1 What I can't stand is the feeling that my brain is leaving me for
2 someone more interesting.
4 I leave the show floor, but not before a pack of caffeinated Jolt gum
5 is thrust at me by a hyperactive girl screaming, "Chew more! Do more!"
6 The American will to consume more and produce more personified in a
7 stick of gum. I grab it.
10 I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to
11 say "excuse me, that didn't make any sense." ;-P
14 Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien
15 a ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien a retrancher.
16 (Perfection is apparently not achieved when nothing more can be added,
17 but when nothing else can be removed.)
18 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupe'ry, Terres des Hommes
20 I'd sign up in a hot second for any cellular company whose motto was:
21 "We're less horrible than a root canal with a cold chisel."
24 She was alot like starbucks.
25 IE, generic and expensive.
26 -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001376.html
28 Tell me something interesting about yourself.
30 -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php
32 We were at a chinese resturant.
33 He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune
35 -- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html
37 Three little words. (In decending order of importance.)
41 -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/graphics/batch35.php
43 N: Why should I believe that?"
44 B: Because it's a fact."
46 B: F, A, C, T... fact"
47 N: So you're saying that I should believe it because it's true.
50 -- "Ploy" http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/Ploy.MPG
52 UF: What's your favourite coffee blend?
53 PD: Dark Crude with heavy water. You are understandink? "If geiger
54 counter does not click, the coffee, she is just not thick."
56 "There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the
57 right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."
60 Quite the contrary; they *love* collateral damage. If they can make
61 you miserable enough, maybe you'll stop using email entirely. Once
62 enough people do that, then there'll be no legitimate reason left for
63 anyone to run an SMTP server, and the spam problem will be solved.
64 -- Craig Dickson in <20020909231134.GA18917@linux700.localnet>
66 It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong
69 Filing a bug is probably not going to get it fixed any faster.
72 Build a fire for a man, an he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on
73 fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
76 Dropping non-free would set us back at least, what, 300 packages? It'd
77 take MONTHS to make up the difference, and meanwhile Debian users will
78 be fleeing to SLACKWARE.
80 And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE?
81 -- Matt Zimmerman in <gYuD3D.A.ayC.nGB39@murphy>
83 She was alot like starbucks.
84 IE, generic and expensive.
85 -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch3.htm
87 You could say she lived on the edge... Well, maybe not exactly on the edge,
88 just close enough to watch other people fall off.
89 -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000309.html
91 Guns Don't Kill People.
95 -- Maritza Campos http://www.crfh.net/d/20020601.html
97 "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
98 them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
99 where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
101 Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of
102 entheogens; it now took very unusual circumstances to attract public
103 attention to sightings of supernatural entities. The latest miracle
104 had raised the ante on the supernatural: the Virgin Mary had
105 manifested herself to two children, a dog, and a Public Telepresence
107 -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p228
109 Junkies were all knitted together in a loose global macrame, the
110 intercontinental freemasonry of narcotics.
111 -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p257
113 America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The
114 world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic bi-polar
115 stand-up comedian. Anything but a somber and tedious nation of
116 socially responsible centurions.
117 -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p122
119 The attackers hadn't simply robbed the bank. They had carried off
120 everything portable, including the security cameras, the carpets, the
121 chairs, and the light and plumbing fixtures. The conspirators had
122 deliberately punished the bank, for reasons best known to themselves,
123 or to their unknown controllers. They had superglued doors and
124 shattered windows, severed power and communications cables, poured
125 stinking toxins into the wallspaces, and concreted all of the sinks
126 and drains. In eight minutes, sixty people had ruined the building so
127 thouroughly that it had to be condemed and later demolished.
128 -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p4
130 Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be
131 running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to
134 "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
135 victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
136 bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this
140 THERE IS NO GRAVITY THE WORLD SUCKS
141 -- Vietnam War Penquin Lighter
142 http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/clippings/vietnam_there_is_no_gravity.jpg
144 Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
147 If you have the slightest bit of intellectual integrity you cannot
148 support the government. -- anonymous
150 Debian's not really about the users or the software at all. It's a
151 large flame-generating engine that the cabal uses to heat their coffee
152 -- Andrew Suffield (#debian-devel Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:34 -0500)
154 "I was thinking seven figures," he said, "but I would have taken a
155 hundred grand. I'm not a greedy person." [All for a moldy bottle of
157 -- Sammi Hadzovic [in Andy Newman's 2003/02/14 NYT article.]
