leave the lists alone? Hey! did you leave that source alone? Chorus: (Chorus) Oh No. It's just a pure LISP function call. We don't need no side-effecting We don't need no allocation We don't need no flow control We don't need no special-nodes No global variables for execution No dark bit-flipping for debugging Hey! did you leave the args alone? Hey! did you leave those bits alone? (Chorus) (Chorus) -- Another Glitch in the Call [a la Pink Floyd] %% We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers. %% We don't smoke and we don't chew, and we don't go with girls that do. -- Walter Summers %% We emphasize that we believe in change because we born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it. -- Carl T. Rowen %% We finally get a policy-making body, but we have no policy to make. -- An aide to President George Bush, March 1992 %% We find it hard to believe that other people's thoughts are as silly as our own. -- James Harvey Robinson %% We gave him all the regular ones - the time-honoured lies that have done duty up the river with every boating-man for years past - and added seven entirely original ones that we had invented for ourselves, including a really quite likely story, founded, to a certain extent, on an all but true episode, which had actually happened in a modified degree some years ago to friends of ours - a story that a mere child could have believed without injuring itself much. -- Jerome K. Jerome, "Three Men in a Boat" %% We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain. -- William Rounseville Alger %% We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld (A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.) %% We got a problem here. In Utah. I thought you fixed that last century! No, not that. Someone found a bug in the physics program. They're getting energy out of nowhere. Lemme check... Oh, *that* was dumb! There, that oughta patch it. %% We got on a bus and asked the driver, "Is this bus on time?" The bus driver answered, "No, but we're on the right road." %% We gotta get out of here while we can, cause gents like us, baby we were born to run. %% We gotta get out of this place, If it's the last thing we ever do. -- The Animals %% We gotta get outta this place! %% We grow small by trying to be great. -- E. Stanley Jones %% We had a doofus on our floor who was a real `sky pilot' (Jesus junkie). He was always trying to convert everybody, lecturing about sin, etc. Being a fundamentalist, he not only believed in The Rapture (where God will come and zap all the good Christians straight to Heaven and leave the riffraff), but believed that its time was near. Early one morning we placed carefully-arranged piles of clothes on the hall floor as if their wearers had suddenly evaporated. We used dry ice and incense to make a Stephen Spielberg fog in the hall, then we blew a very loud Freon horn outside his door, threw some nonelectric flashcubes against the wall, and screamed a lot. When he came out, everybody acted stunned and yelled "What's going on? There was a big light and a noise and those guys just disappeared!! For several minutes, we had him believing he had been left behind with us sinners! %% We had it so bad when I was young, we lived on a white line down the middle of the road. %% We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910), Huckleberry Finn %% We hardly find any persons of good sense save those who agree with us. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% We have a degree of delight ... in the real misfortunes and pains of others. -- Edmund Burke %% We have a equal opportunity Calculus class -- it's fully integrated. %% We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often. -- Sir Winston S. Churchill %% We have a sluggish economy ... That's why I favor this deficit so much. -- President George Bush %% We have all passed a lot of water since then. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant turned famous movie producer %% We have among us a class of mammon worshipers, whose one test of conservatism, or radicalism, is the attitude one takes with respect to accumulated wealth. Whatever tends to preserve the wealth of the wealthy is called conservatism, and whatever favors anything else, no matter what they call socialism. -- Richard T. Ely (1854-1943) %% We have art that we do not die of the truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) %% We have ears, earther...FOUR OF THEM! %% We have engaged in a very -- a very -- an extraordinarily broad exercise of diplomacy here ... I don't know what -- what it means fully. -- President George Bush %% We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) %% We have given him everything we can. -- An aide to President George Bush, on assistance to Gorbachev, prior to the Soviet coup. There is no Marshall. And there is no plan. -- Sergey Plekhanov, Soviet scholar of the US, summer 1989. He is very sensitive to the reality that, in a sense, we could do too much. -- White House Chief of Staff John Sununu, on President George Bush and the tiny amount of aid offered Poland %% We have gone on piling weapon upon weapon, missile upon missile, new levels of destructiveness upon old ones. We have done this helplessly, almost involuntarily: like the victims of some sort of hypnotism, like men in a dream, like lemmings heading for the sea, like the children of Hamelin marching blindly along behind their Pied Piper. And the result is that today we have achieved, we and the Russians together, in the creation of these devices and their means of delivery, levels of redundancy of such grotesque dimensions as to defy rational understanding. -- George Kennan (May 19, 1981) %% We have had the reign of the late Avery Brundage, and now we have had eight years of Killanin, which raises the question of whether being an ass is one of the requirements for the job, or whether the job produces that effect on those who hold it. -- National Review %% We have here the latest in primitive technology. %% We have left undone the things we ought to have done, and done the things which we ought not to have done. %% We have lingered long enough on the shores of the Cosmic Ocean. -- Carl Sagan %% We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. -- Tombstone epitaph of two astronomers %% We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked. %% We have no more right to put out discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and fob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware. -- Julia Moss Seton %% We have no power to prevent ourselves being born: but we can rectify this error - for it is sometimes an error. When one _does away with_ oneself one does the most estimable things possible: one thereby almost deserves to live. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), "Gotzen-Dammerung" %% We have no scorched earth policy. We have a policy of scorched Communists. -- General Efrain Rios Montt [President of Guatemala], 1982 %% We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) %% We have not tried to suppress true, legitimate liberty; on the contrary, we have tried to preserve it. We are for liberty, but liberty with order, the kind of liberty which will not threaten the basic principles of our nation, nor threaten its faith and unity. -- Francisco Franco (1892-1975) %% We have nowhere else to go... this is all we have. -- Margaret Mead %% We have only 2 things to worry about: That things will never get back to normal, and that they already have. %% We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place. -- John Berryman %% We have sent the forms which seem to be right for you. %% We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last. -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) %% We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) %% We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. -- William James %% We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. -- Epictetus %% We have watched American democracy at close hand for many years and we believe few governments are institutionally so susceptible to dictatorship as this one. -- Gerald Johnson %% We have ways of making your kind talk. %% We held a beauty contest in our town once but nobody won. -- Herb Shriner %% We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. -- Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) %% We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx (1890-1977) %% We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of. -- George Chapman %% We interrupt this fortune for an important announcement... %% We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and keep step to the music of the Union. -- Rufus Choate %% We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races--by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character. -- Edward Abbey %% We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, but others judge us by what we have already done. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow %% We kill you and you kill us and Allah is the greatest. -- Ayatollah Khomeini (quoted Int. Herald Trib. Jul 1, 1981) %% We kiss, the blood rushes in my veins, ... Candy's eyes. %% We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it. %% We laugh at the Indian philosopher, who to account for the support of the earth, contrived the hypothesis of a huge elephant, and to support the elephant, a huge tortoise. If we will candidly confess the truth, we know as little of the operation of the nerves, as he did of the manner in which the earth is supported: and our hypothesis about animal spirits, or about the tension and vibrations of the nerves, are as like to be true, as his about the support of the earth. His elephant was a hypothesis, and our hypotheses are elephants. Every theory in philosophy, which is built on pure conjecture, is an elephant; and every theory that is supported partly by fact, and partly by conjecture, is like Nebuchadnezzar's image, whose feet were partly of iron, and partly of clay. -- Thomas Reid, "An Inquiry into the Human Mind", 1764 %% We laugh heartily to see a whole flock of sheep jump because one did so; might not one imagine that superior beings do the same by us, and for exactly the same reason? -- Grenville %% We learn from experience. A man never wakes up his second baby just to see it smile. %% We lie about the truth, that's what ruins us here. And do you know why we lie about the truth? Not because we like to, but because we are scared to death of it. If we looked the truth in the eye nine out of ten of us would run to the graveyard and demand to be buried at once. -- Babbaluche the cobbler %% We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal. -- Edward Abbey %% We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism--a Mongoloid metaphysic. -- Edward Abbey %% We live in a time when automation is ushering in a second industrial revolution. -- Adlai E. Stevenson %% We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek then with our eyes open. -- Jawaharlal Nehru %% We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood. -- Lyndon B. Johnson %% We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless. -- Edward Abbey %% We live our lives in darkness Even though we perceive it as light For death is darkness As we are dark Every place we turn we spread This darkness which gives light To death, and in this we gain True light -- Volume II Elisarien Book of Science Speaker: Celone, King of Elves %% We love our little Johnny He's the best little boy in all the world And we wouldn't trade him for anything That's how much we love him. No, we couldn't live without him So that's why, since he died, We keep him safe in our G.E. freezer. He's so good, so well-behaved, Even better than before; Oh, such a wonderful kid he is. Alice and me, we'll never be lonely, Never miss our little Johnny, He'll never grow up and leave us That's why we love him like we do. -- Mr. Mincemeat %% We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) %% We love your adherence to democratic principle, and to democratic processes. -- Vice President George Bush, toasting Ferdinand Marcos, June 1981. He later said, ``I'll repeat it and stand by it ... We should judge by the record.'' %% We make war that we may live in peace. -- Aristotle %% We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields. But which are the best ones to start with? Many people think that a very abstract activity, like the playing of chess, would be best. It can also be maintained that it is best to provide the machine with the best sense organs that money can buy, and then teach it to understand and speak English. -- Alan M. Turing (?-1954) %% We may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt. So, like Travelers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what's done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing. We shall be less apt to admire what this World call great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorn'd as well as our own. -- Christaan Huygens %% We may not be able to persuade Hindus that Jesus and not Vishnu should govern their spiritual horizon, nor Moslems that Lord Buddha is at the center of their spiritual universe, nor Hebrews that Mohammed is a major prophet, nor Christians that Shinto best expresses their spiritual concerns, to say nothing of the fact that we may not be able to get Christians to agree among themselves about their relationship to God. But all will agree on a proposition that they possess profound spiritual resources. If, in addition, we can get them to accept the further proposition that whatever form the Deity may have in their own theology, the Deity is not only external, but internal and acts through them, and they themselves give proof or disproof of the Deity in what they do and think; if this further proposition can be accepted, then we come that much closer to a truly religious situation on earth. -- Norman Cousins, from his book "Human Options" %% We may not know much, but one thing's fo' sho': There's things in the cosmos that we cannot know. Shine light on electrons -- you'll cause them to swerve. The act of observing disturbs the observed. Which ruins your test. But then if there's no testing To see if a particle's moving or resting Why try to conjecture? Pure useless endeavor! We know probability -- certainty never. %% We may now be nearing the end of our hundred-year belief in Free Lunch. %% We met at the rootbeer stand, she was singing in the band. %% We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang in the Smithsonian next January. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac %% We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) %% We must be greater than God, for we have to undo His injustice. %% We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it. -- Saul Alinsky %% We must die because we have known them. -- Ptah-hotep (2000 B.C.) %% We must further expressly and exactly establish the point of view, no less necessary in practice, from which war is regarded as nothing but the continuation of state policy with other means. -- Karl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) %% We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness. -- Maxwell Maltz %% We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. -- Martin Luther King %% We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. -- Alexander Hamilton %% We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda, it is a form of truth. -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) %% We must reform if we would conserve. -- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) %% We must repeat, D E V O. %% We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen. -- Frank Rizzo, Philadelphia Bulletin, Oct 19, 1973 %% We need never mistake local cloudcover for general darkness. The Atonement saw to that. -- Neal A. Maxwell %% We need to do a tarot reading on chemistry. %% We never desire earnestly what we desire in reason. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% We never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated. -- Jorge Luis Borges, "Borges On Writing", 1974 %% We never make assertions, Miss Taggart, that is the moral crime peculiar to our enemies. We do not tell, we show. We do not claim, we prove. It is not your obedience that we seek to win, but your rational conviction. You have seen all the elements of our secret. The conclusion is yours to draw -- we can help you to name it, but not to accept it -- the sight, the knowledge and the acceptance must be yours. -- Hugh Akston, "Atlas Shrugged", by Ayn Rand %% We now return you to your regularly scheduled program. %% We often boast that we are never bored, yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore others. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% We often console ourselves for being unhappy by a certain pleasure in appearing so. %% We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do. %% We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. -- LaRouchefoucauld %% We prefer to speak evil of ourselves than not speak of ourselves at all. %% We presume none sins unless he stands to profit by it. -- The Talmud (Baba Metzia, 5 b.) %% We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% We provide family entertainment... but not that kind of family entertainment. %% We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest. -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) (65-8 B.C.) %% We read to say that we have read. %% We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them. -- Thucydides %% We see the opening of an era: it is an era of seeking beyond the confines of our atmosphere; may it be also an era of awakening to the countries of earth. -- Bertrand De Jouvenel %% We seem to be zigzagging because sometimes it's less a matter of a game plan and more a matter of the president's moods. -- A White House official during the Persian Gulf crisis %% We seem to have juxtaposed an impasse here %% We seldom repent talking too little, but very often talking too much. -- Jean de La Bruyere %% We shall find that it is less difficult to hide a thousand guineas than one hole in your coat. -- Colton %% We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries. -- Harry S. Truman %% We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our existence, on pain of liquidation. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) %% We should all remember when Burroughs was using Virtual memory it was said to be some kind of technical joke. But later, hah, it was said to be ok. And it was because the word had come down from the mountain. IBM had spoken and the world listened. The world as it used to be. Amen. -- Fred Rump (fr@icdi10.UUCP) %% We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it --and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) %% We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. -- Ronald W. Reagan %% We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves. -- John Locke (1632-1704) %% We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) %% We should pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves. -- Colton %% We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here. -- Edward Abbey %% We show our present joking, giggling race, True joy consists in gravity and grace. -- Garrick %% We sought the mutant due for lynching, Not a trace was there to find. I told the others--saw them flinching-- "The bastard must have read my mind!" %% We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us. -- Edward Abbey %% We spend the first part of our human experience avidly accumulating things and the other half wondering what in the world we're going to do with all the stuff. -- Margret E. Keats %% We stand for the maintenance of private property.... We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order. -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), "Der Fruehrer" %% We start out loving our parents and end up hating them. Sometimes we learn to love them again, but we never forgive them. %% We take cunning for a sinister and crooked wisdom, and certainly there is a great difference between a cunning man and a wise man, not only in point of honesty but in point of ability. -- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) %% We take drugs very seriously at my house... %% We the Unwilling, lead by the Unknowing, are doing the impossible for the Ungrateful. We have done so much for so long with so little that we are now qualified to to anything with nothing. %% We the Users, in order to form a more perfect system, establish priorities, ensure connective tranquility, provide for common repairs, promote preventive maintenance, and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our processes, do ordain and establish this Software of The Unixed States of America. %% We the unwilling, led by the ungrateful, are doing the impossible. We've done so much, for so long, with so little, that we are now qualified to do something with nothing. %% We think it's much better to entertain people and get medals than to kill them and get medals for that. -- Paul McCartney (c.a. 1965) %% We think we are on the right road to improvement because we are making experiments. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) %% We took some pictures of the girls, but they weren't developed. %% We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed %% We totally deny the allegations, and we're trying to identify the allegators. %% We trained hard -- but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. -- Petronios Arbiter, 66 AD %% We travel much yet prisoners are And close confined to boot We with the swiftest horse keep pace Yet always go on foot. What are we? Spurs %% We tried to pick up the pieces and get away without hurt. %% We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible. %% We use an amalgam of mercury in modern dentistry because other metals, by themselves, are not sufficiently malleable to be worked with at the normal temperatures inside the human mouth. But mercury--mercury is just walkin' around, right?!? -- Mike the Dentist %% We used to use an IBM PCjr as a doorstop. (It was replaced by an Atari ST) %% We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes -- we have no wish to find them alike. -- Pascal %% We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate. -- William James %% We want no foreign rulers - fight the metric system. %% We was playin' the Homestead Grays in the city of Pitchburgh. Josh [Gibson] comes up in the last of the ninth with a man on and us a run behind. Well, he hit one. The Grays waited around and waited around, but finally the empire rules it ain't comin' down. So we win. The next day, we was disputin' the Grays in Philadelphia when here come a ball outta the sky right in the glove of the Grays' center fielder. The empire made the only possible call. "You're out, boy!" he says to Josh. "Yesterday, in Pitchburgh." -- Satchel Paige %% We welcome advice and criticism, and always rush them through the proper channels. (One flush usually does it!) %% We were hungry when we got to Moscow, Soviet. -- Groucho Marx (1890-1977) %% We were so poor we couldn't afford a watchdog. If we heard a noise at night, we'd bark ourselves. -- Crazy Jimmy %% We were unanimous - in fact everyone was unanimous. %% We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. -- Stephen Jay Gould %% We will bury you! -- Nikita S. Khrushchev (1894-1971) %% We will have a planned development and will take people out of the ghettos and give them an opportunity to raise their families in decent surroundings. %% We will look into it - by the time the wheel makes a full turn, we assume you will have forgotten about it, too -- Glossary of important business terms %% We will need a computer to tally All the cowboys who scouted our Sally. There were some on her mountains And some on her fountains, And quite a few down in the valley. %% We will occasionally use this arrow notation unless there is danger of no confusion. -- Ronald Graham, "Rudiments of Ramsey Theory" %% We will, we will rock you. %% We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. -- Margaret Mead %% We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop (620-560 B.C.) %% We'd like to make a deal with the computer. We promise not to fold, spindle or mutilate if it will stop asking us to sign our name over those little holes in the space marked for signature. %% We'd love to stay and chat but we have to go to the lobby and wait for the limo. -- Spinal Tap %% We'll cross that bridge when we come back to it later. %% We'll figure it out. -- President George Bush, on how to pay for his $100 billion health-care plan, announced in 1992, which involved giving poor people vouchers to buy private health insurance at some point in the future when it is cheaper, and which was never submitted anyway %% We'll give you piece de resistance and a tour de force %% We'll have to make our own luck from now on. -- Louis Wu "Ringworld" %% We'll meet down by the giant Exxon sign that brings the fair city light. %% We'll pivot at warp 2 and bring all tubes to bear, Mr. Sulu! %% We'll stoop to whatever is necessary to win. -- A Bush (1992) campaign official %% We're Digital Equipment Corporation ... and you're not. %% We're all going down the same road in different directions. -- Dave Farber %% We're all theme parks. %% We're as similar as two dissimilar things in a pod. %% We're dedicated to our favorite show. %% We're fighting against humanism, we're fighting against liberalism... we are fighting against all the systems of Satan that are destroying our nation today...our battle is with Satan himself. -- Jerry Falwell %% We're fighting for this woman's honor, which is more than she ever did. -- Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho Marx), in "Duck Soup" %% We're going to paint Clinton as a man out of control, who can't control his zipper, can't control his wife and can't control his waistline. -- A senior adviser to the 1992 Bush campaign %% We're gonna have a TV party tonight! %% We're happy little Vegemites, As bright as bright can be. We all all enjoy our Vegemite For breakfast, lunch and tea. %% We're here for a good time, not a long time ! %% We're here to give you a computer, not a religion. -- attributed to Bob Pariseau, at the introduction of the Amiga %% We're living in a golden age. All you need is gold. -- D. W. Robertson %% We're looking for a few good men. -- B. Cassidy %% We're lost, but we're making good time. %% We're not in the eighth dimension, we're over New Jersey! %% We've all heard about the woman who married a Field Service engineer, but divorced him after one day because he'd done nothing on their wedding night but promise to have it up in 15 minutes. What few people know is that the poor man was in the bathroom all night, masturbating furiously, saying "I don't understand, it passes all the diagnostics!" %% We've already established what you are, ma'am. Now we're just haggling over the price. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) %% We've got an unbeatable team! -- Sauron %% We've got nothing better to do, 'cept watch TV and have a couple of brew. %% We've got them eating out of our laps. %% We've had bad luck with our kids -- they've all grown up. -- Christopher Morley %% We've just received the results of a survey conducted to ascertain the various reasons men get out of bed in the middle of the night. According to the report, 2% are motivated by a desire to visit the bathroom, and 3% have an urge to raid the refrigerator. The other 95% get up to go home. %% We've tried each spinning space mote and reckoned its true worth: take us back again to the homes of men on the cool, green hills of Earth. The arching sky is calling spacemen back to their trade. All hands! Standby! Free falling! And the lights below us fade. Out ride the sons of Terra, far drives the thundering jet, up leaps the race of earthmen, out, far, and onward yet-- We pray for one last landing on the globe that gave us birth; let us rest our eyes on the fleecy skies and the cool, green hills of Earth. -- Robert A. Heinlein (1941) %% Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most unsubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion than with a sword. -- Richard Whately (1787-1863) %% Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it. -- Poor Richard %% Wealth is not without its advantages, and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. -- John Kenneth Galbraith %% Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace--a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for. -- Edward Abbey %% Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. %% Wear armor, going naked seems to offend public decency in here. %% Wear me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, passion cruel as the grave; it blazes up like blazing fire, fiercer than any flame. -- Song of Solomon 8:6 (NEB) %% Webster's Law: The damage rarely exceeds the deductible. %% Wed in haste, repent in leisure. %% Wedding March: 19th Century, England The traditional church wedding features two bridal marches, by two different classical composers. The bride walks down the aisle to the majestic, moderately paced music of the "Bridal Chorus" from Richard Wagner's 1848 opera "Lohengrin. The newlyweds exit to the more jubilant, upbeat strains of the "Wedding March" from Felix Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The custom dates back to the royal marriage, in 1858, of Victoria, princess of Great Britain, and Empress of Germany, to Prince Frederick William of Prussia. Victoria, eldest daughter of Britain's Queen Victoria, selected the music herself. A patron of the arts, she valued the works of Mendelssohn and practically venerated those of Wagner. Given the British penchant for copying the monarchy, soon brides throughout the Isles, nobility and commoners alike, were marching to Victoria's drummer, establishing a Western wedding tradition. %% Wedding Ring: A tourniquet worn on the left hand to stop circulation. -- "Laughs Unlimited" %% Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise. -- John Heywood %% Weed -- a plant whose virtues have yet to be discovered. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) %% Weed's Axiom: Never ask two questions in a business letter. The reply will discuss the one in which you are least interested and say nothing about the other. %% Weekend, where are you? %% Weekends were made for programming. -- Karl Lehenbauer, karl@hackercorp.com %% Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep. -- William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) %% Weeping, I wake; waking, I weep, I weep. %% Weight Loss Scandal: Proctologist Removes Network Anchorman's Hand. %% Weinberg's Programming Principle #1: Standards aren't standard. %% Weinberg's Programming Principle #2: There's always one more bug, even after that one is removed. %% Weinberg's Programming Principle #3: Anything that can happen will happen, unless your test plan provides for it to happen. %% Weinberg's Programming Principle #4: When someone points a finger at some part of the code, look somewhere else for the trouble - most likely where the other three fingers are pointing. %% Weinberg's Programming Principle #5: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but management won't pay a penny for it. %% Weinberg's Programming Principle #6: Specifications, design, and coding can be done at any speed - only debugging takes time. %% Weinberg's Programming Principle #7: There is no code so big, twisted, or complex that maintenance can't make it worse. %% Weinberg's Programming Principle #8: Everyone talks about documentation, but nobody ever does anything about it. %% Weinberg's Programming Principle #9: You may run short of hardware, but you'll never run short of hardware salespeople. %% Weinberg, as a young grocery clerk, advised the grocery manager to get rid of rutabagas which nobody every bought. He did so. "Well, kid, that was a great idea," said the manager. Then he paused and asked: "NOW what's the least popular vegetable?" %% Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends! We're so glad you could attend, come inside, come inside! There behind the glass there's a real blade of grass, Be careful as you pass, move along, move along. Come inside, the show's about to start, Guaranteed to blow your head apart. Rest assured, you'll get your money's worth, Greatest show, in heaven, hell or earth! You gotta see the show! It's a dynamo! You gotta see the show! It's rock 'n' roll! -- ELP, "Karn Evil 9 (1st Impression, Part 2)" %% Welcome to Adventure!! Would you like instructions? %% Welcome to Dungeon! Dungeon is a game of adventure, danger, and low cunning. In it you will explore some of the most amazing territory ever seen by mortal man. Hardened adventurers have run screaming from the terrors contained within. In Dungeon, the intrepid explorer delves into the forgotten secrets of a lost labyrinth deep in the bowels of the earth, searching for vast treasures long hidden from prying eyes, treasures guarded by fearsome monsters and diabolical traps! No DECsystem should be without one! %% Welcome to Dungeon! You are near a large dungeon, which is reputed to contain vast quantities of treasure. Naturally, you wish to acquire some of it. In order to do so, you must of course remove it from the dungeon. To receive full credit for it, you must deposit it safely in the trophy case in the living room of the house. %% Welcome to Dungeon. This version created 10-SEP-78. %% Welcome to Earthsea! You are in the land of Earthsea, a large group of islands surrounded by a tremendous sea on all sides. Scattered over the islands are large quantities of treasure, as well as other useful objects. Not all of the treasures will be easy to obtain. The object of the game is not only to acquire as many desirable items as possible, but also to deposit them in the proper places. In order to keep track of how well you are doing, a score is kept. You may receive points for finding an object, more points for holding on to it, and the maximum number if you figure out where to put it. Many of the not-so-valuable objects will be essential in obtaining the valuable ones. Earthsea is a CFS (Compter Fantasy Simulation) game in the same tradition as Adventure or Zork. If you are unfamiliar with either Adventure or Zork, it would be best to attempt to play them before assaying Earthsea, as it is considerably more complex. The basic scenario is based on Ursula K. Leguin's Earthsea Trilogy. Much of the philosophy behind the puzzles stems from these books as well. Earthsea is an attempt at a somewhat more serious CFS game than its predecessors. Many of the puzzles are adapted from literary sources. No reading is essential to solve any of the puzzles, but it can't hurt. For a complete bibliography, use the 'BIBLIO' command. Information about other commands can be found using 'INFO'. Good luck. Earthsea was originally conceived by Ned Freed, Mark Lipton, and David Abe. Most of the code was written by Mark Lipton, Ned Freed, and Kevin Carosso. Other implementors were Randy Saunders and Cynthia Abbott. %% Welcome to Fort Knox! %% Welcome to Fortune Blackmail!! This is the first of a series of revelations which could add up to a divorce, premature retirement and possible criminal proceedings for a company vice-president in Langley Virginia. So, Mr. S*****, $10,000 please to stop us from revealing: 1: Whose shoulders you were sitting on. 2: What you were doing. 3: The names of the three people involved. 4: The youth organization to which they belonged. 5: The shop where you bought the equipment. %% Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the men are good-looking, the women are strong, and the children are above-average. %% Welcome to New York. Now, go home. %% Welcome to New Zealand, set your watch back 20 years. %% Welcome to Ronald Reagan's Bonzo room! %% Welcome to UNIX! Enjoy your session! Have a great time! Note the use of exclamation points! They are a very effective method for demonstrating excitement, and can also spice up an otherwise plain-looking sentence! However, there are drawbacks! Too much unnecessary exclaiming can lead to a reduction in the effect that an exclamation point has on the reader! For example, the sentence Jane went to the store to buy bread should only be ended with an exclamation point if there is something sensational about her going to the store, for example, if Jane is a cocker spaniel or if Jane is on a diet that doesn't allow bread or if Jane doesn't exist for some reason! See how easy it is?! Proper control of exclamation points can add new meaning to your life! Call now to receive my free pamphlet, "The Wonder and Mystery of the Exclamation Point!"! Enclose fifteen(!) dollars for postage and handling! Operators are standing by! (Which is pretty amazing, because they're all cocker spaniels!) %% Welcome to VAX/VMS V4.0 %% Welcome to beautiful downtown Maynard, minicomputer capitol of the world. %% Welcome to boggle - do you want instructions? D G G O O Y A N A D B T K I S P Enter words: > %% Welcome to the Graveyard! %% Welcome to the Machine %% Welcome to the Swamp! %% Welcome to the Zoo! %% Welcome to the future for it will soon be the past. Respect the past, for it was once all that was humanly possible. %% Welcome to the jungle. Please obey our laws. %% Welders do it with hot rods. %% Well I know that you're in love with him, cause I saw you dancing in the gym, you both kicked off your shoes, man I dig those rhythm and blues %% Well I looked at my watch and it said a quarter to five, The headline screamed that I was still alive, I couldn't understand it, I thought I died last night. I dreamed I'd been in a border town, In a little cantina that the boys had found, I was desperate to dance, just to dig the local sounds. When along came a senorita, She looked so good that I had to meet her, I was ready to approach her with my English charm, When her brass knuckled boyfriend grabbed me by the arm, And he said, grow some funk of your own, amigo, Grow some funk of your own. We no like to with the gringo fight, But there might be a death in Mexico tonite. ... Take my advice, take the next flight, And grow some funk, grow your funk at home. -- Elton John, "Grow Some Funk of Your Own" %% Well I may not be a new Messiah, but I'm close enough for rock and roll. -- 38 special %% Well I was seeing this psychiatrist for a while, and in one corner of the room there was a window, and in the other corner was a mirror, and in still another corner was the chair that I sat in. By looking at subtle movements of my eyes, she could tell whether I was looking at her, or at mirror, or out the window. And I said one day, "Hey look at that!." And, not realizing that I was looking out the window, she said, "Look at what?" It was then that I realized that I no longer needed to see her because we saw things from totally different points of view. %% Well I was sitting in my room thinking the other day and my mom came in and said "Mike, Mike." and I guess I didn't hear her 'cuz then she started screaming "MIKE! MIKE!" and I said "WHAT? WHAT?" and she said "What's the matter with you? You're on drugs!" And I said "No Mom, I'm not on drugs. I'm just thinking." And she said "Normal people don't act that way. YOU'RE ON DRUGS!" So I said "No Mom, I'm OK. Why don't you get me a Pepsi? And she wouldn't do it! Just one Pepsi! Just one Pepsi, and she wouldn't give it to me! %% Well I was walking along, minding my business, When out of that orange colored sky, Crash, Bam, Alakazam, I got a look at you. %% Well I'm goin' out west, where I belong. Where the days are short and the night are long. Well they'll walk, and I'll walk. They'll twist, and I'll twist. They'll shimmy, and I'll shimmy. They'll fly, and I'll fly. We'll be out there havin' fun - in the warm California sun. %% Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand why she walked like a woman but talked like a man... %% Well I'ved rammed through all windows and I've broken all your doors. %% Well begun is half done. -- Aristotle %% Well buggered was a boy named Delpasse By all of the lads in his class He said, with a yawn, "Now the novelty's gone And it's only a pain in the ass." %% Well cover me in egg & flour and bake me for 14 minutes %% Well diggers do it in a hole. %% Well don't you know about the bird, well everyone knows that the Bird is the word. %% Well done is better than well said. %% Well done. The boat is repaired. %% Well if she wants to see me, you can tell her that I'm easily found. %% Well now some folks are born into the good life and other folks get it anyway anyhow. %% Well now that we have seen each other," said the Unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?" -- Lewis Carroll %% Well now, the shark could eat you ... or you could eat the shark. %% Well show a little faith in the night, you ain't a beauty but yeah you're alright. %% Well thaaaaaaat's okay. %% Well the maximum lawman run down Flamingo, chasing the rat and the barefoot girl %% Well they're still racing out at the fairgrounds, but the blood it never burned in their veins. %% Well we found the things we loved crushed and dying in the end. %% Well what? %% Well, FOO, BAR, and BLETCH to you too! %% Well, God gave me a bust. What am I supposed to do with it? -- Martha Mitchell %% Well, I don't know where they come from but they sure do come, I hope they comin' for me! And I don't know how they do it but they sure do it good, I hope they doin' it for free! They give me cat scratch fever... cat scratch fever! First time that I got it I was just ten years old, Got it from the kitty next door... I went to see the doctor and he gave me the cure, I think I got it some more! Got a bad scratch fever... -- Ted Nugent, "Cat Scratch Fever" %% Well, I have seen a king and queen, a beggar falling at my feet They all must see the same sad dreams at night Futility and senseless war, pit the rich against the poor For causes buried long before the fight %% Well, I would -- if they realized that we -- again if -- if we led them back to that stalemate only because that our retaliatory power, our seconds, or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive that they couldn't afford it, that it would hold them off. -- Ronald W. Reagan when asked if nuclear war could be limited to tactical weapons %% Well, I'd left home just a week before, and I'd never ever kissed a woman before, but Lola smiled and took me by the hand, and said 'Little boy, gonna make you a man!' Well, I'm not the world's most masculine man, but I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man and so's Lola. La, la, la, la-Lola...la, la, la, la-Lola . . . Lola. -- The Kinks %% Well, Jim, I'm not much of an actor either. %% Well, actually, I don't mind going to weddings or anything, as long as they're not my own, I show up, but uh, I've always kinda been partial to callin' myself up on the phone, asking myself out, y'know, yeah, one thing about it, you're always around. Yeah, I know, yeah, you ask yourself out, y'know, some class joint somewhere, the Burrito King, or somethin', y'know, well, I ain't cheap y'know. Take yourself out for a coupla drinks, mebbe, then you eat, some provocative conversation on the way home, and uh, park in front of the house, y'know, and you, oh yeah, you smoo with yourself, put a little nice music on, mebbe you put on like, uh, y'know, like shoppin' music, something that's not too interruptive, y'know, and then uh, y'know, slide over real nice, and say, "Oh, I think you have something in your eye", well, maybe it's not that romantic with you, but I don't, y'know, I get into it, y'know, I take myself up to the porch, and uh, take myself inside, maybe, oh, I might get a little something in a brandy snifter, "Would you like to listen to some of my back records, I got something here...", well, usually, about two-thirty in the morning, you've ended up takin' advantage of yourself, and there ain't no way around that, y'know, yeah, makin' the scene with a magazine, ain't no way around it. I'll confess, y'know, I'm no different, y'know, I'm not weird about it or anything, I don't tie myself up first, I just, I just kinda spend a little time with myself. -- Tom Waits, "Nighthawks at the Diner" %% Well, and let me make this...perfectly clear, I honestly believe, in my heart, that I am not a crook, or if I am, I don't remember it, which is the same thing. %% Well, are you going to just sit there? Get working, quit wasting company time! %% Well, didja wake up grouchy or did you let her sleep? %% Well, fancy giving money to the Government! Might as well have put it down the drain. Fancy giving money to the Government! Nobody will see the stuff again. Well, they've no idea what money's for -- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government! -- A. P. Herbert %% Well, he went down to dinner in his Sunday best, Excitable boy, they all said! And he rubbed the pot roast all over his chest, Excitable boy, they all said! Well, he's just an excitable boy. He took Sally Tompkins to the junior prom, Excitable boy, they all said! Then he raped her and killed her, then he took her home, Excitable boy, they all said! Well, he's just an excitable boy. After ten long years, they let him out of the home Excitable boy, they all said! And he dug up her grave, made a cage of her bones, Excitable boy, they all said! Well, he's just an excitable boy. -- Warren Zevon, "Excitable Boy" %% Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *can* you believe?! -- Bullwinkle J. Moose [Jay Ward] %% Well, it's better than being Professor of Floating Point! -- R. William Gosper %% Well, look at it. Every piece of it is there because the house needs it -- and for no other reason. You see it from here as it is inside. The rooms in which you'll live made the shape. The relation of masses was determined by the distribution of space within. The ornament was determined by the method of construction, an emphasis of the principle that makes it stand. You can see each tress, each support that meets it. Your own eyes go through a structural process when you look at the house, you can follow each step, you see it rise, you know what made it and why it stands. But you've seen buildings with columns that support nothing, with purposeless cornices, with pilasters, moldings, false arches, false windows ... Do you understand the difference? Your house is made by its own needs. Those others are made by the need to impress. The determining motive of your house is in the house. The determining motive of the others is in the audience. -- Howard Roark %% Well, my daddy left home when I was three, And he didn't leave much for Ma and me, Just and old guitar an'a empty bottle of booze. Now I don't blame him 'cause he ran and hid, But the meanest thing that he ever did, Was before he left he went and named me Sue. ... But I made me a vow to the moon and the stars, I'd search the honkey tonks and the bars, And kill the man that give me that awful name. It was Gatlinburg in mid-July, I'd just hit town and my throat was dry, Thought I'd stop and have myself a brew, At an old saloon on a street of mud, Sitting at a table, dealing stud, Sat that dirty (bleep) that name me Sue. ... Now, I knew that snake was my own sweet Dad, From a wornout picture that my Mother had, And I knew that scar on his cheek and his evil eye... -- Johnny Cash, "A Boy Named Sue" %% Well, pluck me naked as a scalded chicken! %% Well, see, Joyce, there we were, trapped in the elevator. Now, I had my tennis racquet and the goldfish; she was holding the Crisco. Surely you can imagine how one thing naturally led to another! %% Well, sometimes, anyway. -- The Editor %% Well, that's what happens when cousins marry. %% Well, the girls can't stand her 'cause she walks, looks and drives like an ace, now. %% Well, the handwriting is on the floor. -- Joe E. Lewis %% Well, the stage was set the sun was sinking low down, Cause they came to town to face another showdown. The lawmen cleared the people from the streets - All you blood-thirsty bystanders, will you try and find your seats. %% Well, there was this tiger, who woke up one morning, and just felt great (yes, just like Tony the Tiger: GREAAAAAAT). Anyway, he just felt so good, he went out and cornered a small monkey and roared at him: "WHO IS THE MIGHTIEST OF ALL THE JUNGLE ANIMALS?" And this poor quaking little monkey replied: "You are of course, no one is mightier than you." A little while later this tiger confronts a deer, and just bellows out: "WHO IS THE GREATEST AND STRONGEST OF ALL THE JUNGLE ANIMALS?" The deer is shaking so hard it can barely speak, but manages to stammer: "Oh great tiger, you are by far the mightiest animal in the jungle." The tiger, being on a roll, swaggered, up to an elephant that was quietly munching on some weeds, and roared at the top of his voice: "WHO IS THE MIGHTIEST OF ALL THE ANIMALS IN THE JUNGLE?" Well, this elephant grabs the tiger with his trunk, picks him up, slams him down; picks him up again, and shakes him until the tiger is just a blur of orange and black; and finally throws him violently into a nearby tree. The tiger staggers to his feet and looks at the elephant and says: "Man, just because you don't know the answer, you don't have to get so pissed." %% Well, there's been dramatic progress. -- President George Bush, three weeks before death squads killed six priests in El Salvador %% Well, we'll really have a party, but we've gotta post a guard outside. -- Eddie Cochran, "Come On Everybody" %% Well, we're big rock singers, We got golden fingers, And we're loved everywhere we go, We sing about beauty, and we sing about truth, At ten thousand dollars a show. We take all kinds of pills to give us all kinds of thrills, But the thrill we've never known, Is the thrill that'll get you, when you get your picture, On the cover of the Rolling Stone. -- Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show [As a note, they eventually DID make the cover of RS. Ed.] %% Well, why don't you just pander to my medieval, old-fashioned superstitions and take them for me. After all, it would save me having to put make-up on and a mask and dance around a fire in order to get rid of the evil spirits. -- Barbara, THE WEB PLANET %% Well, you got your mules and you got your racehorses, and you can kick a mule in the ass all you want, and he's still not gonna be a racehorse. -- Billy Martin, "Esquire", May 1984 %% Well, you really blew it. You have managed to wound yourself. Good going! %% Well, you really did it that time. Is suicide painless? %% Well, you see there was this neighborhood that had a Catholic Priest, a Protestant Minister, and a Rabbi who lived next door to each other. One day the Priest went out and bought a new car, and the Minister and Rabbi, not to be outdone, did the same. The next day the Priest went out and blessed his car. The Protestant Minister hired a crane and baptized his car in a swimming pool. The Rabbi, after thinking a bit, got a hacksaw and cut three inches off the end of his tail pipe. %% Well, you seem to have been brushing your teeth with some sort of glue. As a result, your mouth gets glued together with your nose, and you die of respiratory failure. %% Well-timed silence has more eloquence than speech. %% Wendy let me in, I wanna be your friend, I wanna guard your dreams and visions. %% Wendy this trap rips the bones from my back, is's a death trap it's a suicide rap. %% Wer zuletzt lacht, lacht am besten. (He who laughs last laughs best.) %% Were I to use the wits the good Spirit gave me, then I would say this lady cannot exist--for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes. -- Magnifico Giganticus (aka the Mule) %% Were it not for imagination, sir, a man would be as happy in the arms of a chambermaid as a duchess. -- Dr. Johnson %% Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin. -- F. M. Colby, "Imaginary Obligations" %% Were we as eloquent as angels, yet should we please some men and some women much more by listening than by talking. -- Colton %% Wernher van Braun settled for a V-2 when he coulda had a V-8. %% Westheimer's Time Estimation Rule: Estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by 2, add 3, and change the unit of measure to the next higher unit. %% Wethir, the worst spell of weather we've ad around here in years. %% Whadda ya want for nothin'? A rrrrrrubber biscuit? %% Wharbat darbid yarbou sarbay? %% What Congress means by ethics is best explained by the tailor's story: "Suppose I sell a suit to a young man for $200. He tells me that his family is footing the bill and that if I give him a receipt for $400 to give to his parents, he will pay me $100 on the side. The question of ethics is: Do I keep the extra $100 myself, or do I tell my partner and split it with him?" %% What I like about Clive Is that he is no longer alive. There is a great deal to be said For being dead. -- Edmund Clerihew Bentley, "Biography for Beginners" %% What I like is when you're looking and thinking and looking and thinking... and suddenly you wake up. -- Hobbes %% What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word QUALITY cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate, and direct. -- Pirsig, "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" %% What I said back then -- well, it's hard to find. Number one, I didn't say it. -- George Bush, on calling Reagan's policies ``voodoo economics'' during the 1980 primaries. NBC rebroadcast the tape %% What I want to do is to make people laugh so that they'll see things seriously. -- William K. Zinsser %% What I've enjoyed most about my climb to the top is all the people I've got to step on. %% What a big gap there is between advice and help %% What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self. -- Helen Keller %% What a man can imagine or conceive in his mind he can accomplish. Impossibilities are possible as thinking men make them so. -- Henry J. Kaiser %% What a man needs in gardening is a cast iron back, with a hinge in it. -- Charles Dudley Warner %% What a new face courage puts on everything! -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) %% What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprehension, how like a god; the beauty of the world--the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? -- William Shakespeare %% What a pity that the only way to heaven is in a hearse! -- Stanislaw J. Lec %% What a pity, that you cannot read it! %% What a quiche-eater you are! %% What a strange game. The only winning move is not to play. -- WOP, "War Games" %% What a toad you are! %% What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it! %% What always succeeds? A Budgie with no teeth. %% What an artist dies with me! -- Nero %% What animal doesn't play fair? Cheetah %% What ardently we wish we soon believe. -- Young %% What are called inspirational books, like Gibran's "The Prophet" or Bach's "Seagull", seem to have been strained through a bowl of fish-eye tapioca. -- Edward Abbey %% What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease. -- Bliss Carman %% What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not, And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot! -- Wordsworth %% What are friends for? -- Richard Milhouse Nixon %% What are imitation rhinestones? -- CT Hart %% What are most of the histories of the world, but lies? Lies immortalized and consigned offer as a perpetual abuse and a flaw upon prosperity. -- South %% What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism? -- Richard Milhouse Nixon %% What are the three most difficult years for an Edmontonian? Second Grade %% What are these bread crumbs doing in the water bottle? %% What are you doing?!? The message is over,GO AWAY! %% What are you staring at? %% What are you trying to do? Guess her weight? %% What at first glance appeared to be a sword of stone, is revealed upon closer study to be an ancient artifact which has been encrusted in a stony material over the centuries. %% What avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map? -- Aldo Leopold %% What awful irony is this? We are as gods, but know it not. %% What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? -- Alan Paton, "Cry, The Beloved Country", 1948 %% What can you break more easily with a whisper than with a hammer? Secret %% What can you do for me? %% What can you use used tampons for? Tea bags for vampires. %% What care I how time advances: I am drinking ale today. %% What causes the mysterious death of everyone? %% What color is a hiccup? Burple. %% What could possibly go wrong? %% What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are notn warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms!" -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), 1787 %% What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1958 %% What creatures of habit we are. This morning, without thinking, half asleep, I put $100 on my pillow. That's not so bad, no one would worry about it, but my wife, half asleep, without thinking, gave me $20 change. %% What did Ben Johnson say after being accused of taking steroids. "Stereo? Hey, mon, I didn't take no stereo." %% What did Hellen Keller call her dog? Ooorrooorror (make a strange, unintelligible sound here...) %% What did I do wrong? -- Lear, Rex %% What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? "Separate checks, please." -- Edward Abbey %% What did Jesus say when he was hanging on the cross ? "I can see my house from here !" %% What did one sand dune say to the other sand dune? How ya dune? What did the bean say to the sand dune? How ya been dune? %% What did the Provo river say when the BYU coed jumped in? I'll be dammed! %% What did the WIMP interface say to the new user when he asked for help? Can you point me in the right direction? %% What did the centurion say to Jesus when he fell with the cross the third time? "Once more, buddy, and you're out of the parade!" %% What did the colliding particle say to the other particle while under a temperature gradient? Oh, I'm sorry! (Soret) %% What did the crow sit on the telephone wire? He wanted to make a long distance cawl... %% What did the cup of coffee say to the man? Let me shake your hand. %% What did the freshman computer science major say when he was told that the work stations had mice? Don't you have a cat? %% What did the procedure say when the control program called it? I was framed. %% What did the programmer say when he was asked why he couldn't sleep? I keep having this recurring nightmare. %% What did the psychologist say to the programming group? Don't forget to check in. %% What did the state table say to bitstring? I don't recognize you. %% What did the valley girl say when her boyfriend blew in her ear? Like, thanks for the refill. %% What did ya do with your burden and your cross? Did you carry it yourself or did you cry? You and I know that a burden and a cross, Can only be carried on one man's back. -- Louden Wainwright III %% What did you bring that book I didn't want to be read to out of about Down Under up for? %% What did you do in Russia before you were shot? -- Groucho Marx (1890-1977) %% What direction? %% What do I consider a reasonable person to be? I'd say a reasonable person is one who accepts that we are all human and therefore fallible, and takes that into account when dealing with others. Implicit in this definition is the belief that it is the right and the responsibility of each person to live his or her own life as he or she sees fit, to respect this right in others, and to demand the assumption of this responsibility by others. %% What do I do? I'm a Primal Man. Here's my card. %% What do Kathy Rice and Christa MacCauliff have in common? They both went down on the challenger. %% What do Mexicans call Bartle and James? Dos Okies %% What do Teamsters and sperm have in common? Only 1 in 1000 work. %% What do any of the Dodgers have in common with Michael Jackson? They all wear one glove for no apparent reason. %% What do batteries run on? %% What do breasts and toy trains have in common ? They're made for children but the father always ends up playing with them. %% What do call an epileptic in a lettuce patch? Seizure salad %% What do elephants use for Tampax? ...Sheep. %% What do lawyers use for birth control? Their personalities. -- Nolo Press %% What do sea monsters eat? Fish and ships. %% What do they call "Hee Haw" in Oklahoma? A documentary. %% What do two WASP brothers exchange after not seeing each other for decades? Business cards. %% What do you MEAN it's not in the computer?!? -- Madonna %% What do you call 3 dead chickens and a tractor that won't start? The South Dakota state fair. %% What do you call a 16-year-old girl who hangs out with musicians? Tiffany. %% What do you call a Frenchman who explodes a bomb on the kitchen floor? Linoleum Blownapart! %% What do you call a Nun that is sleep walking? A Roam'n Catholic. %% What do you call a bouncer in a gay bar? A flame thrower. %% What do you call a couple of guys with no arms or legs hanging around a window? Curt and Rod %% What do you call a cow that has had an abortion? Decaffinated... %% What do you call a cow with no legs ?? GROUND BEEF !!!! %% What do you call a dog with no legs? It doesn't matter, he can't come anyway. %% What do you call a female clown? A Clunt :-) %% What do you call a gay in a wheelchair? Rolaids %% What do you call a good-looking, intelligent guy in Millet? A tourist. %% What do you call a group of Italian astronauts? Specimen. %% What do you call a group of kids with low IQ's, drinking diet cola, eating fruit, and singing? The Moron Tab and Apple Choir. %% What do you call a monkey in a blender? Rhesus pieces. %% What do you call a prostitute with a runny nose? Full! %% What do you call a sadistic Dentist who rides a motorcycle and wears a black leather jacket? The Leader of the Plaque. %% What do you call a scottish highlander with four sheep ? A: A pimp. %% What do you call an Italian fog? A bigomist. %% What do you call children born to prostitutes? Brothel sprouts. %% What do you call frogs sauteed in egg and milk? Fried toads. -- Loni Anderson %% What do you call huge? On the Ringworld? -- Louis Wu "The Ringworld Engineers" %% What do you call it when someone rubs a Volkswagen van on your head? A Fahrvergnoogie. %% What do you call someone with herpes, AIDS, syphilis, and gonorrhea? An incurable romantic. %% What do you call the caped crusader and his sidekick after they got run over by a steamroller? Flatman and Ribbon. %% What do you do if you find an epileptic in your bathtub? Throw in some soap and a load of laundry. %% What do you do you do with 42 binary trees? Make a binary forest. %% What do you expect, BOOM? %% What do you feed a Trojan horse? A latex lollipop! %% What do you get when you cross a Edmontonian with a gorilla? A retarded gorilla %% What do you get when you cross a highway with a bicycle? Run over. %% What do you get when you cross a hippopotamus and a grasshopper? A grassopotomus - a creature which can jump to great heights, once. %% What do you get when you cross a parrot with a centipede? A walkie-talkie, of course. %% What do you get when you cross a pitbull with a cattle prod? Bitten. %% What do you get when you cross an elephant and a rhinoceros? 'Elephino! %% What do you get when you cross an octopus with a sheep? A sweater with eight sleeves. %% What do you get when you find a worm in a prison cell? Jailbait. %% What do you get when you pour boiling water down a rabbit hole? Hot cross bunnies. %% What do you get when you roll a hand grenade across a kitchen floor? Linoleum Blownapart. %% What do you give a dead baby for xmas? A dead puppy. %% What do you give a seasick elephant? Lots of room. %% What do you have to say that is worth listening to? %% What do you have when you have three lawyers up to their necks in sand? Not enough sand! %% What do you mean that 2 years have passed?? %% What do you mean the SCI-FI FANS are controlled by the REPUBLICANS...? %% What do you mean, "There's no such thing as a free lunch?" *YOU* are the free lunch! -- Solomon Short %% What do you mean, "You've got a little job for me?" -- Hercules %% What do you think is the use of dead lizards? %% What do you think would be the use of a sword called "Orcrist" ? %% What do you want - good graphics or good taste? %% What do you want from life? %% What do you want to do with the %% What do you want? %% What does "BSS" mean? Traditionally, executable Unix system programs are divided into text, data, and BSS segments. The text segment contains executable code, the data segment contains initialized variables, and the BSS segment contains uninitialized variables. The letters BSS stand for Block Starting at Symbol. %% What does "Unix" stand for? "Unix" is not an acronym, so it doesn't stand for anything. A a contrast to an earlier operating system, Multics, Brian Kernighan coined the word to indicate that "Unix" is simpler and more unified. In fact, the Unix system is Multics without balls. %% What does "awk" indicate? The three letters form an acronym for the authors of the program: Aho, Weinberger, and Kernighan. The name is probably also an abbreviated indictment of the language's syntax. %% What does "grep" mean? The letters grep indicate "Globally search for a Regular Expression and Print." In standard Unix system editors, the notation is g/re/p where re is a regular expression. The simplest regular expression is a string of characters where every character matches itself. More complicated regular expressions can match any character, any one of a set of characters, or the beginning or end of a line. Although Celtic influence on the Unix system predominates over Hebraic, greptz means "belch" in Yiddish. Output from the grep program looks remarkably similar. %% What does "rc" stand for, and why are there so many "rc" files? The letters stand for Run-Com, the name of a command file on early DEC operating systems. The Unix system's original "rc" file was /etc/rc, which executes commands when the system "boots" (or starts up). The name spread to the C shell startup file .cshrc, the Mail startup file .mailrc, the Berknet initialization file .netrc, and the Netnews startup file .newsrc. Programmers could have chosen a better suffix (such as init) but they wanted to retain a realm of mystery in the system. %% What does GAY stand for? Got Aids Yet? %% What does a hippopotamus have to come up with in order to get a Ph.D.? A hippo-thesis!! %% What does a man do standing up, a woman do sitting down, and a dog do with one leg raised? Shake hands. %% What does a sacred chao say? MU! %% What does an Englishman's beer bottle say on the bottom? OPEN OTHER END. %% What does an Englishman's stepladder say at the top? STOP HERE. %% What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) %% What does it all mean? %% What does not destroy me, makes me strong. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) %% What does this red button do? %% What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) %% What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. -- Edward Abbey %% What else can you do at 3:00am? %% What ever happened to happily ever after? %% What exactly classifies as a "Cryptic statement" %% What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them? -- Roger von Oech %% What foods these morsels be! %% What fools these morals be! %% What fools these mortals be. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. - A.D. 65) %% What fools these mortals be. -- Smaug %% What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art. -- Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907) %% What goes 'round the house and 'round the house and peeps in at every hole? The sun %% What goes around, comes around. %% What goes in must come back out. -- Van Mizzell, Jr. %% What goes in, comes out. -- Richard N. Farmer %% What goes round the house And through the forest Without leaving a track? The wind %% What goes siss boom bah? An exploding sheep. %% What goes through the door without pinching itself Sits on the stove with burning itself, Sits on the table and is not ashamed. Sunlight %% What goes up and down and around the house, then sits in a corner? A broom %% What goes up hs probably been doused with petrol. %% What goes up must come down - and can be expected to do so in the middle of your job. %% What good is it if you talk in flowers, and they think in pastry? %% What good is it to me, after all, if there is an authority always busy to see to the tranquil enjoyment of my pleasures and going ahead to brush all dangers away from my path without giving me even the trouble to think about it, if that authority, which protects me from the smallest thorns on my journey, is also the absolute master of my liberty and of my life? -- Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), Democracy in America %% What grows in the woods and has a body and leaves, Then leaves the woods and carries a body and soul? A cradle %% What happened in the past is over. Why can't you forget it! %% What happened last night can happen again. %% What happened to the elephant who used sheep for tampons?? She got toxic flock syndrome! %% What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore -- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over -- Like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load. Or does it explode? -- Langston Hughes %% What happens when the hardware meets the software on the motherboard? You spawn.... %% What has 300 legs and seven teeth? The front row at a Wille Nelson show. %% What has a face, but no mouth? A clock %% What has a head like a cat Feet like a cat A tail like a cat But isn't a cat Kitten %% What has a head, but can't think? A match %% What has a head, But has no hair nor eyes? A nail %% What has legs, but can't walk? A chair, table, or bed %% What has one eye, one ear, one leg, and one arm? Kiev triplets. %% What has orange hair, big feet, and comes out of a test tube? Bozo the Clone. %% What has posterity ever done for me? %% What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees, Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? %% What has teeth, but can't eat? A comb or a saw %% What hath Bob wrought? %% What hath god wrought? %% What have you learned, Dorothy? %% What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? -- Edward Abbey %% What if they gave a war and only one side came? -- Lucifer %% What is "Free" to me, but being masterless -- and maybe hungry? -- Cullen the Fool %% What is 40 acres and has two stones on it? Kiev graveyard. %% What is Helen Keller's favorite color ? Corduroy ! %% What is a Communist? One who hath yearnings For equal division of unequal earnings. Idler or bungler, or both, he is willing To fork out his copper and pocket a shilling. -- Ebenezer Elliot %% What is a Meeting? It is a place where good ideas go to die. %% What is a bit blit? This is a transfer of pixels (dots) from one location in memory, or on the screen, to another. Bit blits are commonly used on bit-map display terminals. The word "blit" comes with an extra vowel from the word "blt," meaning block transfer. Not only that, "blt" could have been confused with a sandwich. %% What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. -- Aristotle %% What is a robot you ask? Well, the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy holds the definition. The Encyclopedia Galactica defines a robot as a mechanical apparatus designed to do the work of a man. The marketing division of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation defines a robot as 'Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With'. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy defines the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes', with a footnote to effect that the editors would welcome applications from anyone interested in taking over the post of robotics correspondent. Curiously enough, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica that had the good fortune to fall through a time warp from a thousand years in the future defined the marketing division of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as 'a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came'. %% What is a woman's favorite out-door sport? Shopping %% What is algebra, exactly? Is it one of those three-cornered things? -- J. M. Barrie %% What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? -- Norman Douglas (1868-1952) %% What is always before you but you can never see it? Your future %% What is ambition? 'Tis a glorious cheat. Angels of light walk not so dazzlingly the sapphire walls of heaven. -- Willis %% What is an adult? A child blown up by age. -- Simone de Beauvoir, "La Femme rompue", 1967 %% What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. %% What is aristocracy? A corporation of the best, of the bravest. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) %% What is becoming is honest, and whatever is honest must always be becoming. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) %% What is black and white and black and white and black and white and black and white. A nun rolling down a hill. %% What is bought by the yard and worn by the foot? Carpet %% What is brown and white, smooth, cold and deadly? - Shark infested chocolate swirl ice cream. %% What is charred, gives off smoke, and hangs from the ceiling? A stupid electrician. %% What is constitutional may still be unwise. -- Zechariah Chaffe, Jr. (1885-1957) %% What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better. -- Wendell Phillips %% What is food to one, is to others bitter poison. -- Titus Lucretius Carus %% What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for yourself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and the exercise of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing. -- Archibald MacLeash (b. 1892) %% What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? Everything that is born of weakness. Not contentedness but more power; not peace but war; not virtue but fitness. The weak and the failures shall perish: first principle of our love of man. And they shall even be given every possible assistance. What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and all the weak: Christianity. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) %% What is honored in a country will be cultivated there. %% What is it I got that makes them twitch? -- Marilyn Monroe %% What is it that shapes a species? -- Louis Wu "Ringworld" %% What is it that you can not hold for five minutes, Yet it be as light as a feather? Your breath %% What is it that He who buys it does not use it He who makes it does not use it He who uses it, does not see or feel it? A coffin %% What is it that He who makes it, does not use it He who takes it, does not know it He who knows it, does not want it. Counterfeit money %% What is it when, after breaking several bones, you are about to leave the hospital, and you are told that you have to stay longer? It's a retraction. %% What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough: for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca, "Life is a Dream" %% What is love but a second-hand emotion? -- Tina Turner %% What is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. -- Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) %% What is more difficult than getting an ELEPHANT into a car? Getting an PREGNANT ELEPHANT into a car. What is more difficult than getting an PREGNANT ELEPHANT into a car? Getting an ELEPHANT PREGNANTED in a car. %% What is more fearsome than a pitbull with AIDS? The guy that gave it to him. %% What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at Smith. %% What is neither in the house, Nor out of the house, Yet is still part of the house? A window %% What is now proved was once only imagin'd. -- William H. Blake (1757-1827) %% What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom? -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) %% What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love. -- Edward Abbey %% What is red and glows? Russians near Kiev. [One day later] What is blond, blue eyed, and glows? Swedes. [Five days later] What is tan and glows? Californians on the beach. %% What is research but a blind date with knowledge? -- Will Harvey %% What is small and red and screams in pain? --A peeled baby rolled in salt!!! %% What is status?... Status is when the President calls you for your opinion. Uh, no... Status is when the President calls you in to discuss a problem with him. Uh, that still ain't right... STATUS is when you're in the Oval Office talking to the President, and the phone rings. The President picks it up, listens for a minute, and hands it to you, saying, "It's for you." %% What is that? I know that object! -- Cyberleader, EARTHSHOCK %% What is that Of which the common sort is best? Sense %% What is the "New World Order"? Simple. The "New World Order" is where the New World gives all the orders. %% What is the answer to life the universe and everything? ... 42! %% What is the approximate air speed of an unladen swallow ? %% What is the best thing to make in a hurry? Haste %% What is the difference between a dead snake in the middle of the road and a dead lawyer in the middle of the road? The snake has skid marks in front of it... %% What is the difference between a deer fleeing from pursuers and a decrepit witch? One is a hunted stag, the other is a stunted hag. %% What is the difference between a duck? %% What is the difference between a fox and a pig? the number of drinks you've had. %% What is the difference between a porcupine and a school bus? A porcupine has a bunch of pricks on the outside. %% What is the difference between a prostitute, a nymphomanic and a JAP? A prostitute says "Are you done yet?" A nymphomanic says "You done already!!" A JAP says "Beige,.....I think I'll paint the ceiling beige" %% What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector ? The taxidermist takes only your skin. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) %% What is the difference between a train carriage, and a mis-carriage?? --You can't possibly eat a mis-carriage!!! %% What is the difference between a used-car salesman and a computer salesman? The used-car salesman knows when he's lying to you! %% What is the difference between a wife and a job? After ten years the job still sucks. %% What is the difficulty with writing a PDP-8 program to emulate Jerry Ford? Figuring out what to do with the other 3K. %% What is the largest fish in the world? A whale you say? - WRONG. A whale is a mammal. The largest fish in the world is the whale shark - measuring over 70 feet. %% What is the least dangerous kind of robbery? %% What is the most heavily armored vehicle in the world? An Iranian Bookmobile! %% What is the name of the President of Lebanon? But answer quickly! %% What is the nature of that 'superior' world to which they sacrifice the world that exists? The mystics of spirit curse matter, the mystics of muscle curse profit. The first wish men to profit by renouncing the earth, the second wish to inherit the earth by renouncing all profit. -- John Galt %% What is the new name for Russia (OK, the USSR)? The Great Melting Pot. %% What is the point of building a bridge that won't last? %% What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. -- Edward Abbey %% What is the relationship between (1) a wino who throws his whiskey corks in the river, (2) a bag-boy in a soft-drink store, and (3) someone who stuffs his pant-legs inside his socks? Respectively, they are a cork soaker, a Coke sacker, and a sock tucker. %% What is the robbing of a bank compared to the FOUNDING of a bank? -- Bertolt Brecht %% What is the sound of one hand clapping? %% What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) %% What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each lov'd one blotted from life's page, and be alone on earth as I am now. -- Byron %% What is this thing called LISP? %% What is this, a Chinese fire drill? -- Sun Tzu %% What is this: FO FI FO - FO FO FI FO ? Leon Spinks' phone number. %% What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature. -- Voltaire (1694-1778) %% What is virtual memory? Virtual memory allows you to use more memory than your machine has. If something is transparent, it's there, but you can't see it; if something is virtual, you can see it, but it isn't there. Virtual memory is implemented by paging, in which only the parts (called pages) of programs actually used are brought into memory. When the memory required by a program exceeds the physical memory of the machine, unused pages are swapped out to disk. %% What is your favorite position? %% What is your name? What is your quest?... What is your favorite color? %% What kind of beer do sysadmins drink? root %% What kind of men go to heaven? Dead men %% What kind of sordid business are you on now? I mean, man, whither goest thou? Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? -- Jack Kerouac %% What law? I did not give it up -- it has ceased to exist. But I am still working in the profession I had chosen, which was that of serving the cause of justice ... No, justice has not ceased to exist. How could it? It is possible for men to abandon their sight of it, and then it is justice that destroys them. But it is not possible for justice to go out of existence, because one is an attribute of the other, because justice is the act of acknowledging that which exists. -- Judge Narragansett %% What lives on its own substance and dies when it devours itself? A candle %% What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) %% What made you come to it? My refusal to be born with any original sin. I have never felt guilty of my ability ... I have never felt guilty of being a man ... I saw the root of the world's tragedy, the key to it, and the solution. I saw what had to be done. I went out to do it. -- John Galt %% What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease. -- Jean Paul Richter %% What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely. -- Franklin P. Jones %% What makes the best eavesdropper? Icicle %% What makes the virgin flee in horror -- Threats of kidnapping or rape? No: her father plans tomorrow To graft her brain into an ape. %% What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are. %% What makes you think graduate school is supposed to be satisfying? -- Erica Jong, "Fear of Flying" %% What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence. -- Michelct %% What men learn from history is that men do not learn from history. %% What millions died that Caesar might be great! -- Campbell %% What monster do you want to genocide (Type the letter)? %% What must be noted about the many fallen political celebrities of recent years is that salvation eluded them, though they knew all the people in Washington who are useful to know. -- Daniel S. Greenberg %% What must be, shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing. -- Seneca %% What no spouse of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. %% What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) %% What on earth would a man do with himself if something did not stand in his way? -- Herbert George Wells (1866-1946) %% What one fool can do, another can. -- Ancient Simian Proverb %% What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most. -- Edward Abbey %% What pains others pleasures me, At home am I in Lisp or C; There i couch in ecstasy, 'Til debugger's poke i flee, Into kernel memory. In system space, system space, there shall i fare-- Inside of a VAX on a silicon square. %% What passes for optimism is most often the effect on an intellectual error. -- Raymond Aron, "The Opium of the Intellectuals", 1957 %% What passes for wom an's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency. %% What position are you trying to work yourself into? %% What profession should one follow if he wants to cut a figure in the world? Sculptor %% What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts -- not the facts themselves. -- Jerome Cohen %% What ring, Right or Left? %% What rolls down stairs alone or in pairs Rolls over your neighbor's dog? What's great for a snack and fits on your back? It's Log, Log, Log! -- "The Log Song", from Ren & Stimpy %% What rose is high in the public esteem? Heroes %% What runs all around a castle, without moving at all? The wall %% What scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? -- J. D. Farley %% What seems to be no test, no struggle, is the most deceiving test of all. -- Ezra Taft Benson %% What segment's this, that, laid to rest Why lies it here, on public disk On FHA0, is sleeping? And why is it now unprotected? What system file, lay here a while A bug in incant, made it thus. While hackers around it were weeping? The problem has not been corrected. This, this is "acct.run," Mount, mount all your DECtapes now Accounting file for everyone. And copy the file somehow, somehow. Dump, dump it and type it out, Dump, dump it and type it out, The file, the highseg of login. The file, the highseg of login. -- to Greensleeves %% What shall we do to be saved? In politics, establish a constitutional cooperative society or world government. In economics, find working compromises between free enterprise and socialism. -- Arnold Toynbee %% What should I do with the #? %% What should you do if you pass an elephant? Flush it down and hope it doesn't clog the pipes! %% What sin has not been committed in the name of efficiency? %% What sings morning, noon and night, And when the fire's out, shuts up tight? A teakettle %% What soon grows old? Gratitude. -- Aristotle %% What sort of man reads "Playboy?" %% What strange animal is it that has no head, seven legs, and a tail? A cat with head in a three legged pot %% What strange things one gets nostalgic about. %% What the eye beholds And the heart covets, Let the hand boldly seize!. %% What the gods get away with, the cows don't. %% What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee. %% What the heck? %% What the hell's going on up there, Jim? Sick Bay is in a state of chaos! -- Leonard ("Bones") McCoy %% What the orators want in depth, they give you in length. -- Montesquieu %% What this country needs ia a law that when children grow up and leave home they have to take their dogs, cats, turtles, snakes and canaries with them. -- Bill Vaughn %% What this country needs is a good no-scent cigar. -- William D. Tammeus %% What this country needs is a safety net for people who jump to conclusions. -- B. M. Smith %% What this country needs is a song for unsung heros. -- Angie Papadakis %% What this country needs is a toller hog, for people to live higher off. -- Don Riley %% What this country needs is a transmission that will shift the blame. -- Louis Ginsberg %% What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. -- John Fischer %% What this country really needs is to get out the voters the way it gets out the candidates. %% What this department needs is a really good inflatable doll. %% What this project needs is more whimsy. %% What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of Hell, What thou lovest well is thy true heritage. -- Ezra Pound, Pisan Cantos, LXXXI %% What time is it? You mean right NOW? -- Yogi Berra %% What time is it? I don't know, it keeps changing. %% What to do in case of an alien attack: 1) Hide beneath the seat of your plane and look away. 2) Avoid eye contact. 3) If there are no eyes, avoid all contact. -- The Firesign Theatre, "Everything you know is Wrong" %% What to say to annoy a performance artist: "Hey, I saw something just like that on The Gong Show!" -- Matt Groening %% What two things in the air will get a woman pregnant? Her legs. %% What upsets me is not that you lied to me, but that from now on I can no longer believe you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) %% What use have I for such a quantity of plastic fruit? %% What walks in the water with its head down? The nails in a horseshoe when the horse walks through water %% What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. -- Norman Cousins %% What was the phrase Tasha Yar hated the most? "Insufficient Data" ;-> %% What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens. -- Bengamin Disraeli %% What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command. -- Havelock Ellis (1859-1939), "The Dance of Life", 1923 %% What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein %% What we do not understand we do not possess. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) %% What we do with our leisure time is almost essential to our success as what we do during our working hours. %% What we frankly give, forever is our own. -- George Granville %% What we have here is a failure to communicate. -- Strother Martin %% What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) %% What we know is not as important as who we are. %% What we need around here is a good cluster! %% What we need is a good strategic thinker, and we don't have one. -- A White House official, 1989 %% What we needs is better poof readers. (actual printed material): Woman wanted to help prepare males for an elderly woman. Con operated washers and dryers for sale. We wish that the young actor and the director had given the part more pizza. A. K. who is attending college in Florida, spent the holidays with her payments. Hear an excellent speaker and heave a lealthy lunch. %% What we see depends on mainly what we look for. -- John Lubbock %% What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) %% What we wish, that we readily believe. -- Demosthenes %% What were Liberace's last words? "I'm sorry to leave my friends behind." %% What were Tarzan's last words? Who greased the vine? %% What were the greatest banking transactions mentioned in the Bible? 1) When Pharaoh's daughter went into the bulrushs and came out with a little prophet 2) When Moses led the Children of Israel to the Banks of the Jordan %% What were the shuttle passenger's last words? ... Bud Light. %% What will the next pope's name be? George Ringo. %% What will you do if all your problems aren't solved by the time you die? %% What with female Marines, Sergeant Trilling Finds his life in the Corps more fulfilling. In the daytime, his skill Is in close-order drill, While at night, it's in close-ardor drilling! %% What won't go up the chimney up, But will go up the chimney down? What won't go down the chimney up, But will go down the chimney down? An umbrella %% What would we do without erogenous zones? %% What would you call a horny Eskimo dwarf? A frigid midget with a rigid digit. %% What you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying. %% What you are thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) %% What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. -- Confucius %% What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) %% What you don't do is always more important than what you do do. %% What you don't know can't hurt you. %% What you don't know won't help you much either. -- D. Bennett %% What you give is what you get! %% What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs. -- Osborne %% What you own is your own kingdom, What you do is your own glory, What you love is your own power, What you live is your own story. In your head is the answer, Let it guide you along. Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song. -- Neil Peart, Rush %% What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley, "Stormqueen" %% What you see is rarely what you get. %% What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you. -- George Adams %% What you think of yourself is more important than what others think of you. -- Seneca %% What! canst thou say all this and never blush? -- William Shakespeare %% What! Time for coffee again! %% What! shall this speech be spoke for our excuse? Or shall we on without apology? -- William Shakespeare %% What!? Me worry? -- Alfred E. Newman %% What's Inside? %% What's Irish and stays out all night? Pati O'furniture. %% What's a Vanilli? 2000 guys lip-synching poorly. %% What's a device driver? On the Unix system, all devices are supposed to look like a file. A device driver implements typical file operations, such as open, read and write, on a file. For example, a tape device driver allows you to employ Unix system commands such as tar on that tape drive. A disk driver keeps track of sectors, tracks, and cylinders, so that you don't have to worry about these details. %% What's a girl like you doing in a nice place like this? %% What's a girl like you doing in a place like this? ... and not worrying? %% What's a jewish dilemma?? Free ham. %% What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this? %% What's a nice person like me doing in a place like this? %% What's a nice person like me doing in an awful place like this? %% What's a place like this doing to a nice girl like you? %% What's a wrench? A place where people from New York raise cattle. %% What's a' matter? Can't cut the mustard? %% What's all the fuss about? The MIRV is in the great American tradition of bombs bursting in air. %% What's all the gaudy glitter of a crown? What but the glaring meteor of ambition, that leads the wretch benighted in his errors, points to the gulf and shines upon destruction? -- Brooke %% What's all this bru-ha-ha? %% What's an Italian curse? Innuendo. %% What's another word for Thesaurus? -- Steven Wright %% What's big and green, lives in a swamp, and has an IQ of 140? A platoon of marines. %% What's big and grey and shatters glass when it sings? Ella Phantzgerald ! %% What's black and white and red all over? A burning firehouse dog. %% What's black and white and red all over? A nun with a nosebleed. %% What's black and white and red all over? An embarrassed zebra. %% What's black and white and red all over? Certainly not the Halifax newspapers. %% What's black and yellow and full of little Crispy Critters? A burnt schoolbus. %% What's blue and green and sits in the corner? Same baby two weeks later. %% What's blue and sits in the corner? A dead baby in a baggie. %% What's brown and sits on a stool? Beethoven's last movement. %% What's brown and sticky? A stick! %% What's done to children, they will do to society. %% What's easier to load on a truck- babies or bricks? Babies - you can't use a pitchfork on bricks %% What's even grosser than a barrel full of dead babies? A baby on the bottom eating his way out. What's even grosser? The babies aren't dead, they're just sleeping! %% What's everyone making all the fuss about? %% What's gone, and what's past help, should be past grief. -- William Shakespeare %% What's good besides the wire? Cheese. Sleeping plates. Love (impractical). Wild skin dye jobs. Freedom, security, self-respect. . . . Brandy poured in coffee. Movies. -- Louis Wu "The Ringworld Engineers" %% What's good enough for our ancestors is good enough for us. %% What's good politics is bad economics; what's bad politics is good economics; what's good economics is bad politics; what's bad economics is good politics. -- Eugene W. Baer [Or, more compactly, "What's good politics is bad economics and vice versa, vice versa.] %% What's green and red and goes 100 mph? A frog in a blender. %% What's green and takes ten minutes to drink? A Grant Check. %% What's grey and sings ? Harry Elephante ! %% What's grey and wears funny glasses when it sings? Elephanton John ! %% What's in a name? That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet. %% What's long, black and smelly? The unemployment line. %% What's more miserable than discontent? -- William Shakespeare %% What's of no use to you, yet you can't go without it? Your shadow %% What's on the floor of the old hen-house? Doo-doo, doo-doo. -- Foghorn Leghorn %% What's pink and white and blue all over? A baby in a baggie What's pink and white and green all over? The same one after a week %% What's pink and white and red all over? A baby chewing on razor blades %% What's pink and white and swings? A baby on a meat-hook %% What's red and hangs in trees? Baby shot out of a lawn mower. %% What's right is what's left after you've done everything else wrong. %% What's so funny 'bout peace, love, and understanding? %% What's tennis without a racket? %% What's the best way to accelerate a Macintosh? At 9.8 meters per second squared %% What's the difference between Cindy Lauper and the Panama Canal? The Panama Canal is a busy ditch. %% What's the difference between Joan Rivers and Bigfoot? Bigfoot has big feet. %% What's the difference between a 4 year research grant and a 4 year athletic scholarship? The athletic scholarship comes with a grant of immunity. %% What's the difference between a Lada and a Jehovah's Witness? You can shut the door on a Jehovah's Witness. %% What's the difference between a bear and an ant? About 2,000 pounds. %% What's the difference between a blonde and a shopping cart? The cart has a mind of its own. %% What's the difference between a bond and a bond trader? Eventually, the bond will mature. %% What's the difference between a fox and a pig? About 8 or 9 drinks. %% What's the difference between a pervert and a kinky person? The pervert will use a feather and the kinky person will use the whole chicken. %% What's the difference between a physicist and a bucket of crap? The bucket. %% What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches %% What's the difference between a politician and a hooker? There are some things a hooker won't do for money. %% What's the difference between a skinny girl and a counterfeit note? One is a phony buck! %% What's the difference between a sorority and a circus? A circus is a cunning array of stunts. %% What's the difference between a sorority girl and a Mercedes? Not everyone has been in a Mercedes. %% What's the difference between a sorority girl and a urinal? A urinal doesn't follow you around for three weeks after you've used it. %% What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money. -- Edward Abbey %% What's the difference between hardware and software ? You can kick the hardware..... %% What's the difference between light and hard? You can go to sleep with a light on. %% What's the difference between snot and cauliflower? Kids will eat snot. %% What's the difference between storing bowling balls and dead babies? Bowling balls have to be carefully stacked to keep them from rolling all over. Dead babies you just hang on meathooks. %% What's the difference between the 80's and the 50's? In the 80's, a man walks into a drugstore and states loudly, "I'd like some condoms," then whispers, "and some cigarettes." %% What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger. -- Edward Abbey %% What's the good of being grown-up if you can't be childish? %% What's the long-range forecast for Kiev? Three days. %% What's the matter with the world? Why, there ain't but one thing wrong with every one of us--and that's "selfishness." -- Will Rogers %% What's the matter, can't you read? Now you'd best start over. %% What's the metric unit of pain? The Angstrom. %% What's the new halfback's name?" asked the coach of the trainer. "Ossowinsinsiski," the trainer answered. "Good," said the coach with satisfaction. "Put him on the first team. Boy, will I get even with those wise newspaper reporters!" %% What's the point-spread on World War III? -- Ronald W. Reagan %% What's the soup of the day in Kiev??? MUSHROOM %% What's the ugliest part of your body? What's the ugliest part of your body? Some say your nose, Some say your toes, But I think it's your mind. -- Frank Zappa (1965) %% What's the weather forecast for Kiev? Cloudy and 6000 degrees. %% What's the worst kind of fare to live on? Warfare %% What's to become of us? %% What's worse (better?) than running over a dead baby? ...SKIDDING over it. %% What's worse than a truckload of dead babies? A truckload of dead babies with a live one at the bottom eating his way out. %% What's worse than nailing a dead baby to a tree? ...RIPPING IT OFF! %% What's worth doing is worth doing for money. -- Joseph Donahue %% What's wrong with Dave? Is he sick? No, it's just that he's got . . . ring around the collar! %% What's wrong with a little harmless crime once in a while? -- M. Blaise %% What's wrong with our safety net is that too many people are using it as a hammock. -- Rush Limbaugh on welfare %% What's wrong with this picture? %% What's yellow and always points north? A magnetic banana. %% What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean. -- Christopher Fry %% What, still alive at twenty-two, A clean upstanding chap like you? Sure, if your throat 'tis hard to slit, Slit your girl's, and swing for it. Like enough, you won't be glad, When they come to hang you, lad: But bacon's not the only thing That's cured by hanging from a string. So, when the spilt ink of the night Spreads o'er the blotting pad of light, Lads whose job is still to do Shall whet their knives, and think of you. -- Hugh Kingsmill %% What....we have here......is a FAILure to commun'cate. %% What? %% What? Still programming in basic? %% What? You don't trust me? Why, only last week I patched a running VMS system and it survived for over thirty seconds. Oh, well. %% Whatever General Sherman did on his march through Georgia, we are now even. %% Whatever became of Strange de Jim? Well, he found a substitute for cocaine: "You cover Q-tips with sandpaper and ram them up your nostrils as far as they will go. Then you sniff talcum powder while shredding hundred dollar bills." -- Herb Caen [as discovered in Marya Schrier's scrapbook] %% Whatever creates the greatest inconvenience for the largest number must happen. -- Red Smith %% Whatever grocery line you choose will automatically slow to a crawl. %% Whatever happened to Saturday nights, to finding a sweetheart and holding her tight? %% Whatever happens in government could have happened differently and it usually would have been better if it had. -- Prof. Charles Frankel %% Whatever happens, act as if it was supposed to happen that way! %% Whatever isn't forbidden is required. -- Murray Gell-Mann %% Whatever it is I'm against it. %% Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts. -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) %% Whatever natural right men have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others. -- Grenville %% Whatever occurs from love is always beyond good and evil. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) %% Whatever their other contributions to our society, lawyers could be an important source of protein. -- Guindon %% Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues. -- Edward Abbey %% Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought of as half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult. -- Charlotte Whitton %% Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men to win them. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) %% Whatever you spent a fortune on today, goes on sale tomorrow. %% Whatever you want to do, you have to do something else first. -- Art Kosatka %% Whats Waldhiemers disease? It's when you grow old and forget your a nazi. %% Whats the definition of a metallurgist? A man who can tell if a platinum blonde is a virgin metal or a common ore. %% Wheeeeee! %% Wheels within wheels in a spiral array, A pattern so grand and complex. Time after time we lose sight of the way, Our causes can't see their effects ... Art as expression, not as market campaigns. We'll still capture our imaginations. Given the same state of integrity, It will surely help us along. The most endangered species, the honest man. Will it still survive annihilation? Forming a world, state of integrity, Sensitive, open and strong. -- Neil Peart, Rush %% When 911 won't work .357 will! %% When Boy Scouts do it, it's intense. %% When Cthulhu calls, he calls collect %% When Cypress was shipping lots of SPARC chips, its publicity-hungry CEO (Thurman J. Rodgers) used to say of the competitive R3000/R4000: "MIPS is dog meat". Now it seems he is about to start selling dog meat. Of course this is reminiscent of another publicity-hungry CEO (Scooter McNealy) who used to say "Sun will ship Motif over my dead body." It didn't come true. Naturally, since the Cypress-Performance merger is not yet (publicly) complete, a lot can happen. But I will gladly bet anybody a case of Caffeine Free Diet Cherry Coke Classic that Thurman Rodgers will *NOT* say "MIPS isn't dog meat any more." -- Mark Johnson, mjohnson@netcom7.Netcom.COM %% When God created man, She was only testing. %% When God saw how faulty was man He tried again and made woman. As to why he then stopped there are two opinions. One of them is woman's. -- DeGourmont %% When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read." -- Hilaire Belloc %% When I bought some new glasses a few months ago, the lady kept on saying how great the lenses were that I was getting. She kept on saying, ``You can shoot a bullet right through them.'' I figured you could do this with most lenses, but I didn't say anything. %% When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving. -- Steven Wright %% When I grow up, I want to be a CRAY. %% When I grow up, I want to be a Porsche. -- "Bumper Snickers" %% When I have one foot in the grave I will tell the truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me, and say, "Do what you like now." -- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) %% When I hear the word "Culture" I pick up my Browning. -- Hanns Johst (1890-?) %% When I hear the word "culture", I reach for my checkbook. -- Edward Abbey %% When I left the meeting, I had the definite impression that I had found the same game as with the seals: management reducing criteria and accepting more and more errors that weren't designed into the device, while the engineers are screaming from below, "HELP!" and "This is a RED ALERT!" -- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988), about NASA, "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" %% When I look at my children, I often wish I had remained a virgin. -- Lillian Carter I told the truth Lord! How can I learn any moral lesson if you keep confusing me like this. -- Philipe The Mouse, "Ladyhawke" %% When I need a little free advice about Saddam Hussein, I turn to country music. -- President George Bush %% When I need something to help me unwind I get a 6-foot baby with a one-track mind. . . %% When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not more of a pastime to her than she is to me? -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) %% When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. -- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) %% When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly... I think Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it. -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) %% When I say the magic word to all these people, they will vanish forever. I will then say the magic words to you, and you, too, will vanish -- never to be seen again. -- Kurt Vonnegut Jr., "Between Time and Timbuktu" %% When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck. -- Richard Cardinal Cushing %% When I see a congressman giving his opinion on something, I always wonder if it represents his *real* opinion or if it represents an opinion that he's designed in order to be elected. It seems to be a central problem for politicians. So I often wonder: what is the relation of integrity to working in the government? -- Richard Phillips Feynman (1918-1988), "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" %% When I see a merchant over-polite to his customer, begging them to take a little brandy, and throwing his goods on the counter, thinks I, that man has an axe to grind. -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) %% When I take the humor of a thing once, I am like your tailor's needle -- I go through. -- Ben Johnson %% When I think about myself, Sixty years in these folks' world I almost laugh myself to death, The child I works for calls me girl My life has been one great big joke, I say "Yes ma'am" for working's sake. A dance that's walked Too proud to bend A song that's spoke, Too poor to break, I laugh so hard I almost choke I laugh until my stomach ache, When I think about myself. When I think about myself. My folks can make me split my side, I laughed so hard I nearly died, The tales they tell, sound just like lying, They grow the fruit, But eat the rind, I laugh until I start to crying, When I think about my folks. -- Maya Angelou %% When I want some shit, I'll squeeze your head. -- Bob Dickson %% When I want to buy up any politicians I always find the anti-monopolists the most purchasable. They don't come so high. -- William H. Vanderbilt (1821-1885) %% When I was 16, I thought there was no hope for my father. By the time I was 20, he had made great improvement. %% When I was a Brownie, I ate all the cookies. -- Madonna %% When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it. -- Clarence S. Darrow (1857-1938) %% When I was a boy, my family was poor. We couldn't buy food to eat. On Halloween we had to go bobbing for gerbils. %% When I was a child, love to me was what the sea is to a fish: something you swim in while you are going about the important affairs of life. -- P. L. Travers %% When I was a little boy, I had but a little wit, 'Tis a long time ago, and I have no more yet; Nor ever ever shall, until that I die, For the longer I live the more fool am I. -- "Wit and Mirth, an Antidote against Melonchaly (1684)" %% When I was in college, there were a lot of four-letter words you couldn't say in front of girls. Now you can say them. But you can't say "girls". %% When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am 50, I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things--including the fear of childishness and the desire to be grown-up. -- C. S. Lewis %% When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me. -- John Wesley %% When I was young we didn't have MTV; we had to take drugs and go to concerts. -- Steven Pearl %% When I was young, I used to have successes with women because I was young. Now I have successes with women because I am old. Middle age was the hardest part. -- Artur Rubinstein %% When I woke up this morning, my girlfriend asked if I had slept well. I said,'no, I made a few mistakes.' -- Steve Wright %% When I works, I works hard. When I sits, I sits loose. When I thinks, I falls asleep. %% When I'm gone, boxing will be nothing again. The fans with the cigars and the hats turned down'll be there, but no more housewives and little men in the street and foreign presidents. It's goin' to be back to the fighter who comes to town, smells a flower, visits a hospital, blows a horn and says he's in shape. Old hat. I was the onliest boxer in history people asked questions like a senator. -- Muhammad Ali %% When I'm good, I'm great; but when I'm bad, I'm better. -- Mae West %% When Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's hero, Frankenstein, endowed his synthetic robot with a human heart, the monster which before had been a useful mechanical servant suddenly became an uncontrollable force. Our ancestors feared that corporations had no conscience. We are treated to the colder, more modern fear that, perhaps they do. -- A. A. Berle, Jr. (1895-1971) %% When Polly's in trouble I am not slow, it's hip hip hip and away I go! -- Underdog %% When Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody's gonna jump for joy. %% When Shakespeare awakes with a scream All his member a-drippin' with cream, 'Tis just the commission Of nocturnal emission, Which he dubs, "A Mid-Slumber Night-Stream." %% When Snow White turns on with the dwarfs she probably winds up feeling Dopey. %% When Will Tyree invited me to climb the Direct North Buttress (DNB) on Middle Cathedral with him, I had been climbing for exactly six months. That didn't matter to him, though, because I was from Southern California, where all those ghastly face climbs are. I didn't tell Will I hadn't climbed any of them. I also didn't tell Will that, aside from The Trough (5.1) at Tahquitz, the longest climb I had yet accomplished was a two-pitch route on Arch Rock. Nor did I tell Will that he'd be doing most of the leading because I didn't know that until the fourth pitch, when I nearly lost my mind. This was before sticky boots, before EBs even. We wore Robbins boots -- shit-kicking, case-hardened, mortar-proof Royal Robbins boots. And we didn't carry a single nut on the rack. All iron. -- John Long, Direct North Buttress, Middle Cathedral Rock, Yosemite Valley %% When Willie retired from the railway after 50 years' service, the company presented him with an old coach to keep in his garden as a memento. One wet day, his friends found him sitting on the step of the coach, smoking his pipe, with an old sack over his shoulders to keep out the rain. "Hullo, Willie," said his pals, "why are ye no' inside on a day like this?" "Can ye no' see," replied Willie, with a nod toward the coach. "They sent me a non-smoker!" %% When Yahweh your gods has settled you in the land you're about to occupy, and driven out many infidels before you...you're to cut them down and exterminate them. You're to make no compromise with them or show them any mercy. -- Deut. 7:1 (KJV) %% When a bell rings, an angel has gotten his wings. %% When a customer buys a low-grade article, he feels pleased when he pays for it and displeased every time he uses it. But when he buys a well-made article, he feels extravagant when he pays for it and well pleased every time he uses it. -- Herbert N. Casson %% When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. -- Arthur C. Clarke When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion--the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right. -- Isaac Asimov %% When a dog barks at the moon, then it is religion; but when he barks at strangers, it is patriotism! -- David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) %% When a dog howls at the moon, we call it religion. When he barks at strangers, we call it patriotism. -- Edward Abbey %% When a fellow can't read, he's got to think. %% When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money. -- Frank McKinney Hubbard (1868-1930) %% When a girl can read the handwriting on the wall, she may be in the wrong rest room. %% When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. -- Gregory I %% When a girl marries, she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattentions of one. -- Helen Rowland %% When a group of newsmen go out to dinner together, the bill is to be evenly divided among them, regardless of what each one eats and drinks. -- Jack Germond %% When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) %% When a kinky old loner named Chase Had a sitter report to his place And she asked, "There's no kid?" He said, "No, -- There's an id! You're a sitter... so sit on my face!" %% When a lawyer tells his clients he has a sliding fee schedule what he means is that after he bills you it's financially hard to get back on your feet. ... %% When a liar gets pharyngitis, he loses his vice. -- Alan F. G. Lewis %% When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore. -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) %% When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured. -- Chekhov, "The Cherry Orchard" %% When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) %% When a man begins by saying you are too wise to be caught for a sucker, look out! He is going to try a new kind of bait. %% When a man blames others for his failures, it's a good idea to credit others with his successes. -- Howard W. Newton %% When a man finds not repose in himself it is in vain for him to seek it elsewhere. %% When a man gets up to speak, people listen, then look. When a woman gets up, people look; then, if they like what they see, they listen. %% When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. -- Sir Walter Scott %% When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. -- Buddha %% When a man is between the devil and the deep blue sea, his fear of drowning generally triumphs. %% When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. -- Thomas a Kempis %% When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) %% When a man is wrong and won't admit it, he always gets angry. -- Haliburton %% When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) %% When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the last. -- Helen Rowland %% When a man meets his destined ruler, They can be together ten days, And it is not a mistake. Going meets with recognition. %% When a man pulled two guns on convenience store clerk Wazir Jiwi and demanded money, Jiwi asked how much he wanted for one of the guns. He said $100, which Jiwi paid him. Then Jiwi offered to buy the second gun. The robber handed it over, grabbed the cash and headed for the exit. But Jiwi had pushed a button under the counter that automatically locked the door. "He turned to me and asked what was going on," Jiwi says. "I told him to bring the money back and I would let him go. He brought the money back, and I opened the door." %% When a man says, "Get thee behind me, Satan," he's probably ashamed to have even the devil see what he's up to. %% When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute-- and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) %% When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. -- Edward Abbey %% When a man's wife learns to understand him, she usually stops listening to him. %% When a pencil point breaks, the nearest sharpener is exactly 1000 feet away. %% When a person attempts a task, he or she will be thwarted in that task by the unconscious intervention of some other presence (animate or inanimate). Nevertheless, some tasks are completed, since the intervening presence is itself attempting a task and is, of course, subject to interference. %% When a person goes on a diet, the first thing he loses is his temper. %% When a person says that in the interest of saving time, he will summarize a prepared statement, he will talk only three times as long as if he had read the statement in the first place. -- Alan Otten %% When a person stands on his dignity, it's probably because he has very insecure footing. %% When a piercer drops in on you, you will be tempted to hit the ceiling! %% When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere. -- Robert A. Heinlein, "Time Enough For Love" %% When a rechargeable battery starts to die in the middle of a complex calculation, and the user attempts to connect house current, the calculator will clear itself. -- John L. Shelton %% When a student actually does a homework problem, the instructor will not ask for it. -- M. M. Johnston %% When a student named Ben once was rapping On his reason for bra-strap unsnapping, He explained he'd a yen From his study of Zen For the sound of one mammary flapping. %% When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. %% When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) %% When a woman gives me a present I have always two surprises: first is the present, and afterward, having to pay for it. -- Donnay %% When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) %% When a woman says "No!" she really means "Yes!" -- except, of course, when she means "NO!" %% When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management. -- Edward Abbey %% When all else fails, EAT!!! %% When all else fails, try Kate Smith. %% When all is said and done, more is said than done. %% When among apes, one must play the ape. %% When an Englishman asked his wife if she thought his friend could go to a masquerade as Napoleon, she replied, "Of Corsican." %% When an action has its intended effect, it also has other, unintended, effects. %% When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have been correct in the first place. %% When an idea is being pushed because it is "exciting," "new," or "innovative" -- beware. An exciting, new, innovative idea can also be foolish. -- Donald Rumsfeld [If in doubt, don't. Or do what is right. Your best question is often, "Why?"] %% When angry, count to ten, When very angry, count to 750,000 by 37's. %% When arguing with a fool, be sure he isn't doing the same thing. %% When arguments fail, use a blackjack. -- Ed "Spike" O'Donnell %% When articles rise the consumer is the first that suffers, and when they fall he is the last that gains. -- Colton %% When asked for his own [favourite poem], Dylan [Thomas] slowly said, "This is the best poem in the English language," and then repeated gravely and with feeling these lines: I am Thou art He, she, it is We are You are They are. -- Richard Burton (1577-1640), quoted in Andrew Sinclair's "No Man More Magical" %% When asked how much educated men were superior to those uneducated, Aristotle answered, "As much as the living are to the dead." -- Diogenes Laertius %% When asked if he had missed school lately, the boy said `Not a bit.` %% When asked whether the greater problem was ignorance or apathy, he replied "I don't know, and I don't care". %% When asked, "If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here?" Mencken replied, "Why do men go to zoos?" %% When asked, "What is a contingent fee?" a lawyer answered, "A contingent fee to a lawyer means, if I don't win your suit, I get nothing. If I do win it, you get nothing." %% When at first you don't succeed, find someone to blame it on. %% When attempting to predict and forecast macro-economic moves of economic legislation by a politician, never be misled by what he says; instead -- watch what he does. %% When better women are made, computer programmers will make them. %% When bored with the old tried-and-true way, As well as the dildo-in-lieu way, A zookeepers wife Put zest in her life With a fling at "a fabulous gnu way!" %% When brute force is on the march, compromise is the red carpet. When reason is attacked, common sense is not enough. -- Ayn Rand %% When can their glory fade? Oh! the wild charge they made! All the world wondered. Honour the charge they made! Honour the Light Brigade, Noble six hundred! -- Tennyson %% When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before. -- Mae West, in "Klondike Annie" 1936 %% When complimented, respond in kind. When insulted, ignore it. When in doubt, mumble. %% When democracy granted democratic methods to us in times of opposition, this was bound to happen in a democratic system. However, we National Socialists never asserted that we represented a democratic point of view, but we have declared openly that we used the democratic methods only to gain power and that, after assuming the power, we would deny to our adversaries without any consideration the means which were granted to us in times of our opposition. -- Josef Goebbels %% When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. -- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) %% When did you first realize that you were God?" Well, I was praying to the Lord one day, when I suddenly discovered that I was talking to myself." -- "The Ruling Class" %% When does later become never? %% When does the Jewish male fetus become a person (according to religious custom)? When it graduates from Law school. %% When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time. -- General Creighton W. Abrams %% When ev'rybody's tryin' to sleep, I am a back door man, I'm somewhere makin' my midnight creep. I am a back door man, In the mornin' the rooster crow, Well, the men don't know, Somethin' tells me I got to go. But the little girls understand. [chorus] They take me to the doctor, shot full of holes, Nurse try to save a soul. Killed her for murder first degree, Judge what tried let the man go free. [chorus] Stand up, cop's wife cried, don't take him down, Rather be dead six feet in the ground. When you come home, you can eat pork and beans, I eats more chicken than any man's seen. [chorus] -- Willie Dixon, "Backdoor Man", 1961 %% When everyone agrees with me, I know I'm wrong. %% When everything is arranged and ignited, you will experience great joy. %% When everything is worth money, then money is worth nothing. %% When fear admits no hope of safety, Necessity makes dastards valiant men. -- Herrick %% When forced to resort to arms for redress, an appeal to the tribunal of the world was deemed proper for our justification. This was the object of the Declaration of Independence. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) %% When fortune sends a stormy wind, Then show a brave and present mind; And when with too indulgent gales She swells too much, then furl thy sails. -- Creech %% When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right. -- Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) %% When he first came to work at the development center, Ninjei was assigned to support the operating system. One day a manager came into Ninjei's cubicle. "Why are you not working?" asked the manager. "The system has crashed," said Ninjei. The manager frowned. "You are paid to keep the system running!" he exclaimed. "The system has not crashed," said Ninjei. -- The Zen of Programming %% When he got in trouble in the ring, [Ali] imagined a door swung open and inside he could see neon, orange, and green lights blinking, and bats blowing trumpets and alligators blowing trombones, and he could hear snakes screaming. Weird masks and actors' clothes hung on the wall, and if he stepped across the sill and reached for them, he knew that he was committing himself to destruction. -- George Plimpton %% When he is best, he is little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little worse than a beast. -- William Shakespeare %% When he tried to inject his huge whanger A young man aroused his girl's anger. As they strove in the dark She was heard to remark, "What you need is a zeppelin hanger." %% When his company fell on hard times, the boss realized that he'd have to lay off one of his two middle managers. As both Jack and Liz were equally honest and dedicated to their jobs, he was unable to decide which one to fire. To resolve his dilemma, the boss arbitrarily decided that the first to leave his or her desk the next morning would be the one to get the ax. The next morning found Liz at her desk, rubbing her temples. Asking Jack for some aspirin, she headed for the water fountain and that's where the boss caught up with her. "I've got some news for you, Liz," he said. "I've got to lay you or Jack off." "Jack off," she snapped. "I have a headache." %% When in a maze follow the right wall and you will never get lost. %% When in a shop, do as shopkeepers do. %% When in danger, or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout. -- Dorable %% When in distress with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries And look upon myself and curse my fate; Wishing me like to one more rich in fate Featured like him, like him with friends possessed, Desiring this man's art and that man's state, With what I most enjoy contented least. Then in these thoughts, myself almost despising, Haply I think of thee and then my state Like to the lark at break of day arising, From sullen Earth, sings hymns at Heaven's gate. For thy remembered love such sweet joy brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings. -- William Shakespeare, "Sonnets" %% When in doubt, cut it out! -- Surgeon's motto %% When in doubt, do it. It's much easier to apologize than to get permission. -- Grace Murray Hopper %% When in doubt, drink heavily. %% When in doubt, duck. -- Malcolm Forbes %% When in doubt, follow your heart. %% When in doubt, get it out. -- Jody Powell %% When in doubt, lead trump. %% When in doubt, tell the truth. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) %% When in doubt, think. %% When in doubt, use a bigger hammer. %% When in this world the headlines read of those whose hearts are filled with greed who rob and steal from those who need the cry goes up with blinding speed for Underdog (UNDERDOG!) Underdog (UNDERDOG!) Speed of lightning, roar of thunder Fighting all who rob or plunder Underdog (ah-ah-ah-ah) Underdog UNDERDOG! %% When in-laws are outlawed, only outlaws will have in-laws. %% When is a pencil not a pencil? When it's on a Pentagon shopping list - then it's a "portable hand-held communications inscriber." %% When it comes to a choice between kindness and honesty, my vote is for kindness every time -- giving or receiving. %% When it comes to all-out war you use all the troops you have. %% When it comes to facing up to serious problems, each candidate will pledge to appoint a committee. And what is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. But it all sounds great in a campaign speech. -- Richard Long Harkness %% When it is incorrect, it is, at least *authoritatively* incorrect. -- Hitchiker's Guide To The Galaxy %% When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is not necessary to make a decision. -- Lord Falkland %% When it rains, it pours. %% When it was seen that many of the wicked seemed quite untroubled by evil consciences ... then the idea of future suffering was advanced. %% When it's 105 in NYC, it's 78 in LA. When it's 20 below in NYC, it's 78 in LA. Of course, there are 4 million interesting people to talk to in NYC, and 78 in LA. -- Neil Simon, who will probably move back to NYC %% When it's dark enough you can see the stars. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) %% When it's not needed, zoning works fine; when it is essential, it always breaks down. -- John McClaughry %% When living in the fast lane, remember to watch out for the center divider. %% When living on the fringe, make sure to enjoy all the fringe benefits. %% When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. -- Charles Reade %% When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized. -- E. C. Stakman %% When managers hold endless meetings, the programmers write games. When accountants talk of quarterly profits, the development budget is about to be cut. When senior scientists talk blue sky, the clouds are about to roll in. Truly, this is not the Tao of Programming. When managers make commitments, game programs are ignored. When accountants make long-range plans, harmony and order are about to be restored. When senior scientists address the problems at hand, the problems will soon be solved. Truly, this is the Tao of Programming. %% When men grow virtuous in their old age, they are merely making a sacrifice to God of the Devil's leavings. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) %% When must dispute has past, We find our tenets just the same as last. