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Fix all cases of unintended word doublings (the the, and and, ...) and a
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@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ System going down in 60 seconds
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feel interested.
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"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little
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vexed. "That's what the name is called. The name really is, 'The Aged
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Aged Man.'"
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Man.'"
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"Then I ought to have said "That's what the song is called'?"
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Alice corrected herself.
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"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is
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@ -5106,7 +5106,7 @@ left hand corner of Prize Claim Form) and affix it to the 3x5 card
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below your address label. (d) Then print on your 3x5 card, above your
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computer-printed name and address the words "CARTER & VAN PEEL
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SWEEPSTAKES" (Use all capital letters.) (e) Finally place 3x5 card
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(without bending) into a plain envelope [NOTE: do NOT use the the
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(without bending) into a plain envelope [NOTE: do NOT use the
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Official Prize Claim and CVP Perfume Reply Envelope or you may be
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disqualified], and mail to: CVP, Box 1320, Westbury, NY 11595. Print
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this address correctly. Comply with above instructions carefully and
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@ -7877,7 +7877,7 @@ shopping center in the world?
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If you throw a New Year's Party, the worst thing that you can do would
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be to throw the kind of party where your guests wake up today, and call
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you to say they had a nice time. Now you'll be be expected to throw
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you to say they had a nice time. Now you'll be expected to throw
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another party next year.
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What you should do is throw the kind of party where your guest wake up
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@ -9600,7 +9600,7 @@ mine. Better, probably, because you haven't had four beers.
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Manual, n.:
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A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a
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given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The
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information you need in in the others.
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information you need is in the others.
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-- Ray Simard
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Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon,
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@ -11913,7 +11913,7 @@ RY RUNNING LOW. DIVISION UNIT 3 WILL BE OUT OF ACTION UNTIL RY
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RY THURSDAY DUE TO EMERGENCY COG REPLACEMENT - PLEASE ENSURE RY
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RY THAT YOUR PROGRAM DOES NOT ATTEMPT TO DIVIDE BY ZERO AS RY
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RY THIS CAN CAUSE SEVERE DAMAGE (INCLUDING SHAFT BREAKAGES). RY
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RY RY
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RY RY
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RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY
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.
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.
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@ -15280,7 +15280,7 @@ the entire show without answering a single question ...
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Well, I would -- if they realized that we -- again if -- if we led them
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back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds,
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or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they
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they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.
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couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.
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-- President Ronald Reagan, on the MX missile
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"Well, if you can't believe what you read in a comic book, what *___can*
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@ -630,7 +630,7 @@ sadly, "runneth over."
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After being reported missing a day or two later, rangers found two bears,
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one a male, one a female, looking suspiciously overstuffed. They killed
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the female, autopsied her, and sure enough, found the German and the Pole.
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"What do you think?" said the the first ranger.
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"What do you think?" said the first ranger.
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"The Czech is in the male," replied the second.
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%
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A group of soldiers being prepared for a practice landing on a tropical
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@ -2991,7 +2991,7 @@ perception of the elephant.
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attacked the men. He continued to trample them until they were nothing but
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bloody lumps of flesh. Then, strolling away, the elephant remarked, "It just
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goes to show that you can't depend on first impressions. When I first saw
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them I didn't think they they'd be any fun at all."
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them I didn't think they'd be any fun at all."
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Once upon a time there were three brothers who were knights
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in a certain kingdom. And, there was a Princess in a neighboring kingdom
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@ -3807,7 +3807,7 @@ just a case of "uncontained blade liberation."
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feel interested.
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"No, you don't understand," the Knight said, looking a little
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vexed. "That's what the name is called. The name really is, 'The Aged
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Aged Man.'"
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Man.'"
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"Then I ought to have said "That's what the song is called'?"
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Alice corrected herself.