158 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/14/nyregion/14EYEB.html
160 [T]he question of whether Machines Can Think, [...] is about as
161 relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.
162 -- Edsger W. Dijkstra "The threats to computing science"
164 "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
165 We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
166 -- Jeremy S. Anderson
168 "A one-question geek test. If you get the joke, you're a geek: Seen on
169 a California license plate on a VW Beetle: 'FEATURE'..."
170 -- Joshua D. Wachs - Natural Intelligence, Inc.
172 "Ban cryptography! Yes. Let's also ban pencils, pens and paper, since
173 criminals can use them to draw plans of the joint they are casing or
174 even, god forbid, create one time pads to pass uncrackable codes to
175 each other. Ban open spaces since criminals could use them to converse
176 with each other out of earshot of the police. Let's ban flags since
177 they could be used to pass secret messages in semaphore. In fact let's
178 just ban all forms of verbal and non-verbal communication -- let's see
179 those criminals make plans now!"
181 "There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user
182 off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their
183 REAL earnings to the IRS."
186 When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I
187 realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked
191 "People selling drug paraphernalia ... are as much a part of drug
192 trafficking as silencers are a part of criminal homicide."
193 -- John Brown, DEA Chief
195 Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on
199 If you wish to strive for peace of soul, then believe; if you wish to
200 be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
201 -- Friedrich Nietzsche
203 My spelling ability, or rather the lack thereof, is one of the wonders
206 Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars
207 has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost
208 anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into
209 the serial port and load up the HP-48 VT-100 emulator.
210 -- Jeff Dege, jdege@winternet.com
212 Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and
216 CNN/Reuters: News reports have filtered out early this morning that US
217 forces have swooped on an Iraqi Primary School and detained 6th Grade
218 teacher Mohammed Al-Hazar. Sources indicate that, when arrested,
219 Al-Hazar was in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square and
220 a calculator. US President George W Bush argued that this was clear
221 and overwhelming evidence that Iraq indeed possessed weapons of maths
224 I'd never hurt another living thing.
227 -- Chris Bishop http://www.chrisbishop.com/her/archives/her69.html
229 Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going
230 If in their place we find a thing more precious growing
231 A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting
232 A child whom we are teaching, a booklet we are writing
233 -- Frederick Rükert _Wisdom of the Brahmans_
234 [Hermann Hesse _Glass Bead Game_]
236 Of course, there are cases where only a rare individual will have the
237 vision to perceive a system which governs many people's lives; a
238 system which had never before even been recognized as a system; then
239 such people often devote their lives to convincing other people that
240 the system really is there and that it aught to be exited from.
241 -- Douglas R. Hofstadter _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_
243 Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept.
244 -- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_]
246 [Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause".]
247 I think they misspelled this. Shouldn't it be "Operation Just 'Cause"?
248 -- TekPolitik http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=59669&cid=5664907
250 Grimble left his mother in the food store and went to the launderette
251 and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like colour television
253 -- Clement Freud _Grimble_
255 There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good
256 sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
259 Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
260 signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are
261 not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is
262 not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers,
263 the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a
264 way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is
265 humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
266 -- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
268 A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but
269 won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
272 A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very
273 easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over
274 expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without
275 discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the
276 syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors
277 are an abundant source of gain.
280 All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.
281 -- Gaius Julius Caesar in "The Conspiracy of Catiline" by Sallust
283 Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
286 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for
290 I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like
291 to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a
292 better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to
294 -- The Best of Will Rogers
296 If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its
297 freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it
298 values more, it will lose that, too.
299 -- W. Somerset Maugham
301 Sentenced to two years hard labor (for sodomy), Oscar Wilde stood
302 handcuffed in driving rain waiting for transport to prison. "If this
303 is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners," he remarked, "she
304 doesn't deserve to have any."
306 The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion ... refutes its thesis
307 far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's labored
308 effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all
309 the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting
310 on it--and is just as likely to succeed.
311 -- Alex Kozinski in Silveira V Lockyer
313 EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN
314 Don't be teased or humiliated. See their look of surprise when you
315 step right up to a urinal and use it with a smile. Get Dr. Mary Evers'
316 EQUAL-NOW Adapter (pat. appld. for) -- purse size, fool proof,
317 sanitary -- comes in nine lovely, feminine, psychadelic patterns --
318 requires no fitting, no prescriptions.