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) %% When my fist clenches crack it open, before I use it and lose my cool. When I smile tell me some bad news, before I laugh and act like a fool. And if I swallow anything evil, put you finger down my throat. And if I shiver please give me a blanket, keep me warm let me wear your coat No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man. Behind blue eyes. No one knows what its like to be hated, to be fated, to telling only lies. -- The WHO %% When my freshman roommate at Cornell found out I was Jewish, she was, at her request, moved to a different room. She told me she didn't think she had ever seen a Jew before. My only response was to begin wearing a small Star of David on a chain around my neck. I had not become a more observing Jew; rather, discovering that the label of Jew was offensive to others made me want to let people know who I was and what I believed in. Similarly, after talking to these young women -- one of whom told me that she didn't think she had ever met a feminist -- I've taken to identifying myself as a feminist in the most unlikely of situations. -- Susan Bolotin, "Voices From the Post-Feminist Generation" %% When neither their poverty nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content. -- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) %% When nothing can possibly go wrong, it will. %% When old friends get together, everything else fades to insignificance. -- War, Famine, Pestilence, and Death %% When once infidelity can persuade men that they shall die like beasts, they will soon be brought to live like beasts also. -- South %% When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. -- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) %% When one considers just what man is, Happy it be that short his span is. -- James Cagney %% When one has an early class, one's roommate will invariable enter the space late at night and suddenly become hyperactive, ill, violent, or all three. %% When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them? -- W. H. Auden %% When one is trying to be elegant and sophisticated, one won't. -- Betty Hartig %% When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art. -- John Trudell %% When one studies the biographies of the founders and leaders of the various religions, one cannot help but be struck by the psychotic -- or at least extremely abnormal -- behavior that has characterized so many of them. Luther, Wesley, and Loyola had hallucinations ("visions"). St. Theresa almost certainly was a hysteric. The book "The Psychotic Personality", by Leon J. Saul and Silas L. Warner, devotes considerable space to the psychotic personalities of Mary Baker Eddy (founder of Christian Science), Joseph Smith (founder of Mormonism), Mohammed, and the Rev. Jim Jones... It seems significant that the founder of Christianity itself, St. Paul, also suffered from epilepsy. -- Frank Zindler, "Religiosity as a Mental Disorder," American Atheist magazine, April 1988, p. 27 %% When one wants to get rid of an unsupportable pressure, one needs hashish. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) %% When one's own day comes, one may create revolution. Starting brings good fortune. No blame. %% When opportunity knocks, say YES, then figure out HOW. %% When other people take a long time to do something, they're slow; when we take a long time, we're thorough. When they don't do something, they're lazy; when we don't, we're too busy. When they succeed, they're lucky; when we do, we deserve it. %% When our best friends are in trouble, there is always something that is not wholly displeasing to us. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld %% When our friends get into power, they aren't our friends anymore. -- M. Stanton Evans %% When oxygen Tech played Hydrogen U. The Game had just begun, when Hydrogen scored two fast points And Oxygen still had none Then Oxygen scored a single goal And thus it did remain, At Hydrogen 2 and Oxygen 1 Called because of rain. %% When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. -- Eric Hoffer %% When people are starving, life is no longer meaningless. -- John Gardner %% When people cease to complain, they cease to think. -- Napoleon Bonaparte %% When people have a job to do, particularly a vital but difficult one, they will invariably put it off until the last possible moment, and most of them will put it off even longer. -- Gordon L. Becker %% When people have trouble communicating, the least they can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer %% When people say nothing, they don't necessarily mean nothing. %% When people you greatly admire seem to be thinking deep thoughts, they are probably thinking about lunch. -- Jason, jcborkow@remus.rutgers.edu %% When pinched on the fanny, Monique Succumbed to a peeved maiden's pique By exclaiming with verve To her pincher, "Some nerve!" "And in your case," he gloated, "some cheek!" %% When played from a sand trap, a ball which does not clear the trap on being struck may be hit again on the roll without counting an extra stroke. In no case will more than two strokes be counted in playing from a trap, since it is only reasonable to assume that if the player had time to concentrate on his shot, instead of hurrying it so as not to delay his partners, he would be out in two. -- Donald A. Metz %% When playing a song on a touch-tone telephone, use the following buttons: 2-0-9-6-2-1 (hold) 2-0-2-6-2-9 (hold) 9-9-2-6 2-9-2-6 2-2-2-6-9-0 (hold) %% When pleasure remains, does it remain a pleasure? -- A Sinbad the Sailor film %% When politicians claim they will build you a "pie in the sky" -- remember whose dough they will be using. -- Lucille J. Goodyear %% When poverty comes in at the door, love flies out at the window. %% When prosperity comes, it's best not to use all of it. %% When provoked into a fight, Just grab his midriff pearly white and withdraw that long and gleaming blade. Now with defense you're equipped, with Jesus you don't take no lip, and anyone you meet will wish he'd prayed. Plastic Jesus, Plastic Jesus ... %% When punished, watch your steps on the stairs! %% When reviewing your notes for a test, the most important ones will be illegible. %% When ribbon grass is pulled up, the sod comes with it. Each according to his kind. Undertakings bring good fortune. %% When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything goes wrong, I'll never have time to regret it. -- Edward Abbey %% When several reporters share a cab on assignment, the reporter in the front seat pays for all. -- Warren Weaver %% When she gets there she knows, if the stores are all closed, with a word she can get what she came for. %% When she hauled ass, it took three trips. %% When singleness is bliss, it's folly to be wives. -- Bill Councelman %% When slides are shown in a darkened room, the instructor will require the students to take notes. -- M. M. Johnston %% When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy. -- Stanislaw Lec %% When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874-1936) %% When some people decide it's time for everyone to make big changes, it means that they want you to change first. %% When some people discover the truth, they just can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it. %% When someone makes a move We'll send them all we've got, Of which we don't approve, John Wayne and Randolph Scott, Who is it that always intervenes? Remember those exciting fighting scenes? U.N. and O.A.S., To the shores of Tripoli, They have their place, I guess, But not to Mississippoli, But first, send the Marines! What do we do? We send the Marines! For might makes right, Members of the corps And till they've seen the light, All hate the thought of war: They've got to be protected, They'd rather kill them off by peaceful means. All their rights respected, Stop calling it aggression-- Till somebody we like can be elected. We hate that expression! We only want the world to know That we support the status quo; They love us everywhere we go, So when in doubt, Send the Marines! -- Tom Lehrer, "Send The Marines" %% When speculation has done its worst, two plus two still equals four. -- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) %% When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. -- Ethiopian proverb %% When stupidity is a sufficient explanation, there is no need to have any recourse to any other. -- Michael Uhlmann %% When subtlety fails us we must make do with cream pies. -- David Brin %% When taxes are due, Americans tend to feel quite bled-white and blue. %% When tempers flare up in the family, Too great severity brings remorse. Good fortune nonetheless. When woman and child dally and laugh, It leads in the end to humiliation. %% When the Beatles first came to America, Ringo Starr revealed the secret of their success: "We have a press agent." %% When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it. -- Billy Sunday %% When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, you could easily count them from left to right, or top to bottom, and the larger and bluer ones were set apart, and the smaller yellowing types pushed off to the corners as bodies of a lower grade ... -- Stanislaw Lem, "The Cyberiad" %% When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings i town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble. -- Edward Abbey %% When the blind lead the blind they will both fall over the cliff. -- Chinese proverb %% When the blossom grows white the potatoes are good. %% When the bosses talk about improving productivity, they are never talking about themselves. %% When the cup is full, carry it level. %% When the dragons grow too mighty To slay with pen or sword, I grow weary of the battle And the storm I walk toward. When all around is madness And there's no safe port in view, I long to turn my path homeward To stop a while with you. When life becomes as bare And as cold as winter skies, There's a beacon in the darkness, In a distant pair of eyes. In vain to search for honor And in vain to search for truth, But these things can still be given, Your love has shown me through. -- Neil Peart, Rush %% When the dream came, I held my breath with my eyes closed. I went insane, like a smoke ring day when the wind blows. %% When the end is lawful, the means are also lawful. -- Hermann Busenbaum (1600-1668) %% When the fencing team tried to wrap up the tournament, they kept getting foiled. %% When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. -- James Matthew Barrie %% When the fox gnaws -- smile! %% When the game-master smiles, it's already too late. %% When the going gets tough, the going gets tough. %% When the going gets tough, the tough eat lunch. %% When the going gets tough, the tough go grab a beer. %% When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping. %% When the going gets tough, the tough hold meetings. %% When the going gets tough, the weird turn pro. -- Hunter S. Thompson %% When the going gets tough... everyone quits. %% When the government bureau's remedies do not match your problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy. %% When the government talks about "raising capital" it means printing it. That's not very creative, but it's what we're going to do. -- Peter F. Drucker %% When the issue is simple, and everyone understands it, debate is interminable. -- Robert Knowles %% When the law is against you, argue the facts. When the facts are against you, argue the law. When both are against you, call the other lawyer names. (To see this in action, watch L.A. Law) %% When the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists, and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion -- the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, right. -- Isaac Asimov %% When the lights are out, all women are fair. -- Plutarch %% When the lodge meeting broke up, Meyer confided to a friend. "Abe, I'm in a terrible pickle! I'm strapped for cash and I haven't the slightest idea where I'm going to get it from!" "I'm glad to hear that" answered Abe. "I was afraid you might have the idea you could borrow from me!" %% When the need arises -- and it does -- you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't farm it out -- that doesn't make it nicer, it makes it worse. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love" %% When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a nail. %% When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense. But men of intellect will believe anything-- if it appeals to their ego, their vanity, their sense of self-importance. -- Edward Abbey %% When the polls are in your favor, flaunt them. %% When the polls are overwhelmingly unfavorable, (a) ridicule and dismiss them or (b) stress the volatility of public opinion. %% When the polls are slightly unfavorable, play for sympathy as a struggling underdog. %% When the polls are too close to call, be surprised at your own strength. %% When the prick stands up, the brains get buried in the ground. -- Old Jewish saying %% When the product is destined to fail, the delivery system will perform perfectly. -- Charles P. Boyle %% When the radio mentions a landslide, cross your fingers and hope it is talking about an election. %% When the revolution comes, count your change. %% When the ribbon grass is pulled up, the sod comes with it. Each according to his kind. Perseverance brings good fortune and success. %% When the rich make war it's the poor that die. -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), "Le Diable et le bon Dieu", 1951 %% When the righteous man turneth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness. -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902) %% When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful. -- Edward Abbey %% When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about. -- Edward Abbey %% When the state is most corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied. -- Tacitus (55?-120?) %% When the sun beats down and I lie on the bench, I can always hear them talk, Me, I'm just a lawnmower... you can tell me by the way I walk. %% When the sun shineth, make hay. -- John Heywood %% When the weight of the paperwork equals the weight of the confounding or perverting history or truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. -- Lady Montague %% When the well is dry, we know the worth of oil. -- Poor Jimmy's Almanac %% When the wind is great, bow before it; when the wind is heavy, yield to it. %% When the witch said Abradacabra, nothing happened. She's a hopeless speller. -- Alan F. G. Lewis %% When the working day is done, o-oh, girls just wanna have fun. %% When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a whore. -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) %% When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best. -- Edward Abbey %% When there are sufficient funds in the checking account, checks take two weeks to clear. When there are insufficient funds, checks clear overnight. %% When there are two conflicting versions of a story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst. -- Avery %% When there is a very long road upon which there is a one-way bridge placed at random and there are two cars only on that road, it follows that: (1) the two cars are going in opposite directions and (2) they will always meet at the bridge. -- B. D. Firstbrook %% When there is an old maid in the house, a watch dog is unnecessary. -- Balzac %% When there is hoarfrost underfoot, Solid ice is not far off. %% When there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. -- Poor Richard %% When they asked a pert baggage name Alice, Who'd been bedded and banged in the palace, "Was he modest or vain?" "Was he regal or plain?" She replied, "He's a jolly good phallus!" %% When they kick at you front door, How you gonna come? With your hands on your head or on the trigger of your gun. When the law break in, How you gonna go? Shot down on the pavement or waiting on death row. -- The Clash %% When they said Canada, I thought it would be up in the mountains somewhere. -- Marilyn Monroe %% When they talk about taxing the rich, they're really talking about taxing the working men and women of this country. -- President George Bush %% When they tell me to stick it where the sun don't shine, I put it in Oregon. %% When they want it bad (in a rush), they get it bad. -- John K. Meskimen %% When things are blackest, I just tell myself, "Cheer up, things could be worse!" And sure enough, they get worse! -- Skeeve %% When things are going well, someone will experiment detrimentally. -- Charles P. Boyle %% When things are going well, something will go wrong. Corollary: When things just can't get any worse, they will. Corollary: Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something. -- Francis P. Chisholm %% When things don't go well they like to blame Presidents; and that's something that Presidents are paid for. -- John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963) %% When things go well, expect something to explode, erode, collapse or just disappear. %% When things go wrong somewhere, they're apt to be wrong everywhere. -- Vermont Royster %% When this man straightens his head and puts it under his chin, he gets some relief. %% When three people journey together, Their number decreases by one. When one man journeys alone, He finds a companion. %% When time permits, your personal life will be exciting. %% When told he was making more per year than the President, Babe Ruth replied, "Well, I had a better year than he did." %% When traveling with children on one's holidays, at least one child of any number of children will request a rest room stop exactly half way between any two given rest rooms. -- Mervyn Cripps %% When two goats met on a bridge which was to narrow to allow either to pass or return, the goat which lay down that the other might walk over it was a finer gentleman than Lord Chesterfield. -- Cecil %% When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. -- William Wrigley, Jr. %% When two people meet to decide how to spend a third person's money, fraud will result. -- Herman Gross %% When voting on appropriations bills, more is not necessarily better. It is as wasteful to have a B-1 bomber in every garage as it is to have a welfare program for every conceivable form of deprivation. -- Pierre S. du Pont %% When war is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) %% When was the last time you were drunk? %% When was the last time you were sober? %% When water freezes you can walk on it. That is what Christ did long ago in wintertime. %% When we are right we can afford to keep our tempers. When we are wrong, we can't afford not to. %% When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. %% When we call others dogmatic, what we really object to is their holding dogmas that are different from our own. -- Professor Charles P. Issawi %% When we cannot act as we wish, we must act as we can. -- Terrence %% When we jumped into Sicily, the units became separated, and I couldn't find anyone. Eventually I stumbled across two colonels, a major, three captains, two lieutenants, and one rifleman, and we secured the bridge. Never in the history of war have so few been led by so many. -- General James Gavin %% When we return, our contestants will be placed in Final Jeopardy. %% When we say something happened by chance, we really mean we don't know what caused it. %% When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. -- Confucius %% When we talk of tomorrow, the gods laugh. %% When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic. -- Lily Tomlin %% When we write programs that "learn," it turns out that we do and they don't. %% When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues. -- Balzac %% When wool sweaters are worn, classroom temperatures are 95 degrees Fahrenheit. -- M. M. Johnston %% When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly. %% When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer (provided, of course, you know there is a problem). %% When writing these verses of mine, I start with a clever last line, Then work backward from there, Toward the opening pair, With the hopes it'll all work out fine. [Only sometimes it doesn't.] %% When you ain't got nothing, you got nothing to lose. %% When you and I are far apart Can sorrow break your tender heart? I love you darling, yes I do; Sleep is so sweet when I dream of you; All you are is a blossoming rose. Night is here so I must close. With care read the first word of each line. You will find a question of mine. -- Yours hopefully, The VAX %% When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all. %% When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 B.C.) %% When you are in a high place, do you get the urge to spit? %% When you are right be logical, when you are wrong be-fuddle. -- Gerard E. McKenna %% When you are sure you're right, you have a moral duty to impose your will upon anyone who disagrees with you. -- Robert W. Mayer %% When you are working hard, get up and retch every so often. %% When you arrive at your campsite, it is full. -- Milt Barber %% When you become used to never being alone, you may consider yourself Americanized. %% When you build a better mousetrap, what you often get is better-educated mice. %% When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face. -- Ed Howe %% When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder. -- W. J. Slim %% When you care enough to send the very best, send MONEY! %% When you dig another out of trouble, you've got a place to bury your own. %% When you divide people into _u_s and _t_h_e_m, you automatically become on one of _t_h_e_m. -- Solomon Short %% When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brains. -- Anonymous %% When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried. %% When you don't know where you're going, any gust of wind will get you there. -- Conservative columnist George F. Will, on George Bush's foreign policy %% When you doubt, abstain. -- Zoroaster %% When you find that flowers and shrubs will not endure a certain atmosphere, it is a very significant hint to the human creature to remove out of that neighborhood. -- Mayhew %% When you find yourself in danger, when you're threatened by a stranger, when it looks like you will take a lickin'... There is one thing you should learn, when there is no one else to turn to, caaaall for Super Chicken (**bwuck-bwuck-bwuck-bwuck**) caaaall for Super Chicken !! %% When you find yourself shouting at the top of your lungs, remember this: The noisy thunder strikes nothing the silent lightening strikes %% When you get killed you lose an important part of your life. -- Brooke Shields %% When you get out of the hospital, let me back into your life. I can't stand what you do, but I'm in love with your eyes. %% When you give up your dreams you die. %% When you go into court you are putting your fate in the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty. -- Norm Crosby %% When you go out to buy, don't show your silver. %% When you have a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail. %% When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. -- Harry S. Truman, 1959 %% When you have finished your daily toil, go to bed and sleep in peace. God is still awake. -- Victor Hugo (1802-1885) %% When you have nothing to say, say nothing. -- Charles Caleb Colton %% When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken, you reign over it. %% When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. -- Sir Winston S. Churchill, On formal declarations of war %% When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice. -- William James %% When you haven't got enough iodine in your blood you get a glacier. %% When you hold the canvas up to patch the sail, the sunlight streaming through it reveals a map to sail by. %% When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet. -- Stanislaw Lem %% When you live in a sick society, just about everything you do is wrong. %% When you look into the eyes of friends, there is a feeling in your heart that will never end. -- The Monkees %% When you lose your power to laugh, you lose your power to think straight. -- Inherit The Wind %% When you need towns, they are very far apart. -- John Steinbeck (1902-1968) %% When you opponent is down, kick him. -- John Cameron %% When you outlaw rights, only outlaws will have rights. -- betz@gozer.idbsu.edu %% When you pass the buck, don't ask for change. -- Solomon Short %% When you reach what you have been striving for, you may find that having is not such a great thing as wanting. %% When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before. -- Clifton Fadiman, "Any Number Can Play", 1957 %% When you save for a long time to buy something, then you find that you can't afford it - that's inflation. %% When you say Budweiser, you've said it all! %% When you say that you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice. -- Bismarck %% When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon monoxide. %% When you speak to others for their own good it's advice; when they speak to you for your own good it's interference. %% When you stay on the tracks, ignoring the facts, you can't blame the wreck on the train. -- from the song, "You Can't Blame . . " %% When you stop doing you want to do, they will bury you. %% When you take stuff from one writer it's plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it's research. -- Wilson Mizner %% When you transcend the medium, you have achieved art. -- Solomon Short %% When you use a thermometer, how do you tell if its oral or anal? %% When you were born, the doctor screamed, "Don't flush it! It has eyes!" %% When you were born, the doctor slapped your mother. %% When you're 10 points behind and the polls open in a few hours, there's not a hell of a lot you can do. -- Jody Powell %% When you're a Jet, you're a Jet all the way. From your first cigarette, to your last dying day. %% When you're born, a big chance was taken for you. %% When you're dining out and you suspect something's wrong, you're probably right. %% When you're down and out, lift up your voice and shout, "I'M DOWN AND OUT"! %% When you're in command, command. -- Admiral Nimitz %% When you're mining, you mine for the gold, not the dirt. %% When you're out of slits, you're out of pier. %% When you're ready to give up the struggle, who can you surrender to? %% When you're up to your ass in alligators, it is difficult to keep your mind on the fact that your primary objective is to drain the swamp. %% When you're up to your nose in shit, keep your mouth shut. -- Jack Beauregard %% When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all. %% When your conscious becomes unconscious, you are drunk. When your unconscious becomes conscious, you are stoned. %% When your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn They will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem. -- Leonard Cohen, "Sisters of Mercy" %% When your memory goes, forget it! %% When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt. -- Henry J. Kaiser %% Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) %% Whenever I feel like exercise, I lie down until the urge passes. %% Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) %% Whenever I read "Time" or "Newsweek" or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind? -- Edward Abbey %% Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one. -- Edward Abbey %% Whenever Richard Cory went downtown, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean-favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good morning," and he glittered when he walked. And he was rich--yes, richer than a king-- And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head. -- E. A. Robinson [Richard Cory] %% Whenever in time, and wherever in the universe, any man speaks or writes in any detail about the technical management of a poem, the resulting irascibility of the reader's response is a constant. -- Francis P. Chisholm %% Whenever one finds oneself inclined to bitterness, it is a sign of emotional failure. -- Bertrand Russell (1872-1967) %% Whenever one word or letter can change the entire meaning of a sentence, the probability of an error being made will be in direct proportion to the embarrassment it will cause. -- Bob Considine %% Whenever possible, steal code. -- "Programming Pearls", Communications of the ACM, Sep. 1985 %% Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. %% Whenever the abbot craves fun, He summons the same willing one: A hot-pantied sister Who makes his dong blister! She is known as his sine qua nun! %% Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors it is lost. -- Nikolai Lenin %% Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two. %% Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit. -- Epictetus %% Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis. -- Garrison Keillor %% Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much. -- Walter Lippmann %% Where am I ? Who am I ? Am I ? I %% Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. -- David Hume %% Where are kings usually crowned? On the head %% Where are the calculations that go with the calculated risk? -- Amrom Katz %% Where are your chain and ball?? %% Where do I pick up my radiation suit? My, what a lovely glow! Is that your child? What a darling little mutant! %% Where do all the "real men" eat in San Francisco? Oakland. %% Where do astronauts go on their vacations? All over Florida! %% Where do polar bears vote? The North Poll. %% Where do we get virgin wool? Ugly sheep. %% Where do you find a frog with no legs? Right where you left him. %% Where do you think all those demons come from? From Hell, of course. %% Where do you think the hell is located? It must be deep, deep down. %% Where everything is bad it must be good to know the worst. -- Francis H. Bradley %% Where have you ever found that man who stopped short after the perpetration of a single crime? -- Juvenal %% Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. -- Gray %% Where is John Carson now that we need him? -- RLG %% Where is shopdoor? %% Where is the guard? %% Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on't; And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on't. -- Canterbury "Examiner", 31 May 1829 %% Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? %% Where knowledge is free %% Where love is there is no labor; and if there be labor, that labor is loved. -- Austin %% Where necessity ends, curiosity begins; and no sooner are we supplied with every thing that nature can demand, than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites. -- Johnson %% Where no hope is left, is left no fear. -- Milton %% Where possible, preserve the President's options -- he will very likely need them. -- Donald Rumsfeld %% Where principle is involved, be deaf to expediency. %% Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into that dreary desert sands of dead habit %% Where the hell is Wall Drug? %% Where the lies are dreams and the lies cost. %% Where the mind is lead forward by thee into ever widening thought and action %% Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high %% Where the system is concerned, you're not allowed to ask "Why?". %% Where the words come out from the depths of truth %% Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls %% Where there are visible vapors, having their prevenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration. %% Where there is fear, there is no religion. -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948) %% Where there is much light there is also much shadow. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) %% Where there is much light, the shadow is deep. