1 With that he haled me before the wali and I tasted an artistic meal
2 of stick, till I fell in a faint.
3 -- The Thousand Nights And One Night (The Tale of Ghānim Ibn Ayyūr)
7 Don't be teased or humiliated. See their look of surprise when you
8 step right up to a urinal and use it with a smile. Get Dr. Mary Evers'
9 EQUAL-NOW Adapter (pat. appld. for) -- purse size, fool proof,
10 sanitary -- comes in nine lovely, feminine, psychedelic patterns --
11 requires no fitting, no prescriptions.
12 -- Robert A Heinlein _I Will Fear No Evil_ p470.
14 She was alot like starbucks.
15 IE, generic and expensive.
16 -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001376.html
18 Guns Don't Kill People.
22 -- Maritza Campos http://www.crfh.net/d/20020601.html
24 "I was thinking seven figures," he said, "but I would have taken a
25 hundred grand. I'm not a greedy person." [All for a moldy bottle of
27 -- Sammi Hadzovic [in Andy Newman's 2003/02/14 NYT article.]
28 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/14/nyregion/14EYEB.html
30 CNN/Reuters: News reports have filtered out early this morning that US
31 forces have swooped on an Iraqi Primary School and detained 6th Grade
32 teacher Mohammed Al-Hazar. Sources indicate that, when arrested,
33 Al-Hazar was in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square and
34 a calculator. US President George W Bush argued that this was clear
35 and overwhelming evidence that Iraq indeed possessed weapons of math
38 I'd never hurt another living thing.
41 -- Chris Bishop http://www.chrisbishop.com/her/archives/her69.html
43 [Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause".]
44 I think they misspelled this. Shouldn't it be "Operation Just 'Cause"?
45 -- TekPolitik http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=59669&cid=5664907
47 Sentenced to two years hard labor (for sodomy), Oscar Wilde stood
48 handcuffed in driving rain waiting for transport to prison. "If this
49 is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners," he remarked, "she
50 doesn't deserve to have any."
52 It has always been Debian's philosophy in the past to stick to what
53 makes sense, regardless of what crack the rest of the universe is
55 -- Andrew Suffield in 20030403211305.GD29698@doc.ic.ac.uk
57 <Clint> why the hell does kernel-source-2.6.3 depend on xfree86-common?
58 <infinity> It... Doesn't?
61 "Facts" are the refuge of people unwilling to reassess what they hold
64 If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a
65 creator, why don't you find it impossible that your creator didn't
67 -- Anonymous Coward http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167556&cid=13970629
69 The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of
70 the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the
71 benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any
72 curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
73 -- Adolf Hitler _Mein Kampf_ p403
75 Tell me something interesting about yourself.
77 -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php
79 We were at a chinese restaurant.
80 He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune
82 -- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html
84 Three little words. (In order of importance.)
89 █████ -- hugh macleod "Three Words"
91 N: Why should I believe that?"
92 B: Because it's a fact."
94 B: F, A, C, T... fact"
95 N: So you're saying that I should believe it because it's true.
98 -- "Ploy" http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/Ploy.MPG
100 UF: What's your favorite coffee blend?
101 PD: Dark Crude with heavy water. You are understandink? "If geiger
102 counter does not click, the coffee, she is just not thick."
104 Quite the contrary; they *love* collateral damage. If they can make
105 you miserable enough, maybe you'll stop using email entirely. Once
106 enough people do that, then there'll be no legitimate reason left for
107 anyone to run an SMTP server, and the spam problem will be solved.
108 -- Craig Dickson in <20020909231134.GA18917@linux700.localnet>
110 It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong
113 Filing a bug is probably not going to get it fixed any faster.
116 Build a fire for a man, an he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on
117 fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
120 Dropping non-free would set us back at least, what, 300 packages? It'd
121 take MONTHS to make up the difference, and meanwhile Debian users will
122 be fleeing to SLACKWARE.
124 And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE?
125 -- Matt Zimmerman in <20021120225004.GX14809@mizar.alcor.net>
127 "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
128 them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
129 where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
131 You could say she lived on the edge... Well, maybe not exactly on the edge,
132 just close enough to watch other people fall off.
133 -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000309.html
135 Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be
136 running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to
139 "It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
140 victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
141 bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this
145 THERE IS NO GRAVITY THE WORLD SUCKS
146 -- Vietnam War Penquin Lighter
147 http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/clippings/vietnam_there_is_no_gravity.jpg
149 Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
152 If you have the slightest bit of intellectual integrity you cannot
153 support the government. -- anonymous
155 Debian's not really about the users or the software at all. It's a
156 large flame-generating engine that the cabal uses to heat their coffee
157 -- Andrew Suffield (#debian-devel Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:34 -0500)
159 "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
160 We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
161 -- Jeremy S. Anderson
163 "There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user
164 off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their
165 REAL earnings to the IRS."
168 When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I
169 realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked
173 "People selling drug paraphernalia ... are as much a part of drug
174 trafficking as silencers are a part of criminal homicide."
175 -- John Brown, DEA Chief
177 Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and
181 A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but
182 won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
185 I now know how retro SCOs OSes are. Riotous, riotous stuff. How they
186 had the ya-yas to declare Linux an infant OS in need of their IP is
187 beyond me. Upcoming features? PAM. files larger than 2 gigs. NFS over
188 TCP. The 80's called, they want their features back.
189 -- Compactable Dave http://www3.sympatico.ca/dcarpeneto/sco.html
191 This message brought to you by weapons of mass destruction related
192 program activities, and the letter G.
194 Frankly, if ignoring inane opinions and noisy people and not flaming
195 them to crisp is bad behavior, I have not yet achieved a state of
197 -- Manoj Srivastava in 87n04pzhmh.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com
199 "For those who understand, no explanation is necessary.
200 For those who do not, none is possible."
202 Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but
203 that's not why we do it.
206 "I'm a rational being--of a sort--rational enough, at least, to see the
207 symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the people
208 I think of as victims when my guard drops. It's at least possible I'm
209 even crazier than my fellows, whom I'm tempted to pity.
210 "There seems only one thing to do, and that's get drunk"
211 -- Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p390)