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"No, you oughtn't: that's quite another thing! The song is
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@ -7686,7 +7686,7 @@ monkey and its mother is thirty years. One half of the weight of the monkey,
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plus the weight of the banana, is one forth as much as the weight of the
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weight and the weight of the rope. The monkey's mother is half as old as
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the monkey will be when it is three times as old as its mother was when she
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she was half as old as the monkey will be when when it is as old as its mother
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was half as old as the monkey will be when it is as old as its mother
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will be when she is four times as old as the monkey was when it was twice
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as its mother was when she was one third as old as the monkey was when it
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was old as is mother was when she was three times as old as the monkey was
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@ -14047,7 +14047,7 @@ well. (And post to comp.std.mumps, since they hardly get any articles
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there, and a "comp" group will propagate your article further.)
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You may also find it is more fun to post the article once in each
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group. If you list all the newsgroups in the same article, some newsreaders
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will only show the the article to the reader once! Don't tolerate this.
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will only show the article to the reader once! Don't tolerate this.
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-- Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette
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Dear Emily:
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@ -15180,7 +15180,7 @@ OR'd together, outta sight!
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Double Bucky, I'd like a whole word of,
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Double Bucky, I'm happy I heard of,
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Double Bucky, I'd like a whole word of you!
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-- to Nicholas Wirth, who suggested that an extra bit
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-- to Niklaus Wirth, who suggested that an extra bit
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be added to terminal codes on 36-bit machines for use
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by screen editors. [to the tune of "Rubber Ducky"]
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@ -16340,7 +16340,7 @@ respect to theories about how the process operates.
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-- Martin Gardner, "Irving Kristol and the Facts of Life".
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Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for
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even the greatest fool may ask more the the wisest man can answer.
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even the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
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-- C.C. Colton
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Example is not the main thing in influencing others.
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@ -18376,7 +18376,7 @@ Each item and every farthing has been accounted for, with two regrettable
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exceptions for which I beg your indulgence.
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Unfortunately the sum of one shilling and ninepence remains unaccounted
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for in one infantry battalion's petty cash and there has been a hideous
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confusion as the the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry
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confusion as the number of jars of raspberry jam issued to one cavalry
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regiment during a sandstorm in western Spain. This reprehensible carelessness
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may be related to the pressure of circumstance, since we are war with France, a
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fact which may come as a bit of a surprise to you gentlemen in Whitehall.
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@ -24010,7 +24010,7 @@ If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
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-- W.E. Hickson
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If at first you don't succeed, try try again. Then quit.
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If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit.
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No use being a damn fool about it.
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If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
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@ -24643,7 +24643,7 @@ and never be our destiny.
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-- Rene de Visme Williamson
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%
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If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a
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Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per per gallon,
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Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon,
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and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
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-- Robert Cringely, InfoWorld
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%
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@ -25356,7 +25356,7 @@ lack sufficient imagination.
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%
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If you throw a New Year's Party, the worst thing that you can do would be
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to throw the kind of party where your guests wake up today, and call you to
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say they had a nice time. Now you'll be be expected to throw another party
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say they had a nice time. Now you'll be expected to throw another party
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next year.
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What you should do is throw the kind of party where your guest wake
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up several days from now and call their lawyers to find out if
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@ -30590,7 +30590,7 @@ conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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manual, n:
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A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a given
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item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The information
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you need in in the others.
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you need is in the others.
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-- Ray Simard
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%
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Many a bum show has been saved by the flag.
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@ -30663,7 +30663,7 @@ life of crime after taking college Computer Science courses.
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Many pages make a thick book.
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Many pages make a thick book, except for pocket Bibles which are on very
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very thin paper.
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thin paper.
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Many people are desperately looking for some wise advice
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which will recommend that they do what they want to do.
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@ -31811,7 +31811,7 @@ First his legs and then his thighs, his arms, his nose, his hair, his eyes...
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But all too late, for they were gone, and he had started on his dong...
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"Oh! foolish child!" the father mourns "You could have deep-fried that
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with prawns,
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Some parsley and and some tartar sauce..."