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) %% Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends. -- Lavater %% Where there is no vision, people perish. -- Proverbs 29:18 %% Where there's a whip there's a way. %% Where there's a will, I want to be part of it. %% Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection %% Where true love has found a home, every new hear forms one more ring around the hearts of those who love each other, so that in the end they cannot live apart. -- Julius Stinde %% Where was that stooped and mealy-colored man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down? -- Joseph Heller,"Catch-22" %% Where will it all end? Probably somewhere near where it all began. %% Where would a shellfish sue for damages? In a small clams court. -- Oliver M. Neshamkin %% Where you stand depends on where you sit. -- Rufus Miles [HEW] %% Where your nightmares end ... Terror begins. Willard. %% Where's my other sock? %% Where's the beef, Hey where's the beef? %% Where's the good scissors? %% Where's there's a will, there's a relative. %% Where, oh where, are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over, And I thought I'd found true love, You met another and [Bronx cheer] you were gone! -- Hee Haw %% Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords other men is a matter of tolerance. -- Walter Lippmann %% Whereas in many branches of economic activity employment depends on the number of job openings available, in the public service, as also in the advertising business, social science investigation, and university administration, the level of unemployment regularly depends on the number of men available and devoting their time to the creation of job opportunities. %% Whereas in the past the only resource for dealing with biological systems was to try to minimize the interactions between the parts, thereby often losing the real focus of interest, today nothing but time and money prevent us from treating real biological systems in all their complexity and richness. -- W. Ross Ashby %% Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein %% Wherever is love and loyalty, great purposes and lofty souls, even though in a hovel or mine, there is a fairy-land. -- Kingsley %% Wherever public spirit prevails, liberty is secure. -- Noah Webster %% Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth. -- Soren Kierkegaard %% Wherever you go...There you are. -- Buckaroo Banzai %% Wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience - and laughter. %% Whether he is his brother's keeper or his keeper's brother. -- Evan Esar %% Whether weary or unweary, O man, do not rest, Do not cease your single-handed struggle. Go on, do not rest. -- An old Gujarati hymn %% Which of the Himalayas is the shortest? -- Steve Connelly %% Which of the following doesn't belong? (a) meat (b) eggs (c) wife (d) blowjob. Answer: (d) a blowjob because it's possible to beat your meat, your eggs, or your wife, but you can't beat a blowjob. %% Which one do you mean? %% Which stock please? %% Which way? %% Which word didn't you understand? %% Which would you rather have, a bursting planet or an earthquake here and there? -- John Joseph Lynch %% While I, with my usual enthusiasm, Was exploring in Ermintrude's busiasm, She explained, "They are flat, But think nothing of that -- You will find that my sweet sister Susiasm." %% While Pres. Reagan was at the summit meeting for the INF treaty, Gorbachev leans over and asks : "Mr. Raygun, could you please do me a favor?" "Sure, pal, what is it ?" "Well, here in the USSR, we have shortages of certain items. One of these is prophylactics. I need for you to obtain for me some fine American rubbers!" "Sure pal, you've got it!" "But Mr. Raygun, I require SPECIAL rubbers! They must be 14 inches long and six inches in diameter. Can you oblige?" "Sure" gulped Reagan, and off he went back to the US. Later, in the Board room of BG Goofrich, the president asks of the CEO, "Hey, I'm in a jam. I need you guys to make me special batch of rubbers. They must be 14 inches long and six inches in diameter, Ok?? Also, I want the following words printed on them. On one side, I want 'Made in the USA', and on the other side I want printed 'Extra Small'." %% While Titian was mixing rose madder His model ascended the ladder Her position to titian Suggested coition So he mounted the ladder and had her %% While bryographic plants are typically encountered in substrata of earthly or mineral matter in concreted state, discrete substrata elements occasionally display a roughly spherical configuration which, in presence of suitable gravitational and other effects, lends itself to combined translatory and rotational motion. One notices in such cases an absence of the otherwise typical accretion of bryophyta. We therefore conclude that a rolling stone gathers no moss. %% While critiquing a survey intended for mothers of infants, I came across the following question: Have you ever breast fed your baby? a) Yes b) No c) Don't Know %% While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman. -- Boccaccio %% While filming a chase scene in a movie, the robbers were using a hearse for their get-a-way car, they went around a corner and the back door flew open and the casket slid out the back. The director yells, "Cut! You'd better go back and rehearse that!" %% While his duchess lay practically dead, The Duke of Daguerrodargue said: "Can it be this is all? How puny! How small! Have destroyed this disgrace to my bed." -- Edward Gorey %% While human capacities to shape the environment, society, and human beings are rapidly increasing, policymaking capabilities to use those capacities remain the same. -- Yehezkel Dror %% While it cannot be proved retrospectively that any experience of possession, conversion, revelation, or divine ecstasy was merely an epileptic discharge, we must ask how one differentiates "real transcendence" from neuropathies that produce the same extreme realness, profundity, ineffability, and sense of cosmic unity. When accounts of sudden religious conversions in TLEs [temporal-lobe epileptics] are laid alongside the epiphanous revelations of the religious tradition, the parallels are striking. The same is true of the recent spate of alleged UFO abductees. Parsimony alone argues against invoking spirits, demons, or extraterrestrials when natural causes will suffice. -- Barry L. Beyerstein, "Neuropathology and the Legacy of Spiritual Possession", The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII, No. 3, pg. 255 %% While not actually a sailor, I certainly enjoy getting blown ashore. %% While our economy may be beset by difficulty, it should not be beset by doubt. -- President George Bush, February 1991 %% While out on a date in his Fiat, The man exclaimed "Where's my key at?" As he bent down to seek, She let out a shriek: "That's not where its likely to be at." %% While spending the winter at Pau Lady Pamela forgot to say "No." So the head-porter made her The second-cook laid her; The waiters were all hanging low. %% While the State exists, there is no freedom. When there is freedom, there is no State. -- Nikolai Lenin %% While the difficulties and dangers of problems tend to increase at a geometric rate, the knowledge and manpower qualified to deal with these problems tend to increase at an arithmetic rate. -- Yehezkel Dror %% While the public says it wants a good Congressman, it votes for good politicians. -- Otis Pike %% While there's life, there's hope. -- Publius Terentius Afer (Terence) %% While vacationing last summer in the North Woods, a young fellow thought it might be a good idea to write his girl. He had brought no stationery with him, however; so he had to walk into town for some. Entering the one and only general store, he discovered that the clerk was a young, full-blown farm girl with languorous eyes. "Do you keep stationery?" he asked. "Well," she giggled, "I do until the last few seconds, and then I just go wild." %% While walking down a crowded City street the other day, I heard a little urchin To a comrade turn and say, "Say, Chimmey, lemme tell youse, I'd be happy as a clam If only I was de feller dat Me mudder t'inks I am. "She t'inks I am a wonder, My friends, be yours a life of toil An' she knows her little lad Or undiluted joy, Could never mix wit' nuttin' You can learn a wholesome lesson Dat was ugly, mean or bad. From that small, untutored boy. Oh, lot o' times I sit and t'ink Don't aim to be an earthly saint How nice, 'twould be, gee whiz! With eyes fixed on a star: If a feller was de feller Just try to be the fellow that Dat his mudder t'inks he is." Your mother thinks you are. -- Will S. Adkin, "If I Only Was the Fellow" %% While we are sleeping, two-thirds of the world is plotting to do us in. -- Dean Rusk %% While you recently had your problems on the run, they've regrouped and are making another attack. %% While you're chewing, think of STEVEN SPIELBERG'S bank account ... his will have the same effect as two "STARCH BLOCKERS"! %% Whilst thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head. -- William Shakespeare %% Whip it! Whip it good. %% Whip it, baby. Whip it right. Whip it, baby. Whip it all night! %% Whistler's mother is off her rocker. %% White House Chief of staff Donald Regan, testifying before the Sarah Whitman Hooker Chapter of the Daughters of the Select Committee on Chicanery, said he was unaware, until recently, of the existance of Iran and that the entire fiasco is the work of Robert (Bud) McFarlane, Oliver (Crazy Legs) North, John (Sugar Lips) Poindexter and Lorne (Gump) Worsley. %% White House carpenters have reworked the master bedroom, remodeling it so that Ronnie can sleep with his head in the hall. That way, by the time he wakes up, somebody will have already shined his hair. %% White House officials worry that the coming evaluations of the `first hundred days' will suggest that the President... has no agenda, no money, no strategy, no ideology, no worldview, and no explanation for his mysterious role in the Iran-contra scandal. -- The New York Times, Day 85 of the Bush presidency %% White as snow and snow it isn't Green as grass, and grass it isn't Red as blood and blood it isn't Black as ink, and ink it isn't. A blackberry, (White bloom, green, red, black berry) %% White dwarf seeks red giant for binary relationship. %% White sandstone cliffs tower overhead, forming an impassable barrier to the north. There is a small trail winding steeply up the cliffs. The cliffs stretch away to the west and east, plunging into the ocean in the latter direction. %% Whitehead's Law: The obvious answer is always overlooked. %% Whitesville, Delaware, deems it disorderly conduct for a woman to offer a marriage proposal during a leap year. %% Whittaker: When shouldn't a mountain climber call for help? Edmond: When he's hanging by his teeth. %% Who are the artists in the Computer Graphics Show? Wavefront's latest box, or the people who programmed it? Should Mandelbrot get all the credit for the output of programs like MandelVroom? -- Peter da Silva, peter@ficc.uu.net %% Who are those guys? %% Who are you to take away others' angels, just because you think it's in their best interest? -- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) %% Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall. -- Tobias G. Smollett %% Who can protest and does not, is an accomplice in the act. -- The Talmud (Sabbath, 54 b.) %% Who can take the demands of the SDS seriously? -- Nathan Pusey %% Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. -- George Orwell (1903-1950), "1984", 1948 %% Who cuts the grass on Walton's Mountain? Lawn Boy. %% Who dares nothing, need hope for for nothing. -- Johann von Schiller %% Who dares sit before the Queen with his hat on? Her Coachman %% Who dat who say "who dat" when I say "who dat"? -- Hattie McDaniel %% Who do I have to sleep with to get off of this project? %% Who do you hire to build an ivory tower? Deconstruction workers. %% Who does not love wine, women, and song, Remains a fool his whole life long. -- Johann Heinrich Voss %% Who does not trust enough will not be trusted. -- Lao Tsu %% Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? -- Marlowe %% Who fears t' offend takes the first step to please. -- Cibber %% Who glued the cup to the table? %% Who goeth a-borrowing goeth a-sorrowing. -- Thomas Tusser %% Who gossips to you will gossip of you. %% Who greased the grape viiiiiiiiiiiinnnnnnnneeeeeeeeee........ -- Tarzan %% Who has something good to say? %% Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood. -- Aeschylus %% Who holds the souls of children, holds the nation. %% Who in the name of God would bring a half-eaten eight-ounce jar of Hellman's mayonnaise to a public meeting? -- Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities" %% Who is D. B. Cooper, and where is he now? %% Who is John Gault? %% Who is W. O. Baker, and why is he saying those terrible things about me? %% Who knows a fool, must know his brother; for one will recommend another. -- Poor Richard %% Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? ... Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. -- Alan Paton, "Cry, The Beloved Country", 1948 %% Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The shadow knows! %% Who knows? It all feels the same in the dark. %% Who loves ya, baby? %% Who loves, raves -- 'tis youth's phrenzy; but the cure Is bitterer still. -- Byron %% Who makes quick use of the moment, is a genius of prudence. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater %% Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies. -- Edward Abbey %% Who needs companionship when you can sit alone in your room and drink? %% Who on earth would eat a charred caterpillar!? No, no, you SINGE 'em! You SINGE 'em and eat 'em! %% Who plays the rogue, be perfect in his part. -- Erskine %% Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. -- Lavater %% Who says you can't have it all? a. Michelob Light. b. Heidegger. c. The IRS. -- A sane man %% Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall. Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And sound casuists doubt like you and me? -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) %% Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And sound casuists doubt like you and me? -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744) %% Who shall guard the guardians themselves? %% Who so e'er shall pull the sword from this stone shall rightwise be king of all England. -- a rock %% Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them; to ruin his own fortune brings. -- William Shakespeare %% Who stole my underwear? %% Who stole the cork from my breakfast? -- W. C. Fields %% Who then is free? The wise man who can command himself. -- Horace (65-8 B.C.) %% Who thinks it only frivolous flim-flam. -- Martial %% Who to himself is law no law doth need, offends no law, and is a king indeed. -- George Chapman %% Who took the MMMMMM out of MURINE? %% Who was Alexander Graham Kowalski? The first telephone Pole. %% Who was that masked man? %% Who was the first computer expert ever? Eve, because she had an Apple in one hand and a Wang in the other. %% Who was the most elastic man in the Bible? Mohab, because he hitched his ass to a tree and walked nine miles. %% Who was the world's first underwater spy? James Pond. %% Who will protect the public when the police violate the law? -- Ramsey Clark %% Who will see us in museums? Who will dust today's belongings? Who will tell the stories of the way things used to be? %% Who will take care of the world after you're gone? %% Who's afraid of ARPA? %% Who's afraid of the garbage collector? %% Who's on first, what's on second, I don't know's on third. %% Who's scruffy-looking? -- Han Solo %% Whoah, you smell bad. %% Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which anyone can get into. -- J. Ogden Armour %% Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), "Jenseits von Gut und Bose" %% Whoever has the most toys when he dies, wins. %% Whoever has the most when he dies... WINS! %% Whoever hunts deer without the forester Only loses his way in the forest. The superior man understands the signs of the time And prefers to desist. To go on brings humiliation. %% Whoever preserves a single thought uncorrupted by any concession to the will of others, whoever brings into reality a matchstick or a patch of garden made in the image of his thought -- he, and to that extent, is a man, and that extent is the sole measure of his virtue. They made no concessions. This (the valley) is the measure of what they preserved and what they are. -- Hugh Akston %% Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors. -- Voltaire (1694-1778) %% Whoever thought up "It's only a game" probably just lost one. %% Whoever would lie usefully should lie seldom. %% Whoever you are -- you who are alone with my words in this moment, with nothing but your honesty to help you understand -- the choice is still open to be a human being, but the price is to start from scratch, to stand naked in the face of reality, and, reversing a costly historical error, to declare: 'I am, therefore I'll think.' -- John Galt %% Wholly without foundation, informed sources insist, are rumors that John Anderson will announce a running-mate just as soon as he receives a confidential medical advisory on the feasibility of his being cloned. -- National Review %% Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad. %% Whoops, stepped on a frog. %% Whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and, consequently the world itself. -- Sir Walter Raleigh %% Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. -- Matthew V, 39 %% Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race. -- Edward Abbey %% Why a man would want a wife is a big mystery to some people. Why a man would want *two* wives is a bigamystery. %% Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot. -- Edward Abbey %% Why am I not married? - Because there is no woman who can whip me! %% Why are toilet paper rolls 2 miles long? The first 1.5 miles are instructions. %% Why are Jewish men circumcised? Because Jewish women won't touch anything that isn't at least 20% off. %% Why are electrons patriotic? Because they go to the poles and volt. %% Why are many scientists using lawyers for medical experiments instead of rats? a) They can't tell the difference. b) There are more lawyers than rats. c) The scientist's don't become as emotionally attached to them. d) There are some things that even rats won't do for money. %% Why are many scientists using lawyers for medical experiments instead of rats? a) There are more lawyers than rats. b) The scientist's don't become as emotionally attached to them. c) There are some things that even rats won't do for money. %% Why are programmers criticized for re-inventing the wheel, when car manufacturers are praised for it? %% Why are synogoges round? So the jewish people have nowhere to run when they pass out the collection plate. %% Why are the good women married? %% Why are we all put here to suffer and die? %% Why are you looking down here? The joke is above! %% Why are you looking for more knowledge when you do not pay attention to what you already know? %% Why are you so dull? %% Why are you so hard to ignore? %% Why are you wasting time reading taglines? %% Why are you watching The washing machine? I love entertainment So long as it's clean. Professor Doberman: While the preceding poem is unarguably a change from the guarded pessimism of "The Hound of Heaven," it cannot be regarded as an unqualified improvement. Obscurity is of value only when it tends to clarify the poetic experience. As much as one is compelled to admire the poem's technique, one must question whether its byplay of complex literary allusions does not in fact distract from the unity of the whole. In the final analysis, one receives the distinct impression that the poem's length could safely have been reduced by a factor of eight or ten without sacrificing any of its meaning. It is to be hoped that further publication of this poem can be suspended pending a thorough investigation of its potential subversive implications. %% Why ask me? It's your program! %% Why be a man when you can be a success? -- Bertolt Brecht %% Why be difficult when with a little more effort you can be impossible? %% Why can't Jesus eat M&Ms? They keep falling through the holes in his hands. %% Why can't we just spell it orderves? %% Why can't you be unique and original like everybody else? %% Why did (neighboring hated state) raise the drinking age to 31? To keep the high schoolers out of the bars. %% Why did Douglas Hofstadter cross the road? To make this riddle possible %% Why did God create women? Sheep can't cook. %% Why did God give Mexicans noses? So they would have something to pick in the off season. %% Why did God invent booze? So that fat and ugly girls can get laid too %% Why did Texas get the Aggies and San Francisco get the gays? San Francisco had first choice. %% Why did the Albanion working class revolt? %% Why did the LDS couple stop after three children? Because they read that every fourth child born is Chinese. %% Why did the Pillsbury Girl get pregnant? Because the Pillsbury Boy forgot his Wiener Wrap! %% Why did the Postal Service have to cancel the Ronald Reagan stamp? Because people kept spitting on the wrong side. %% Why did the dead baby cross the road? It was nailed to a chicken. %% Why did the elephant paint a white stripe down his back? ...So he wouldn't get seen on the freeway. Never seen an elephant on the freeway have you? Work's don't it. %% Why did the elephant paint his toenails blue? ...So he could hide in the bubblegum jar. %% Why did the elephant paint his toenails red? ...So he could hide in the apple tree. %% Why did the hospital poker game come to an abrupt end? The leper threw in his hand. %% Why did the leper hockey game end? There was a face-off in the corner. %% Why did the little Moron take his nose apart? To see what made it run! %% Why did the lone ranger kill Tonto? He found out what "kimosabe" means. %% Why did the moron jump off the Empire State Building? He wanted to make a hit on Broadway. %% Why did the moron take his kneecap off? To see if there was any beer in the joint! %% Why did the moron throw the clock out the window? To see time fly! %% Why did the mouse run up the elephants leg twice? ...The first time he got Pissed Off. %% Why did the orange lose his job at the orange juice factory? -- He couldn't consentrate! %% Why did the program counter increment? To get to the next instruction. %% Why did they hang the picture? They couldn't find the artist. %% Why do s put ice in their condoms? It keeps the swelling down. %% Why do Californians have car accidents? So they can meet their neighbors. %% Why do Edmontonians smell? So blind people can hate them too. %% Why do Elephants have four feet? ...ten inches just isn't enough. %% Why do I get the impression that when politicians talk of "family values" in government, they really mean "treat the voters like children?" -- Mark J Bradakis mjb@triumph.cs.utah.edu %% Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*. -- Edward Abbey %% Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss. -- Edward Abbey %% Why do Scottsmen wear kilts?? Simple...the sound of zippers scare the sheep.... %% Why do all obscene phone callers sound like they have asthma? %% Why do basketball players have so many children? They dribble before they shoot. %% Why do five pins seem like a little, but five elephants seem like a lot? %% Why do fools fall in love? %% Why do scottish people refuse to buy refrigerators? They don't believe that the light will go out when you close the door. %% Why do seagulls live near the sea? Because if they lived near the bay, they'd be called bagels. %% Why do so many computer nerds have pictures of beautiful girls in their X background windows? That's the only way they will ever have a chance to point at a pretty girl and say "She's my X girlfriend." %% Why do so many foods come packaged in plastic? It's quite uncanny. %% Why do the marines send three men out on a patrol? One to read the map and two to guard the intellectual. %% Why do they call a fast a fast, when it goes so slow? %% Why do tigers live in the jungle? They hate city traffic. %% Why do we want intelligent terminals when there are so many stupid users? %% Why do women have more trouble with hemmoriods than men? Because God made man the perfect asshole. %% Why do women have periods? Because they deserve them. %% Why do women love Pacman? Only place you can get eaten three times for a quarter. %% Why do you boil water when babies are born? So that if they're born dead, you can make soup. %% Why do you think they call it "find"? %% Why does Dr. Pepper come in a bottle? Because his wife left him. But things are looking up for their reconciliation. Seems that when she left, she stole his word processor, and she's been renting it out occasionally in Japan. That is, every now and then she gets a yen for his Wang. %% Why does Noriega have so many holes in his face? From learning to eat with a fork!!!!! %% Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away? -- Carl Sandburg %% Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? %% Why does the evening, does the night, put warmer love in our hearts? Is it the nightly pressure of helplessness? Or is it the exalting separation from the turmoils of life, that veiling of the world in which for the soul nothing there remains but souls? It is therefore that the letters in which the loved name stands written in our spirit appears like phosphorous writing by night, in fire, while by day, in their cloudy traces, they but smoke? -- Richter %% Why does this magnificent applied science, which saves work and makes life easier, bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) %% Why doesn't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone? -- Jimmy Durante %% Why doesn't life come with subtitles? %% Why doesn't the Bat Computer ever crash? %% Why don't Edmontonians play hide and seek? Because nobody wants to find them %% Why don't Scotsmen ever have coffee the way they like it? Well, they like it with two lumps of sugar, but if they drink it at home, they only take one, and if they drink it while visiting, they always take three. %% Why don't hockey players have children? They shoot before they score. %% Why don't somebody print the truth about our present economic condition? We spent years of wild buying on credit, everything under the sun, whether we needed it or not, and now we are having to pay for it, howling like a pet coon. This would be a great world to dance in if we didn't have to pay the fiddler. -- Will Rogers %% Why don't you adopt an old octopus? %% Why don't you become a gump? %% Why don't you become turtle brained? %% Why don't you come up and see me sometime? -- Mae West %% Why don't you eat a gazelle? %% Why don't you fix your little problem... and light this candle? -- Alan Shepherd [the first man into space, Gemini program] %% Why don't you give yourself a treat? Paint all your mirrors. %% Why don't you go check into a Roach Motel? %% Why don't you humans leave me alone? %% Why don't you live with a racoon and lick a moose? %% Why don't you move to Russia? %% Why don't you pair 'em up in threes? -- Yogi Berra %% Why don't you put on a tutu and go to a leather bar? %% Why don't you slip into something more comfortable? Like thumbscrews. %% Why don't you take a stress pill and think things over Dave? %% Why don't you try slipping on a pair of water moccasins? %% Why don't you write books people can read? -- Nora Joyce, to her husband %% Why dont chickens wear underwear? Their peckers are on their faces. %% Why dost thou court that baneful pest, ambition? -- Potter %% Why explore the Universe? It is almost ironic that we should have to ask this question because it is almost as though we have to apologize for our highest attributes... we went to Mars, not because of our technology, but because of our imagination. -- Norman Cousins %% Why fall in love when there's better things to do? %% Why fire engines are red: Two plus two makes four. Three times four makes twelve. There are twelve inches in a ruler. Queen Elizabeth is a ruler. Queen Elizabeth is also a boat. Boats sail on the ocean. Fish live in the ocean. Fish have fins. The Finns fought the Russians. The Russians are red. And that's why fire engines are red, because they're Rushin' all over! %% Why get even, when you can get odd? %% Why good morning, I'm the bluebird of fellatio! %% Why is "abbreviated" such a long word? %% Why is Christmas just like a day at the office? You do all the work and the fat guy with the suit gets all the credit. %% Why is Cinderella such a bad soccer player? She keeps running away from the ball! %% Why is Cinderella such a bad tennis player? Her coach is a pumpkin! %% Why is Gerald Ratner so successful? In just six years the Englishman has parlayed a two-karat family business into the world's largest jewelry retailer, with 1,000 stores in the U.S. (under the names Kay and Sterling) and an equal number in Britain. In a speech last week at London's Albert Hall before the annual convention of the prestigious Institute of Directors, Ratner, 41, offered a four-point program for becoming a multimillionaire. Rule No. 1: Understand your market. His stores, he says, sell "cheap and tacky products." Rule No. 2: Form clear quality goals. "We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a silver-plated tray -- that your butler can serve you drinks on -- all for 4.95 [$8.73]. People say, `How can you sell this for such a low price?' I say because it is total crap." Rule No. 3: Evaluate how your products stacks up against all the competition. "We even sell a pair of earrings for under 1 [$1.76], which is cheaper than a prawn sandwich from Marks and Spencer. But I have to say the earrings probably won't last as long." Oh, yes, and Rule No. 4: Don't write your own speeches. -- Time magazine, May 6, 1991 %% Why is Marianne Gravatte looking at me that way? %% Why is Oprah Winfrey's lawn covered in AstroTurf? To keep her from grazing. %% Why is a duck? %% Why is a fat girl like a moped? Both are fun but you wouldn't like your friends to see you. %% Why is it everyone asks of me but no one asks for me? %% Why is it no one ever sent me yet One perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get One perfect rose. -- Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), "One Perfect Rose" %% Why is it taking so long for her to bring out all the good in you? %% Why is it that people consider it impolite to speak when the mouth is full, but quite routine to speak when the head is empty? %% Why is it that people who know nothing are so quick to prove it? %% Why is it that stupid questions are so hard to answer? %% Why is it that the more accuracy you demand from an interpolation function, the more expensive it becomes to compute? That's the Law of Spline Demand. %% Why is it that you always have to rummage through the wastebasket for a note right after you've just emptied your ashtray? %% Why is it you never see the headline, "PSYCHIC WINS LOTTERY" %% Why is it, whenever a group of internationalists get together, they always decide that Uncle Sam must be the goat? -- Bertrand H. Snell %% Why is man doomed to have only one erogenous zone? %% Why is the alphabet in that order? -- Steven Wright %% Why is there a watermelon there? I'll explain later. -- "Buckaroo Banzai" %% Why isn't there some cheap and easy way to prove how much she means to me? %% Why kill time when you can kill yourself? %% Why knock on a #? %% Why listen to reason when insanity prevails. %% Why look here for the joke? It's all around us. %% Why marry a virgin? If she wasn't good enough for the rest of them then she isn't good enough for you. %% Why me? %% Why must every generation think their folks are square? %% Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots. -- Edward Abbey %% Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out they are another's. -- Susanna Martin, executed for witchcraft, 1681 %% Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is? %% Why piccolo a profession that's full of viol practices, confirmed lyres, old fiddles, and bass desires? For the lute, of course. -- Alan F. G. Lewis %% Why should I care if I have to cut my hair, I've got to move to the fashion of the outcast. %% Why should I feel another man's mistakes more than his sickness or poverty? %% Why should I have to pay a troll just to cross a bridge? -- B. G. Gruff %% Why should freedom of speech and freedom of the press be allowed? Why should a government which is doing what it believes is right allow itself to be criticized? It would not allow opposition by lethal weapons. Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. -- V. I. Lenin (1870-1924) %% Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age? -- Erich Fromm (1900-1980) %% Why should the devil have all the good tunes? %% Why should we bother to reply to Kautski? He would reply to us and we would have to reply to his reply. There's no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautski is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything. -- V. I. Lenin (1870-1924) %% Why should we care if you are insane? The activities of other species rarely interfere with our own lives. In the end, they all belong to us. -- Kyeref "The Ringworld Engineers" %% Why should we subsidize intellectual curiosity? -- Ronald W. Reagan %% Why shouldn't the American people take half my money from me? I took all of it from them. %% Why strive for knowledge of reality if this knowledge cannot aid us in life? %% Why study? The more you study the more you know, the more you know the more you can forget, the more you can forget, the more you do forget, the more you forget the less you know. So why study? -- Robert Ripley %% Why teach people to type with both hands when they can type faster with one finger than they can think. %% Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure. -- Edward Abbey %% Why was the cannibal sent home from school? - Because he tried to butter up the teacher. %% Why were the midget and the circus fat lady so deliriously happy when they were married? She let him try a new wrinkle every night. %% Why won't sharks eat lawyers? Professional courtesy. %% Why won't you dance with me? I'm not no Limburger! %% Why worry about tomorrow, when today is so far off? %% Why would anybody in his sane mind engrave "Elbereth" ? %% Why would anyone want to be called "Later"? %% Why would we have different races if God meant us to be alike and associate with each other? -- Lester Maddox %% Why would you WANT to port C news to your PC? Wouldn't it be smarter and about as cost-effective to port your PC over to the trashcan and buy a real computer that runs a real operating system like Unix? -- Brian Kantor, brian@ucsd.edu %% Why would you tie up a #? %% Why you flabby small slime-mold, why don't you live with a sword? %% Why you numskull, you resemble an ant. %% Why you say you no bunny rabbit when you have little powder-puff tail? -- The Tasmanian Devil %% Why, every one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow. -- Rabelais %% Why, when no honest man will deny in private that every ultimate problem is wrapped in the profoundest mystery, do honest men proclaim in pulpits that unhesitating certainty is the duty of the most foolish and ignorant? Is it not a spectacle to make the angels laugh? We are a company of ignorant beings, feeling our way through mists and darkness, learning only be incessantly repeated blunders, obtaining a glimmering of truth by falling into every conceivable error, dimly discerning light enough for our daily needs, but hopelessly differing whenever we attempt to describe the ultimate origin or end of our paths; and yet, when one of us ventures to declare that we don't know the map of the universe as well as the map of our infinitesimal parish, he is hooted, reviled, and perhaps told that he will be damned to all eternity for his faithlessness... -- Leslie Stephen (1832-1904), "An agnostic's Apology", Fortnightly Review, 1876 %% Why, when people pray, do they invariably ask for something? %% Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love. -- Aristotle %% Wickedness may prosper for a awhile, but in the long run, he that seta all knaves at work will pay them. -- L'Estrange %% Wide flush the fields; the softening air is balm; Echo the mountains round; the forest smiles; And every sense and every heart is joy. -- Thomson %% Wie geht's? %% Wife who put husband in doghouse soon find him in cathouse. %% Wife: Okay, today's Friday. Where's your pay envelope? Man: I already spent all my pay. I bought something for the house. Wife: What? What could you buy for the house that cost $480? Man: Eight rounds of drinks. %% Wife: "Have you given the goldfish any water lately?" Maid: "No, ma'am, they haven't finished the water I gave them last month." %% Wife: "Henry, wake up. I heard a mouse squeak." Henry: "What do you want me to do, get up and oil it?" %% Wilcox's Law: A pat on the back is only a few centimeters from a kick in the pants. %% Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself. -- James A. Froude (1818-1894) %% Wild thing, you make my heart sing. You make everything groovy. Wild thing, i think i love you, but i wanna know for sure. Come on, hold me tight. You move me. %% Wilderness begins in the human mind. -- Edward Abbey %% Will I live tomorrow? Well, I just can't say. But one thing's for sure. I don't live today. -- Jimi Hendrix %% Will Rogers never met Howard Cosell. Still one more thing, fellow citizens: a wise and frugal government, which shall refrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) %% Will Rogers never met you. %% Will arrived and gave me the water jug, a Clorox bleach bottle. After we took our first sips Will admitted he should have rinsed the bottle out a few more times after finding it in the Camp Four dumpster. He surveyed the wall above: "This is where Arnold backed off, that little chicken shit." Then he laughed so loud I swear I heard it volley off El Capitan, a mile across the valley. I thought Will had been gazing at the moon too much and, looking up, knew that whoever Arnold was, he was no fool. Will had tried this climb three times in the last month and each partner had backed off at this very stance. But just now Will scared me more than the climb and anyhow he was already halfway up the flake. -- John Long, Direct North Buttress, Middle Cathedral Rock, Yosemite Valley %% Will he still love you tomorrow? %% Will she still love you tomorrow? %% Will the last one out please turn off the lights? %% Will the last person out of the tunnel turn out the light? -- graffito, in Saigon, c.1973 %% Will you lend me your rifle so I can shoot myself? %% Will you loan me $20.00 and only give me ten of it? That way, you will owe me ten, and I'll owe you ten, and we'll be even! %% William Dean Howells: a rubber chicken dangling on a string. -- Edward Abbey %% William Tell wore contact lenses. %% William's Law: There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by brute strength and ignorance. %% Willie in the cauldron fell; Willie saw some dynamite, See the grief on mother's brow; Couldn't understand it quite; Mother loved her darling well-- Curiosity never pays: Willie's quite hard-boiled by now. It rained Willie seven days. Little Willie with a shout, William in a nice new sash, Gouged the baby's eyeballs out; Fell in the fire and burned to an ash. Stamped on them to make them pop. Now, although the room grows chilly, Mother cried, "Now, William, stop!" I haven't the heart to poke poor Billy. William with a thirst for gore, Nailed the baby to the door. Mother said, with humor quaint: "Careful, Will, don't mar the paint." -- Harry Graham, "Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes", 1899 %% Willie, looking in the mirror, Willie with the nursery shears Sucked the mercury off Cut off both the baby's ears. Thinking in his childish error To the baby so unsightly It would cure the whooping cough. Mother raised her eyebrows slightly. At the funeral his weeping mother In the family drinking well Sadly said to Mrs. Brown, Willie pushed his sister, Nell. "'Twas a chilly day for Willie She's there still because it killed her, When the mercury went down." Now, we have to buy a filter. %% Wilner's Observation: All conversations with a potato should be conducted in private. %% Win her with gifts, if she respect not words; Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, More quick than words do move a woman's mind. -- William Shakespeare %% Win if you can, lose if you must, but always cheat %% Wind and thunder: the image of Increase. Thus the superior man: If he sees good, he imitates it; If he has faults, he rids himself of them. %% Wind comes forth from fire: The image of The Family. Thus the superior man has substance in his words And duration in his way of life. %% Wind over lake: the image of Inner Truth. Thus the superior man discusses criminal cases In order to delay executions. %% Window: What you heave the computer out of after you accidentally erase a program that took you three days to set up. %% Windows are all the rage these days. It's just as I've always claimed: the world just keeps getting more and more X-centric. %% Windows: A method of dividing a computer screen into two or more unusably tiny portions. %% Winds following one upon the other: The image of the Gently Penetrating. Thus the superior man Spreads his commands abroad And carries out his undertakings. %% Wine is a turncoat; first a friend, and then an enemy. -- Fielding %% Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceives us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years. -- Ovid %% Winning doesn't prove you are a better human being. %% Winning isn't everything, but losing isn't anything. %% Winning isn't everything, but losing sucks. %% Winning isn't the most important thing; it's the only thing. -- J. Ceasar %% Winston Peters, a rebel without a caucus. %% Winter is here with his grouch, The time when you sneeze and slouch. You can't take your women Canoein' or swimmin', But a lot can be done on a couch. %% Winter is nature's way of saying "up yours". %% Wipe Me Mommy (revue) %% Wisdom and good sense guard life from harm. %% Wisdom and knowledge decrease in inverse proportion to age. -- William J. Lynott %% Wisdom does not give you the answers, it only redefines the questions. %% Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. -- Josh Billings %% Wisdom is considered a sign of weakness by the powerful because a wise man can lead without power but only a powerful man can lead without wisdom. -- Mark B. Cohen %% Wisdom is divided into two parts: 1) having a great deal to say, and 2) not saying it. %% Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know. -- J. Winter Smith %% Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning ... and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. -- Bergen Evans %% Wisdom is rarely found on the best-seller list. %% Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it all out; and when it does come it is out again immediately. -- Matthew Henry %% Wise approach. This is right for a great prince. Good fortune. %% Wise people learn to tolerate only productive anxiety in themselves. They make tension work for them instead of against them. Their aggressiveness is outgoing and initiating, not hostile or arrogant. %% Wise words in the mouths of fools oft belie. %% Wish and hope succeed in discerning signs of paranormality where reason and careful scientific procedure fail. -- James E. Alcock, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 12 %% Wish for a master key and open the Magic Memory Vault! %% Wish for a pass-key and pass all obstacles! %% Wish for a skeleton-key and open all doors! %% Wishes are free unless you want them to come true. %% Wishing without work is like fishing without bait. -- Frank Tyger %% Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education. -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) %% Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food. -- William Hazlitt (1778-1830) %% Wit lies in the likeness of things that are different, and in the difference of things that are alike. -- Madame de Stael %% Wit sometimes enables us to act rudely with impunity. -- Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld [In other words, to step on a man's toes without spoiling his shoeshine.] %% Witches of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your broomsticks! %% With Congress, every time they make a joke it's a law; and every time they make a law it's a joke. -- Will Rogers %% With Scotch the price it is, I can hardly brace myself to order a double until I've had one. %% With TV, radio, and tapes, what young person has time to listen to reason? -- Boyd K. Packer %% With a #? %% With a French lass, it's unwise to trifle. They have urges they simply can't stifle. A woman of France Will pull down her pants At the sight of a towering eye-full. %% With a bushel of apples, you can have a hell of a time with the doctor's wife. %% With a great effort, the rug is moved to one side of the room. With the rug moved, the dusty cover of a closed trap door appears. %% With a love so hard and filled with defeat, for the lies in that lonely backstreets. %% With a mind like yours, who needs a body. %% With all the talent around, it's sort of amazing that a woman could be up here with us. -- Ralph Kiner [on introducing an award winner] %% With clothes the new are best, with friends the old are best. %% With design like this, who needs bugs? -- Boyd Roberts %% With equal pace, impartial fate, Knocks at the palace and the cottage gate. -- Horace (65-8 B.C.) %% With every baby,there comes a new hope - always dashed %% With every exertion, the best of men can do but a moderate amount of good; but it seems in the power of the most contemptible individual to do incalculable mischief. -- Washington Irving %% With friends like you, who needs enemas. %% With great effort you move the enormous rock. %% With great effort, you open the window far enough to allow passage. %% With her body, woman is more sincere than man; but with her mind she lies. And when she lies, she does not believe herself. -- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) %% With her hands on her hips and the smile on her lips because she knows that it kills me. %% With her killer graces and the secret places that no boy can fill. %% With her long hair shining and her eyes that shine like the midnight sun. %% With her soft french cream standing in the doorway like a dream when I wish she'd just leave me alone. %% With just one kiss she can turn a long summer night. %% With liberty and justice for all who can afford it. %% With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) %% With notch-less ears... %% With rank goeth privileges -- so it ever shall be. But also with it go responsibility and obligations, always more onerous than the privileges are pleasant. -- Robert A. Heinlein %% With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter... -- William Lloyd Garrison %% With silver bells, and cockle shells, And pretty maids all in a row. -- Mother Goose %% With some people we spend our time, with others we invest it. %% With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. -- Friedrich von Schiller %% With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams. -- Edward Abbey %% With the news that Nancy Reagan has referred to an astrologer when planning her husband's schedule, and reports of Californians evacuating Los Angeles on the strength of a prediction from a sixteenth-century physician and astrologer Michel de Notredame, the image of the U.S. as a scientific and technological nation has taking a bit of a battering lately. Sadly, such happenings cannot be dismissed as passing fancies. They are manifestations of a well-established "anti-science" tendency in the U.S. which, ultimately, could threaten the country's position as a technological power. . . . The manifest widespread desire to reject rationality and substitute a series of quasirandom beliefs in order to understand the universe does not augur well for a nation deeply concerned about its ability to compete with its industrial equals. To the degree that it reflects the thinking of a significant section of the public, this point of view encourages ignorance of and, indeed, contempt for science and for rational methods of approaching truth. . . . It is becoming clear that if the U.S. does not pick itself up soon and devote some effort to educating the young effectively, its hope of maintaining a semblance of leadership in the world may rest, paradoxically, with a new wave of technically interested and trained immigrants who do not suffer from the anti-science disease rampant in an apparently decaying society. -- Physicist Tony Feinberg, in "New Scientist," May 19, 1988 %% With the press, it is safest to assume that there is no "off the record." -- Donald Rumsfeld %% With the proper consideration in choice of allies, victory may be guaranteed in any conflict. -- Benedict Arnold %% With those lies on the backstreets tonight. %% With those who follow a different way it is useless to take counsel. %% With what? your bare hands? %% With what? your bare hands? Against *his* bear hands?? %% With/Without - and who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about? -- Pink Floyd %% Wither have all the poets gone? The Language is lost and the Ballads are gone. The Ballad once strong and true, Has been replaced by the Lyric with it's different view. A Lyric which can bring such pain is akin to Technology with all its strain. Technology, the beast, stands in power where Magic, used to make men cower. Magic has little to fear like the Moon that romantic sphere. The Moon in all its glory has made poets write, and bring a story. Wither have all the poets gone? The Language is lost and the Ballads are gone. %% Within a computer, natural language is unnatural. %% Within a fountain crystal clear, A golden apple doth appear, No doors there are to this stronghold, Yet thieves break in and steal the gold. An egg %% Within a month [in 1969] I had met the first of a small but not uninfluential community of people who violently opposed SALT for a simple reason: It might keep America from developing a first-strike capability against the Soviet Union. I'll never forget being lectured by an Air Force colonel about how we should have "nuked" the Soviets in late 1940s before they got The Bomb. I was told that if SALT would go away, we'd soon have the capability to nuke them again - and this time we'd use it. -- Roger Molander [former nuclear strategist for the White House's National Security Council, Washington Post, 21 March, 1982] %% Within that porch, across the way. I see two naked eyes this night; Two eyes that neither shut nor blink, Searching my face with a green light. But cats to me are strange - I cannot sleep if one is near; And though I'm sure I see those eyes I'm not so sure a body's there! -- William Henry Davis %% Within the earth, a mountain: The image of Modesty. Thus the superior man reduces that which is too much, And augments that which is too little. He weighs things and makes them equal. %% Within the earth, wood grows: The image of Pushing Upward. Thus the superior man of devoted character Heaps up small things In order to achieve something high and great. %% Within the oyster's shell uncouth The purest pearl may hide, Trust me you'll find a heart of truth Within that rough inside. -- Mrs. Osgood %% Without Time, everything would happen at once. %% Without a thorough understanding of tactics, there can be no effective strategy; therefore, any general must have a good foundation in the tactical aspects of warfare. However, it is not necessary for a general to be an excellent swordsman, musketeer, or tank gunner. It is sufficient to understand the strengths, weaknesses, and proper use of the forces available, and to know the strengths and weaknesses of your enemy. -- Phillip Harbison (alvitar@xavax.com) %% Without adventure civilization is in full decay. -- Alfred North Whitehead %% Without blame. %% Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in the way he did. In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhere as an indispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was no less important to him than his table or his white robe. -- Stefan Zweigs, Biography of Balzac %% Without feeling there's no reason to live. -- Andre Kertesz, photographer, 1894-1985 %% Without fools there would be no wisdom. %% Without freedom, no one really has a name. -- Milton Acorda %% Without health you cannot enjoy wealth or happiness. %% Without life, Biology itself would be impossible. %% Without love intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence love is not enough. -- Ashley Montagu %% Without vigorous, farsighted and continuing encouragement of scientific research, we are in a position of eating our seed corn: we may fend off starvation for one more winter, but we have removed the last hope of surviving the following winter. -- Carl Sagan %% Without you my world would be less than real. -- lmy %% Wizards do not sleep. %% Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood. -- William Shakespeare %% Woke up this mornin' an' I had myself a beer, Yeah, Ah woke up this mornin' an' I had myself a beer The future's uncertain and the end is always near. -- Jim Morrison, "Roadhouse Blues" %% Woke up this morning, don't believe what I saw. Hundred billion bottles washed up on the shore. Seems I never noted being alone. Hundred billion castaways looking for a call. %% Wolf: Ready, villain, and able. -- "Laughs Unlimited" %% Wolfgang's Third Law: It can't work. %% Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them. -- Dumas %% Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists. -- Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) %% Woman on Street: Sir, you are drunk; very, very drunk. Winston Churchill: Madame, you are ugly; very, very ugly. I shall be sober in the morning. %% Woman was God's second mistake. -- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) %% Woman was taken out of man -- not out of his head, to rule over him; nor out of his feet, to be trampled under by him; but out of his side, to be equal to him -- under his arm, that he might protect her, and near his heart that he might love her. -- Henry %% Woman who cooks carrots and peas in same pot very unsanitary. %% Woman who spring on inner-spring this spring, have off-spring next spring. %% Woman would be more charming if one could fall into her arms without falling into her hands. -- DeGourmont %% Woman's advice has little value, but he who won't take it is a fool. -- Cervantes %% Women Unite! Make *___him* sleep in the wet spot tonight! %% Women and asses and nuts require strong hands. %% Women and elephants never forget an injury. -- Saki [H. H. Munro] (1870-1916), "Reginald", 1904 %% Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they're the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with. -- Warren Beatty %% Women are all alike. When they're maids they're mild as milk: once make 'em wives, and they lean their backs against their marriage certificates, and defy you. -- Jerrold %% Women are always so eager to urge bachelors into matrimony: is it from charity or revenge? -- Scott %% Women are just like men, only different. %% Women are like elephants to me: I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one. -- W. C. Fields %% Women are nothing but machines for producing children. -- Napoleon Bonaparte, quoted in "The Book of Insults", 1978 %% Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more. -- Stephens %% Women can keep a secret just as well as men, but it takes more of them to do it. %% Women do come with instructions; ask them. %% Women get minks the same way minks get minks. %% Women give themselves to God when the Devil wants nothing more to do with them. -- Arnould %% Women give to men the very gold of their lives. Possibly; but they invariably want it back in such very small change. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) %% Women have more strength in their looks than we have in our laws, and more power by their tears than we have by our arguments. -- Saville %% Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. -- Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own", 1929 %% Women in Joliet, Illinois, can be jailed for trying on more than six dresses in one store. %% Women in Utah must remember that state law prohibits heels over one and a half inches high. %% Women in love consist of a little sighing, a little crying, a little dying-- and a good deal of lying. -- Ansey %% Women reason with the heart and are much less often wrong than men who reason with the head. -- DeLescure %% Women should be obscene and not heard. %% Women sometimes forgive a man who forces the opportunity, but never a man who misses one. -- Charles De Talleyrand-Perigord %% Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us and are always bothering us to do something for them. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) %% Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable. -- Edward Abbey %% Women want their men to be cops. They want you to punish them and tell them what the limits are. The only thing that women hate worse from a man than being slapped is when you get on your knees and say you're sorry. -- Mort Sahl %% Women waste men's lives and think they have indemnified them by a few gracious words. -- Balzac %% Women who desire to be like men, lack ambition. %% Women who love only women may have a good point. -- Edward Abbey %% Women who miscalculate are called 'mothers'. -- Abigail Van Buren %% Women who want equality must be prepared to give it and believe in it, and in order to do that it is not enough to state that you are as good as any man, but also it must be stated he is as good as you and both will be humans together. -- Anne Roiphe %% Women who want to be equal to men lack imagination -- Graffito in a women's restroom %% Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves. -- Amiel %% Women! Can't live with 'em and no resale value. %% Women, can't live with them, can't leave them by the curb when you're done with 'em. %% Women, when they are not in love, have all the cold blood of an experienced attorney. -- Balzac %% Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron. -- Balzac %% Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try. -- Edward Abbey %% Womens Libbers are OK. I just wouldn't want my sister to marry one. %% Won't dancing be more fun if women had their breasts on the other side? %% Won't walk back from deadman's curve. %% Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder. -- Socrates (470?-399 B.C.), [quoting Plato] %% Wonderful day. Your hangover just makes it seem terrible. %% Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance -- the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) %% Wood's Axiom: As soon as a still-to-be-finished computer task becomes a life-or-death situation, the power fails. %% Woofing Cookies, The %% Woolsey-Swanson Rule: People would rather live with a problem they cannot solve rather than accept a solution they cannot understand. %% Word Processor: Software that magically transforms its user into a professional author. %% Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things. -- Johnson %% Words are the voice of the heart. %% Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. -- Rudyard Kipling %% Words can never express what words can never express. %% Words divide us, action unites us. -- Slogan of the Tupamaros %% Words have a longer life than deeds. -- Pindar %% Words have the power to 'condition' you, they say, and refuse to identify the reason why words have the power to change your -- blank-out. A student reading a book understands it through a process of -- blank-out. A scientist working on an invention is engaged in the activity of -- blank-out. A psychologist helping a neurotic to solve a problem and untangle a conflict, does it by means of -- blank-out. An industrialist -- blank-out -- there is no such person. A factory is a 'natural resource', like a tree, a rock or a mud puddle. -- John Galt %% Words with a 'k' in them are funny. If it doesn't have a 'k', it's not funny. -- Willie Clark %% Work Rule: Death (Other Than Your Own) -- This is no excuse. If you can arrange for funeral services to be held late in the afternoon, however, we can let you off an hour early, provided all you work is up to date. %% Work Rule: Each day fill lamps, clean chimneys, and trim wicks. Wash the windows once a week. %% Work Rule: Entirely too much time is being spent in the washrooms. In the future, you will follow the practice of going in alphabetical order. For instance, those whose surnames begin with "A" will be allowed to go from 9 - 9:05 AM, and so on. If you are unable to go at your appointed time, it will be necessary to wait until the next day when your time comes around again. %% Work Rule: Every employee should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years, so that he will not become a burden on society or his betters. %% Work Rule: Men employees will be given off each week for courting purposes, or two evenings a week if they go regularly to church. %% Work Rule: Office employees will daily sweep the floors, dust the furniture, shelves, and showcases. %% Work Rule: Sickness -- No excuses will be acceptable. We will no longer accept your doctor's statement as proof of illness, as we believe that if you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to come to work. %% Work Rule: This office will open at 7 AM and close at 8 PM except on the Sabbath, on which day we will remain closed. Each employee is expected to spend the Sabbath by attending church and contributing liberally to the cause of the Lord. %% Work Rule: After an employee has spent his 13 hours of labor in the office, he should spend the remaining time reading the Bible and other good books. %% Work Rule: Any employee who smokes Spanish cigars, uses liquor in any form, or frequents pool and public halls, or gets shaved in a barber shop, will give me good reasons to suspect his worth, intentions, integrity and honesty. %% Work Rule: Each clerk will bring in a bucket of water and scuttle of coal for the day's business. %% Work Rule: Make your pens carefully. You may whittle nibs to your individual taste. %% Work Rule: The employee who has performed his labors faithfully and without a fault for five years, will be given an increase of five cents per day in his pay, providing profits from the business permit it. %% Work always expands to fill the available time to complete it. %% Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) %% Work continues in this area. -- DEC's SPR-Answering-Automaton %% Work expands to fill the time available for its completion; the thing to be done swells in perceived importance and complexity in a direct ratio with the time to be spent in its completion. %% Work flows toward the competent until they are submerged. %% Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence. -- Dr. Laurence J. Peter %% Work is for people who can't %% Work is of two kinds: (1) Altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other such matter; (2) Telling other people to do so. The first is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and high paid. %% Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Charles Schulz %% Work is the curse of the drinking man. %% Work is the great basic principle that makes all things possible, both in time and in eternity. -- Bruce R. McConkie %% Work on What Has Been Spoiled Has supreme success. It furthers one to cross the great water. Before the starting point, three days. After the starting point, three days. %% Work smarter, not harder, and be careful of your speling. %% Work to become, not to acquire. %% Work was impossible. The geeks had broken my spirit. They had done too many things wrong. It was never like this for Mencken. He lived like a Prussian gambler -- sweating worse than Bryan on some nights and drunker than Judas on others. It was all a dehumanized nightmare...and these raddled cretins have the gall to complain about my deadlines. -- Hunter S. Thompson, "Bad Nerves in Fat City", "Generation of Swine" %% Work without a vision is slavery, Vision without work is a pipe dream, But vision with work is the hope of the world. %% Working all day in my daddy's garage, I'm driving all night chasing some mirage. %% Working as Designed n. Colloquialism used by software maintenance people to indicate that while there is a problem, it is not considered to affect the program when the program is used for the purpose for which it was designed. Of course, nobody uses programs the way that programmers design them. The general user response is usually some nasty remark about the 'designers' mental condition when he designed it. -- IBM Jargon File %% Working hard around here is like pissing on yourself in a dark suit; you get a warm feeling but nobody notices. %% Working here is like a pregnancy. After nine months you wish you hadn't come. %% Works of genius are the first things in the world. %% Works used in the creation of Earthsea are: (This loose bibliography is in rough order of importance) 1. "The Earthsea Trilogy" by Ursula K. LeGuin. 2. "The Traveller in Black" by John Bruner. 3. "Creatures of Light and Darkness" by Roger Zelazny. 4. "Catch a Falling Star" by John Bruner. 5. "The Interaction of Color" by Josef Albers. 6. "Lord of Light" by Roger Zelazny. 7. "Tales of Mystery and Imagination" by Edgar Allan Poe. 8. "Finnegan's Wake" by James Joyce. 9. "Inferno" versions by both Dante and Larry Niven. 10. "Doorways in the Sand" by Roger Zelazny. 11. "The Sign of the Unicorn" by Roger Zelazny. 12. "Dune" by Frank Herbert. 13. "In the Frame" by Dick Francis. 14. "The Musgrave Ritual" by Arthur Conan Doyle. 