319 -- Robert A Heinlein _I Will Fear No Evil_ p470.
321 It has always been Debian's philosophy in the past to stick to what
322 makes sense, regardless of what crack the rest of the universe is
324 -- Andrew Suffield in 20030403211305.GD29698@doc.ic.ac.uk
326 If I had a letter, sealed it in a locked vault and hid the vault
327 somewhere in New York. Then told you to read the letter, thats not
328 security, thats obscurity. If I made a letter, sealed it in a vault,
329 gave you the blueprints of the vault, the combinations of 1000 other
330 vaults, access to the best lock smiths in the world, then told you to
331 read the letter, and you still can't, thats security.
334 Q: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the
335 Experience of the Past Million Years?
337 -- Bokonon _The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon_ (Vonnegut _Cats Cradle_)
339 This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure.
340 -- James Hynes _Publish and Perish_
342 I now know how retro SCOs OSes are. Riotous, riotous stuff. How they
343 had the ya-yas to declare Linux an infant OS in need of their IP is
344 beyond me. Upcoming features? PAM. files larger than 2 gigs. NFS over
345 TCP. The 80's called, they want their features back.
346 -- Compactable Dave http://www3.sympatico.ca/dcarpeneto/sco.html
348 This message brought to you by weapons of mass destruction related
349 program activities, and the letter G.
351 Identical parts aren't.
354 Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.
357 If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
360 The solution to a problem changes the problem.
363 There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved
364 by brute strength and ignorance.
367 More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads.
368 One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness.
369 The other, to total extinction.
370 Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
373 For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing
377 The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing
378 that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot
379 possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to
381 -- Douglas Adams _Mostly Harmless_
383 <Clint> why the hell does kernel-source-2.6.3 depend on xfree86-common?
384 <infinity> It... Doesn't?
387 "For those who understand, no explanation is necessary.
388 For those who do not, none is possible."
390 Frankly, if ignoring inane opinions and noisy people and not flaming
391 them to crisp is bad behaviour, I have not yet achieved a state of
393 -- Manoj Srivastava in 87n04pzhmh.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com
395 "Because," Fee-5 explained patiently, "I was born in the fifth row.
396 Any fool would understand that, but against stupidity the very Gods
397 themselves contend in vain."
398 -- Alfred Bester _The Computer Connection_ p19
400 Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves
401 exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves
402 only the unanimity of the graveyard.
403 -- Justice Roberts in 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
405 The beauty of the DRUNKENNESS subprogram was that you could move your
406 intoxication level up and down at will, instead of being caught on a
407 relentless down escalator to bargain basement philosophy and the
409 -- Rudy von Bitter _Software_ p124
411 The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one
412 day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and
413 that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.
414 -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §11
416 [A] theory is falsifiable [(and therefore scientific) only] if the
417 class of its potential falsifiers is not empty.
418 -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21
420 I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be
421 such that it can be singled out, by means of emperical tests, in a
422 negative sense: it must be possible for an emperical scientific system
423 to be refuted by experience.
424 -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6
426 It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was, of course,
427 completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death
429 -- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p25
431 "The trouble with you, Ibid" he said, "is that you think you're the
432 biggest bloody authority on everything"
433 -- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p146
435 He was wrong. Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities, and seals them
436 neatly away so that they don't upset people. Nature, in fact, abhors a
437 lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and
438 the chuck keys for electric drills.
439 -- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p166
441 Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but
442 that's not why we do it.
445 Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you. If you don't
447 -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p240
449 Cheop's Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
450 -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p242
452 An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.
453 -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p244
455 Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
456 -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p250
458 There is no such thing as "social gambling." Either you are there to
459 cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it--or you're a sucker. If you
460 don't like this choice--don't gamble.
461 -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p250
463 Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
464 -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p251
466 In all matters of government, the correct answer is usually: "Do
468 -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p428
470 Where I sleep at night, is this important compared to what I read
471 during the day? What do you think defines me? Where I slept or what I
473 -- Thomas Van Orden of Van Orden v. Perry
475 No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free
476 [...] You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
477 -- Robert Heinlein _Revolt in 2010_ p54
479 "Facts" are the refuge of people unwilling to reassess what they hold
482 LEADERSHIP -- A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with
483 autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to
484 the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their
486 -- The HipCrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
487 (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p256-7)
489 "I'm a rational being--of a sort--rational enough, at least, to see the
490 symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the people
491 I think of as victims when my guard drops. It's at least possible I'm
492 even crazier than my fellows, whom I'm tempted to pity.