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Some parsley and some tartar sauce..."
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But H. was on his second course: his liver and his lights and lung,
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His ears, his neck, his chin, his tongue; "To think I raised him from the cot,
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And now he's going to scoff the lot!"
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@ -35260,7 +35260,7 @@ Ozman's Laws:
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(4) Pizza always burns the roof of your mouth.
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paak, n: A stadium or inclosed playing field. To put or leave (a
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a vehicle) for a time in a certain location.
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vehicle) for a time in a certain location.
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patato, n: The starchy, edible tuber of a widely cultivated plant.
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Septemba, n: The 9th month of the year.
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shua, n: Having no doubt; certain.
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All trails have more uphill sections
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than they have downhill sections.
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"Shelter", what a nice name for for a place where you polish your cat.
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"Shelter", what a nice name for a place where you polish your cat.
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Sheriff Chameleotoptor sighed with an air of weary sadness, and then
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turned to Doppelgutt and said 'The Senator must really have been on a
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@ -39705,7 +39705,7 @@ then they act as though this was a totally unexpected and very dangerous
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development, although clearly it is what they wanted all along.
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-- Dave Barry
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So this it it. We're going to die.
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So this is it. We're going to die.
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So, what's with this guy Gideon, anyway?
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And why can't he ever remember his Bible?
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@ -46684,7 +46684,7 @@ on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is
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even highly probable.
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-- H.L. Mencken, 1930
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There is is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home.
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-- Ken Olsen (President of Digital Equipment Corporation),
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Convention of the World Future Society, in Boston, 1977
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Well, I would -- if they realized that we -- again if -- if we led them
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back to that stalemate only because our retaliatory power, our seconds,
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or strike at them after our first strike, would be so destructive they
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they couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.
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couldn't afford it, that would hold them off.
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-- Ronald Reagan, on the MX missile
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Well, if you can't believe what you read
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We're happy little Vegemites,
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As bright as bright can be.
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We all all enjoy our Vegemite
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We all enjoy our Vegemite
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For breakfast, lunch and tea.
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Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the
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An Israeli soldier was checking travelers' papers on a road, when a
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man and a heavily pregnant woman on a donkey came by. "Your names please?"
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said the the soldier.
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said the soldier.
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"My name is Mary," said the woman.
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"And mine is Joseph," said the man.
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"Oh," said the soldier, a little taken aback, "And where are you
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1. WITTY AND CHARMING: This is after one or two drinks. The tongue is
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loosened and can yet remain in step with the brain. In the "witty
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and charming" state, one is likely to use foreign idioms and and
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and charming" state, one is likely to use foreign idioms and
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phrases such as "au contraire" in place of "No way, Jose" or
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"Bullsheyet".
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2. RICH AND POWERFUL: By the third drink, you begin mentioning the little
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Chastity is its own punishment.
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Chicago has journalists' bars, ethnic bars, neighborhood bars, even midget
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bars, hundreds, maybe thousands of bars, on on every neighborhood block.
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bars, hundreds, maybe thousands of bars, on every neighborhood block.
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I was drinking on afternoon in O'Rourke's, a bar on the Near North side.
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It was dark and empty, which suited my mood. A fat, stubble-bearded,
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middle-aged man waddled in, took the stool next to mine, and ordered a
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You are not drunk if you can lay on the floor without
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holding on.
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In any household, junk accumulates to the the space
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In any household, junk accumulates to the space
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available for its storage.
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If muprhy's law can go wrong, it will.
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If a series of events can go wrong, it will do so in
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in the worst possible sequence.
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the worst possible sequence.
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After things have gone from bad to worse, the cycle
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-- Miramanee, "The Paradise Syndrome", stardate 4842.6
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... The things love can drive a man to -- the ecstasies, the
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the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious
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miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious
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failures and the glorious victories.
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-- McCoy, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5843.7
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