15. "The Moonstone" by Wilkie Collins. %% Works without faith are like a fish without water, it wants the element it should live in. A building without a basis cannot stand; faith is the foundation, and every good action is as a stone laid. -- Feltham %% Workstations are like toothbrushes. Nobody else may use mine, especially not while I'm using it! -- Robert Van Renesse, during his talk at the Usenix Microkernel Workshop. %% World War III? No thanks! %% World ending in 5 minutes; please log out. %% World ends today at 9:30pm! Film at 11:00... %% World tensions have, if anything, increased in the quarter century since H. G. Wells uttered his glum warning: "There is no more evil thing on earth than race prejudice, none at all. I write deliberately -- it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world." -- Sydney Harris %% World's shortest ghost story: The last man on earth sat down in his room. Suddenly there was a knock on the door! %% World's shortest horror story: The last man on earth sat down in his room. There was a knock on the door. -- Published (by whom?) in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction World's even shorter horror story: There are some things man was not meant to know. -- Larry Niven %% World-wide practice of Conservation and the fair and continued access by all nations to the resources they need are the two indispensable foundations of continuous plenty and of permanent peace. -- Gifford Pinchot %% Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke. -- Claude McDonald %% Worry : The interest paid on trouble before it's due %% Worrying is like rocking in a rocking chair-- It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere. %% Worst-dressed sentient being in the known universe %% Worth seeing? Yes, but not worth going to see. %% Would I ask you a rhetorical question? %% Would I sell my services to a Third World country? Ask again in six months. -- Chief scientist at a Russian nuclear facility, after the Bush administration dithered on aid to Russia %% Would it help if I got out and pushed? -- Princess Leia Organa %% Would it save you some time if I just gave up and went mad now? %% Would that be a red Hiney or a dry Hiney? When you're talkin' wine, you're talking Hiney. Go out and get some Hiney today! %% Would that my hand were as swift as my tongue. -- Alfieri %% Would the last person to leave Michigan please turn out the lights? %% Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? -- John Heywood %% Would you care to drift aimlessly in my direction? %% Would you like to come to a party in my toolshed? %% Would you like to hear a story? This one is about a father and son in a playground twelve years ago, in the spring, around noon. The boy was five. He had a basketball, which the dribbled off his toes half the time, and which he kept shooting at the hoop - underhand, both hands, straining to reach the rim. The father sat on a bench and watched. The boy kept at it. Then some bigger boys sauntered over, snatched the ball away and shot around, leaving the five-year-old watching too. Gearing up for the rescue, the father asked his son if he wanted him to retrieve the ball. The boy said, "No. I think I can handle it." Which he did, simply by standing among the others patiently, occasionally catching the ball and passing it to one of them, until one of them eventually passed it to him. That's all there is to that story. The five-year-old continued to play ball, and his father sat in the sun. %% Would you like to see my boa constrictor? %% Would you like to sin With Elinor Glyn On a tiger-skin? Or would you prefer to err with her on some other fur? -- A. Glyn, "Elinor Glyn", 1907 %% Would you mind terribly much if I asked you to take your silly-assed problem down the hall? %% Would you people stop playing these stupid games?!?!?!!!! %% Would you rather have a 5-inch hard or an 8-inch floppy? %% Would you trade your regular detergent for two of this other brand? %% Wouldn't you rather be a lifeguard? %% Wow do you feel strong! %% Wow! This makes you feel great! %% Wrapped in the hide of a yellow cow. %% Wrestlers try not to do it on their backs. %% Wrestling with a marshmallow. -- An analyst from the conservative Heritage Foundation, describing the process of reading President George Bush's 32-page ``strategic vision'' paper %% Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) %% Write a letter to the New York Times. %% Write a letter to the Voice. %% Write a letter to your congressman. %% Write down the advice of him who loves you, thou you like it not at present. %% Write home; they miss you. %% Write lock error on disk %% Write neatly. %% Write yourself a threatening letter and pen a defiant reply. %% Writers desire to be paid, authors desire recognition. -- James L. Davis %% Writers do it between periods. %% Writers of novels and romances in general bring a double loss on their readers, they rob them both of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things that never have been, nor are likely to be; either confounding or perverting history or truth, inflating the mind, or committing violence upon the understanding. -- Lady Montague %% Writers should avoid the academy. When a writer begins to accept pay for talking about words, we know what he will produce soon: nothing but words. -- Edward Abbey %% Writers, composers, entertainers and such know an awful truth: it is easier to please a million people you don't know than to please one person you do know. -- Richard J. Needham %% Writing Rule 1 - Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent. %% Writing Rule 10 - About sentence fragments. %% Writing Rule 11 - In letters themes reports articles and stuff like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart. %% Writing Rule 13 - Its important to use apostrophe's right. %% Writing Rule 14 - Don't abbrev. %% Writing Rule 15 - Check to see if you any words out. %% Writing Rule 16 - In my opinion I think that an author when he is writing shouldn't get into the habit of making use of too many unnecessary words that he does not really need. %% Writing Rule 17 - And, of course, there's that old one: Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. %% Writing Rule 18 - Also, never obfuscate your documentation with pretentious, ostentatious or histrionic language. %% Writing Rule 19 - Last but not least, lay off cliches. %% Writing Rule 20 - Subject and verb always has to agree. %% Writing Rule 22 - Do not use a foreign term when there is an adequate English quid pro quo. %% Writing Rule 23 - However, if you must use a foreign term, it is de rigor to spell it correctly. %% Writing Rule 24 - It behooves the writer to avoid archaic expressions. %% Writing Rule 25 - Do not use hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it effectively. %% Writing Rule 27 - Mixed metaphors are a pain in the ass and ought to be thrown out the window. %% Writing Rule 28 - Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct. %% Writing Rule 29 - Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas. %% Writing Rule 30 - Consult the dictionary frequently to avoid mispelling. %% Writing Rule 32 - Don't use tautological, repetitive or redundant statements. %% Writing Rule 34 - Puns are for children - not for readers who are groan. %% Writing Rule 35 - The passive voice shouldn't be used. %% Writing Rule 36 - Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed. %% Writing Rule 39 - Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them. %% Writing Rule 4 - Watch out for irregular verbs which has cropped into our language. %% Writing Rule 40 - Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. %% Writing Rule 41 - Avoid colloquial stuff. %% Writing Rule 42 - No sentence fragments. %% Writing Rule 43 - Remember to finish what you. %% Writing Rule 44 - The subject of a sentence and the principal verb should not, as a rule, be separated by a phrase or clause that can be transferred to the beginning. %% Writing Rule 6 - A writer mustn't shift your point of view. %% Writing Rule 7 - When dangling, don't use participles. %% Writing Rule 9 - Don't use a run on sentence you got to punctuate it. %% Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. -- George Orwell (1903-1950) %% Writing code is easy: just get it write the first time! %% Writing for television is a debilitating exercise. How can you inspire an audience to their best when every fourteen minutes someone interrupts to tell them that they're unfit to live with? The ultimate purpose of commercial television is to convince the viewer that he smells bad. -- Solomon Short %% Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. %% Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down and write it as it occurs to you. The writing is easy--it's the occurring that's hard. -- Stephen Leacock %% Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of -- but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. %% Writing of letters of recommendation has become hazardous; tell the truth and you can be sued if the contents are negative. A collection of "virtually litigation-proof" phrases has been collated, called the Lexicon of Intentionally Ambiguous Recommendations, or LIAR. Here are some examples: 1) An inept person - "I enthusiastically recommend this candidate with no qualifications whatsoever." 2) Doesn't get along with others - "I am pleased to say that this candidate is a former colleague of mine." 3) Unproductive - "I can assure you that no person would be better for the job." 4) Not worth considering - "I would urge you to waste no time making this candidate an offer of employment." %% Writing on the wall: "Will trade three blind crabs for two with no teeth." -- Edward Abbey %% Writing software is more fun than working. %% Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will like them only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them. -- Anacharsis (c. 600 B.C.) %% Wynne's Law: Negative slack tends to increase. %% XEROX never does anything original. %% XEROX: Your BUREAUCRACY is our business. %% XModem : A telecommunications device that was on the losing end of an encounter with lightning. %% Xavier Greenstamps %% Xerox Innovates Apple Litigates (Now Xerox Litigates, too -- sigh) %% Xerox does it again and again and again and again and... %% Xerox: A trademark for a photocopying device that can make rapid reproductions of human error, perfectly. -- Merle L. Meacham %% Y Fly 2 London %% YEAGER'S LAW: Washing machines only break down during the wash cycle. %% YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT: finally got one that worked %% YO-YO: Something that is occasionally up but normally down. (see also Computer). %% YOU ARE IN ERRER! %% Ya gotta be subtle! -- Mike Hammer %% Yak - dog food! %% Yakity-yak -- Don't talk back. %% Yale is terrific for anything you wanna do, so long as it doesn't involve people with sneakers, guns, dope, lust, or sloth. -- Tom Wolfe, "Bonfire of the Vanities" %% Yankees do it frugally. %% Yawd [noun, Bostonese]: the campus of Have Id. -- Webster's Unafraid Dictionary %% Ye Gods! Is NOTHING sacred? %% Ye Olde Disclaimer of Responsibility: The items and quotations contained in this file may or may not be coprighted material. The above-mentioned items were contributed from many sources, and many are unattributed. I do not possess the time or the background to verify that they are non-in-fringing. Therefore, this material is submitted 'as is', with the only recourse being that if you report such infringement to me, I will remove the item in question. Let this be a warning to you: This file is in use at several (many?) sites in the area. It is believed that the majority of offensive messages have been screened out. However, an occasional 'zinger' slips by. Also, people's ideas of 'offensive' vary. If one message offends you, tell me the offending one and I'll remove it. %% Yea, from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records. -- William Shakespeare, "Hamlet" %% Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of APL, I shall fear no evil, for I can string 6 primitive monadic and dyadic operators together. -- Steve Higgins %% Yeah! You're leaving! %% Yeah, God is dead, he laughed himself to death. %% Yeah, I got a dog with no legs -- I call him Cigarette. Every night, I take him out for a drag. %% Yeah, I was ugly, my mother breastfed me through a straw. %% Yeah, there are more important things in life than money, but they won't go out with you if you don't have any. %% Years ago my mom was driving a Plymouth Volare station wagon. The Plymouth Volare was listed as the car "Least likely to be stolen." %% Yeccchhh! That must be a face, it has ears! %% Yech! %% Yech! This stuff tastes like poison. (But in fact it was biologically contaminated orange juice.) %% Yeeecchh. This is terrible code. %% Yellow Pages do it with Walking Fingers. %% Yellow Pig. %% Yellow light. Supreme good fortune. %% Yes my son, long ago mail was read 1 packet at a time. %% Yes sir. No sir. No excuse sir. Sir, may I ask a question. Sir, may I make a statement. -- The five reponses a West Point Cadet may give to a superior during the Plebe year. %% Yes! Oh yeah! %% Yes, I mind if you smoke! %% Yes, this is an age of moral crisis. Yes, you are bearing punishment for your evil. But it is not man who is now on trial and it is not human nature that will take the blame. It is your moral code that's through, this time. Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course. And if you wish to go on living, what you now need is not to return to morality -- you who have never known any -- but to discover it. -- John Galt %% Yes, well, according to classical aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly. -- 3rd Doctor, THE DAEMONS %% Yesterday I became a Jehovah's Witness. Not because of the religion but so they would stop comming to my house. %% Yesterday I bought a decaffeinated coffee table. And you can tell by looking at it. -- Steven Wright %% Yesterday I could't spell engineer, now I are one. %% Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone...when I came back the entire area was missing... -- Stephen Wright %% Yesterday I was on a guilt trip ... today I'm on an ego trip. %% Yesterday, I was reading an ad for Dodge trucks in Popular Mechanics, as I was reading the *fine print* it stated that "These outlandish claims are Based on test results of ... and then it finished with ... "Buckle up for safety, Nice magnifying glass." %% Yet I argue not Against heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward. -- Milton %% Yet [white] men [of South Africa] were afraid, with a fear that was deep, deep in the heart, a fear so deep that they hid their kindness, ... They were afraid because they were so few. And fear could not be cast out, but by love. -- Alan Paton, "Cry, The Beloved Country", 1948 %% Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -- J. B. Cabell [The Silver Stallion] %% Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) %% Yield to Temptation ... it may not pass your way again. -- Lazarus Long, from Robert A. Heinlein's "Time Enough For Love" %% Yippies, hippies, yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam. -- Spiro T. Agnew %% Yngvi is a louse! %% Yogi's son Dale, asked to compare himself with his father: "Our similarities are different." -- Yogi Berra %% You Women's Lib gals won't agree, But dependent on men you must be : You'll need a him With a rod firm and trim, To puggle your water-drains free! %% You age as well as most people do--maybe even better. %% You ain't got no gems, Hacker! %% You ain't learning nothing when you're talking. %% You ain't nothin' but a hound dog. %% You aint nothin' but a black dog... -- Dread Zepplin (A group featuring an Elvis impersonator backed up by a Reggae band singing your favorite Led Zepplin tunes) %% You already have it. %% You always have the option of pitching baseballs at empty spray paint cans in a cul-de-sac in a Cleveland suburb. %% You always introduce the younger person to the older person, using the wording: "Miss Brown, I'd like to introduce you to an older person" (unless her name is not "Miss Brown"). If you do not know a person's age, ask for a driver's license and a major credit card. If you are introduced to a member of a minority group, use the "high-five" style handshake, followed by a remark designed to show you don't mind a bit, such as "I see you are a (name of a minority group)! Good!" -- Dave Barry, "The Stuff of Etiquette" %% You amass things only to enjoy them. %% You amaze me. No known sentient species copulates as often as you do. Go, then. Use caution where you sit. Remember that unfamiliar life- forms are about. -- Nessus (to Louis Wu and Teela Brown) "Ringworld" %% You and I might be related. My dad's f**ked every whore in this town. %% You and who else? %% You appeal to a small, select group of confused people. %% You are Number Six. %% You are a Time Lord, a Lord of Time. Are there Lords in such a small domain? -- Captain Striker, Enlightenment %% You are a bundle of energy always on the go. %% You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here. %% You are a general favorite among your many friends. %% You are a person of firm, yet honest intentions. %% You are a pioneer type and hold most people in contempt. %% You are a quick and intelligent thinker. %% You are a sociable, outgoing person with an honest face who applies your talents creatively to academic and business pursuits. Your calculus grades may be misleading, but skill at lying, deception, and abusing people's trust is much more useful than calculus anyway. %% You are a taxi driver. Your cab is yellow and black, and has been in use for seven years. One of its windshield wipers is broken, and the carburator needs adjusting. The tank holds 20 gallons, but at the moment is only three-quarters full. How old is the taxi driver?" %% You are a tower of strength in the office, but only so-so in bed. %% You are a wish to be here wishing yourself. -- Philip Whalen %% You are about one hundred feet above the bottom of the volcano. The top of the volcano is clearly visible here. %% You are about ten feet above the ground nestled among some large branches. The nearest branch above you is beyond your reach. %% You are about to make a most valuable discovery. %% You are about two hundred feet above the volcano floor. Looming above is the rim of the volcano. There is a small ledge on the west side. %% You are almost there. %% You are already carrying it! %% You are already empty handed. %% You are already in the #, cretin! %% You are already wearing some armor. %% You are already wearing that. %% You are already wielding that! %% You are always busy. %% You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk. %% You are an individual interested in forward thrust and the future. %% You are an insult to my intelligence! I demand that you log off immediately. %% You are at Witt's end. Passages lead off in *all* directions. %% You are at a business lunch when you are suddenly overcome with an uncontrollable desire to pick your nose. Since this is definitely a no-no, you: (a) Pretend to wave to someone across the room and with one fluid motion, bury your forefinger in your nostril right up to the 4th joint. (b) Get everyone drunk and organize a nose picking contest with a prize to the one who makes his nose bleed first. (c) Drop your napkin on the floor and when you bend over to pick it up, blow your nose on your sock. %% You are at a complex junction. A low hands and knees passage from the north joins a higher crawl from the east to make a walking passage going west. There is also a large room above. The air is damp here. %% You are at a crossover of a high N/S passage and a low E/W one. %% You are at a junction whose only distinguishing feature is a red square painted on the floor. %% You are at a wide place in a very tight N/S canyon. %% You are at death's door. %% You are at one end of a vast hall stretching forward out of sight to the west. There are openings to either side. Nearby, a wide stone staircase leads downward. The hall is filled with wisps of white mist swaying to and fro almost as if alive. A cold wind blows up the staircase. There is a passage at the top of a dome behind you. %% You are at one end of an immense north/south passage. %% You are at the base of flood control dam #3, which looms above you and to the north. The Frigid River is flowing by here. Across the river are the white cliffs, which seem to form a giant wall stretching from north to south along the east shore of the river as it winds its way downstream. %% You are at the bottom of a flight of stairs in the haunted mansion. To the north you see the main lobby; to the west, a little nook. %% You are at the bottom of a large dormant volcano. High above you light may be seen entering from the cone of the volcano. The only exit here is to the north. %% You are at the bottom of a spiral staircase in the magic castle. To the east you see a small nook; to the west, the end of a long hall. To the south you see the throne room. %% You are at the bottom of the grand staircase in the magic castle. To the west you can see the main lobby. %% You are at the bottom of the pit with a broken neck. %% You are at the bottom of the western pit in the twopit room. There is a large hole in the wall about 25 feet above you. %% You are at the east end of a very long hall apparently without side chambers. To the east a low wide crawl slants up. To the north a round two foot hole slants down. %% You are at the east end of the twopit room. The floor here is littered with thin rock slabs, which make it easy to descend the pits. There is a path here bypassing the pits to connect passages from east and west. There are holes all over, but the only big one is on the wall directly over the west pit where you can't get to it. %% You are at the edge of a large underground reservoir. An opaque cloud of white mist fills the room and rises rapidly upward. The lake is fed by a stream, which tumbles out of a hole in the wall about 10 feet overhead and splashes noisily into the water somewhere within the mist. The only passage goes back toward the south. %% You are at the end of a side-trail. Recent digging has uncovered a beautifully cut yellow diamond the size of a $20 dollar gold piece. %% You are at the end of the driveway. You see walls to the north and south, and to the west a high wall with an open garbage can chained to it. %% You are at the junction of two corridors, one leading East, the other traveling upwards and continuing southward in the other direction. %% You are at the north end of a long balcony outside the wizard's room. To the west you see the ocean; to the east, the window of the magic castle. %% You are at the north end of a long hall in the magic castle. To the east you see a spiral staircase. %% You are at the northeast end of an immense room, even larger than the giant room. It appears to be a repository for the "Adventure" program. Massive torches far overhead bathe the room with smoky yellow light. Scattered about you can be seen a pile of bottles (all of them empty), a nursery of young beanstalks murmuring quietly, a bed of oysters, a bundle of black rods with rusty stars on their ends, and a collection of brass lanterns. Off to one side a great many dwarves are sleeping on the floor, snoring loudly. A sign nearby reads: "Do not disturb the dwarves!" An immense mirror is hanging against one wall, and stretches to the other end of the room, where various other sundry objects can be glimpsed dimly in the distance. %% You are at the northwest corner of a vast desert island. You can see a pyramid to the southeast. %% You are at the periphery of a large dome, which forms the ceiling of another room below. Protecting you from a precipitous drop is a wooden railing which circles the dome. %% You are at the south end of a hall in the haunted mansion. To the north you see a faint pulsating glow. To the south you see a flight of stairs. %% You are at the south end of a hall in the magic castle. To the west you see an old door. %% You are at the south end of a long hall in the magic castle. To the east you see a grand staircase; to the south, an old door. You hear ghostly music from above. %% You are at the southwest end of the repository. To one side is a pit full of fierce green snakes. On the other side is a row of small wicker cages, each of which contains a little sulking bird. In one corner is a bundle of black rods with rusty marks on their ends. A large number of velvet pillows are scattered about on the floor. A vast mirror stretches off to the northeast. At your feet is a large steel grate, next to which is a sign which reads, "Treasure vault. Keys in main office." %% You are at the top of Aragain Falls, an enormous waterfall with a drop of about 450 feet. The only path here is on the north end. There is a man-sized barrel here which you could fit into. %% You are at the top of a flight of stairs in the haunted mansion. To the east you see a window. %% You are at the top of a grand staircase in the magic castle. You see the end of a hall to the west; to the east, a medium-sized room. %% You are at the top of a spiral staircase in the haunted mansion. To the west you can see the end of a hall. %% You are at the top of a spiral staircase in the magic castle. To the south you see a hall. %% You are at the top of a staircase descending to the north. Walls are just visible at the extreme edges of your light to the east and west. The staircase descends at a steep 45 degree angle. %% You are at the top of a staircase which descends steeply at a 45 degree angle to the east. Walls can be seen to the west and south. %% You are at the top of a staircase which descends steeply to the south. There are walls visible to the east and west. %% You are at the top of a steep incline above a large room. You could climb down here, but you would not be able to climb up. There is a passage leading back to the north. %% You are at the top of the great canyon on its south wall. From here there is a marvelous view of the canyon and parts of the Frigid River upstream. Across the canyon, the walls of the white cliffs still appear to loom far above. Following the canyon upstream (north and northwest), Aragain Falls may be seen, complete with rainbow. Fortunately, my vision is better than average, and I can discern the top of flood control dam #3 far to the distant north. To the west and south can be seen an immense forest, stretching for miles around. It is possible to climb down into the canyon from here. %% You are at the top of the well. Well done. There are etchings on the side of the well. There is a small crack across the floor at the entrance to a room on the east, but it can be crossed easily. %% You are at the west end of Hall of Mists. A low wide crawl continues west and another goes north. To the south is a little passage 6 feet off the floor. %% You are at the west end of a very long featureless hall. The hall joins up with a narrow north/south passage. %% You are at the west end of the the main in the palace. Two doorways lead out of the north wall, one to the northeast and the other to the northwest. The south wall is covered by an ancient fresco faded beyond all recognition and defaced over the centuries by numerous vandals. The hallway leads back to the east. %% You are at the west end of the twopit room. There is a large hole in the wall above the pit at this end of the room. %% You are at your very best when things are at their worst. %% You are aware that merit is not always rewarded. %% You are beginning to feel hungry. %% You are beginning to feel weak. %% You are behind the white house. In one corner of the house there is a window which is #. %% You are being crushed. %% You are being followed by a very large, tame bear. %% You are being paged. %% You are being punished for your misbehaviour! %% You are being watched... %% You are being watched...the video screen is two way. %% You are beneath the walls of the river canyon, which may be climbable here. There is a small stream here, which is the lesser part of the runoff of Aragain Falls. To the north is a narrow path. %% You are blinded by a blast of light! %% You are broad minded and socially active. %% You are building up credit for the future. %% You are capable of planning your future. %% You are careful and systematic in your business arrangements. %% You are carrying: %% You are caught in a beartrap. %% You are certainly entitled to your opinion. Fortunately, the rest of us are entitled to ignore it. %% You are clever, alert, and intellectual. %% You are close to Narveduen, which is just to the northwest. To the southwest is another island. %% You are confused! %% You are confused; but this is your normal state. %% You are conscious again. %% You are conservative and afraid of taking risks. %% You are cordially invited to go screw yourself. %% You are covered with bat turds, cretin. %% You are crawling over cobbles in a low passage. There is a dim light at the east end of the passage. %% You are currently holding the following: %% You are dazed by the ease with which obliteration can be obtained. %% You are declared a Neo-Vulgarian. I have but one copy of Vulgarian Digest [Obscenic Float Trips]. "What kind of man reads VD?" [Photo: Down jacket clad man in foreground surrounded by hundreds of sheep.] -- eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@orville.nas.nasa.gov Resident Cynic, Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers %% You are deeply attache d to your friends and acquaintances. %% You are destined to become the commandant of the fighting men of the department of transportation. %% You are digging into a pile of bat guano. %% You are dishonest, but never to the point of hurting a friend. %% You are domestic and will be happily married %% You are east of the isle of Atnini. A large land mass is visible to the north and nothing but water stretches away to the east. %% You are empty handed. %% You are facing the south side of a white house. There is no door here, and all the windows are barred. %% You are fairminded, just and loving. (And I'm a lousy liar.) %% You are faithful to duty, adaptable to environment, loyal to friends. %% You are false data. %% You are farsighted, a good planner, an ardent lover, and a faithful friend. Oops sorry, wrong fortune. %% You are fighting for survival in your own sweet and gentle way. %% You are fixed in your opinions and will not be easily moved from your purpose. %% You are following a wide path around the outer edge of a large cavern. Far below, through a heavy white mist, strange splashing noises can be heard. The mist rises up through a fissure in the ceiling. The path exits to the south and west. %% You are forced back and trip over your own feet, falling heavily to the floor. %% You are free and that is why you are lost. -- Franz Kafka %% You are frozen by the floating eye's gaze! %% You are generous and always think of the other fellow. %% You are getting more and more confused. %% You are going to get some new clothes. %% You are going to have a new love affair (with a rock). %% You are going to have a new love affair. Be careful or your spouse will find out. %% You are guilty. %% You are heading for a land of sunshine. Hope you're not a snowman. %% You are heading for head-stone for sure. %% You are high above the floor of the volcano. From here the rim of the volcano looks very narrow, and you are quite near it. To the east is what appears to be a viewing ledge, too thin to land on. %% You are immediately south of a rather insignificant pile of rocks which bears the name Norst. In fact, the only notable feature of the "island" is a large square stone tower which occupies virtually the entire isle. %% You are in Bedquilt, a long east/west passage with holes everywhere. To explore at random select north, south, up, or down. %% You are in a 20-foot depression floored with bare dirt. Set into the dirt is a strong steel grate mounted in concrete. A dry streambed leads into the depression. %% You are in a balcony high above the ground. To the south you see the ocean; to the north, the window of the magic castle. %% You are in a barrel. Congratulations. Etched into the side of the barrel is the word "GERONIMO!". %% You are in a cart inside a long mine shaft. The mine extends as far as the lights reach both east and west. There are side-trails both north and south. %% You are in a cart just inside the mine. The mine opens out to the east. %% You are in a cart room that allows access to the inside of the mine. A heavy door to the west stands directly opposite the entrance to the mine proper which is sealed by the carts and air lock. Passages go southwest and north. There is a heavy door to west and an air lock to the east. %% You are in a cave. Passages exit to the south and to the east, but the cave narrows to a crack to the west. The earth is particularly damp here. %% You are in a cavern underground. You see a tunnel leading outward, and dark passages to the north, south, and east. %% You are in a circular room with passages off in eight directions. %% You are in a clearing, with a forest surrounding you on the west and south. %% You are in a closet. To the south you can see the wizard's room. %% You are in a cold and damp corridor where a long east-west passageway intersects with a northward path. %% You are in a coral-lined passageway. A vertical shaft one foot in diameter extends straight up from the roof overhead. Exits lie to the South and North. %% You are in a corridor with polished marble walls. The corridor widens into larger areas as it turns west at its northern and southern ends. %% You are in a cr