493 "There seems only one thing to do, and that's get drunk"
494 -- Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p390)
496 "You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember
498 -- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p413)
500 If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a
501 creator, why don't you find it impossible that your creator didn't
503 -- Anonymous Coward http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167556&cid=13970629
505 Information wants to be free to kill again.
506 -- Red Robot http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1372
508 NASCAR is a Yankee conspiracy to keep you all placated so the South
510 -- http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=327
512 Leukocyte... I am your father.
513 -- R. Stevens http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1546
516 They want their idiot back.
517 -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c23.html
519 S: Make me a sandwich
520 B: What? Make it yourself.
521 S: sudo make me a sandwich
523 -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c149.html
525 We cast this message into the cosmos. [...] We are trying to survive
526 our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day, having solved
527 the problems we face, to join a community of Galactic Civilizations.
528 This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill
529 in a vast and awesome universe.
530 -- Jimmy Carter on the Voyager Golden Record
532 Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they
533 have exhausted all other possibilities.
536 As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
537 instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
538 unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
539 of change in the air however slight lest we become unwitting victims
541 -- William O. Douglas
543 One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back
547 To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
551 If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
555 I'm wrong to criticize the valour of your brave men. It's important to
556 die for one's country when it means being the subject of a king who
557 wears a ruffled collar or a pleated one.
558 -- Cyrano de Bergerac
560 Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune
562 -- Michael Z. Williamson
564 A Democracy lead by politicians and political parties, fails.
566 We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die
567 together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to
568 live together we have to talk.
571 A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
572 -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
574 Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you really want to test his
575 character, give him power.
578 When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one
579 by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
580 -- Edmund Burke "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discoontents"
582 Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the
583 rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct
585 -- Mark Twain _A Horse's Tail_
587 No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this
588 does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
589 -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_
591 The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of
592 the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the
593 benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any
594 curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
595 -- Adolf Hitler _Mein Kampf_ p403
597 I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended
598 up where I needed to be.
599 -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_
601 Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what
602 it's like to be Beethoven, and Bach tells us what it's like to be the
606 PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type of bureaucratic
607 environment: one typified by interminable presentations with lots of
608 fussy little bullet-points and flashy dissolves and soundtracks masked
609 into the background, to try to convince the audience that the goon
610 behind the computer has something significant to say.
611 -- Charles Stross _The Jennifer Morgue_ p33
613 This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic
616 Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or
617 derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But
618 the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer
619 to achieve immortality by not dying.
620 -- Terry Pratchet _The Color of Magic_
622 Only one creature could have duplicated the expressions on their
623 faces, and that would be a pigeon who has heard not only that Lord
624 Nelson has got down off his column but has also been seen buying a
625 12-bore repeater and a box of cartridges.
626 -- Terry Pratchet _Mort_
628 He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said
629 that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He
630 was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little
631 begun to fascinate him -- as if he had managed to outlive himself, as
632 if he were somehow living a posthumous life.
633 -- Paul Auster _City of Glass_
635 I really wanted to talk to her.
636 I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.
637 -- Peter Watts _Blindsight_ p294
639 Everyone has to die. And in a hundred years nobody's goling to inquire
640 just how most people died. The best thing is to do it in the way that
641 strikes your fancy most.
642 -- Kenzaburō Ōe _Silent Cry_ p5
644 I learned really early the difference between knowing the name of
645 something and knowing something
646 -- Richard Feynman "What is Science" Phys. Teach. 7(6) 1969
648 Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle
649 is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to
651 -- Richard Feynman "What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific
652 Culture in Modern Society"; 1964
654 To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an
658 The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other
659 invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila
662 Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that
664 -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
666 You could say to the Universe this is not /fair/. And the Universe
667 would say: Oh it isn't? Sorry.
668 -- Terry Pratchett _Soul Music_ p357
670 G: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?
671 EB: Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and
672 scatter oneself over a wide area.
673 -- Somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4
675 Love is... a complex sequence of neurochemical reactions that makes
676 people behave like idiots. It's similar to intoxication, but the
677 hangover's even worse.
678 -- J. Jacques _Questionable Content_ #1039
679 http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1039