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She was alot like starbucks.
IE, generic and expensive.
- -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch3.htm
+ -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001376.html
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Tell me something interesting about yourself.
Lie if you have to.
We were at a chinese resturant.
He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune
cookie.
- -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch31.php
+ -- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html
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-Three little words. (In decending order of importance.)
+Three little words. (In descending order of importance.)
I
love
you
B: It IS true.
-- "Ploy" http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/Ploy.MPG
%
-UF: What's your favourite coffee blend?
+UF: What's your favorite coffee blend?
PD: Dark Crude with heavy water. You are understandink? "If geiger
counter does not click, the coffee, she is just not thick."
%
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You could say she lived on the edge... Well, maybe not exactly on the edge,
just close enough to watch other people fall off.
- -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch8.htm
+ -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000309.html
%
Guns Don't Kill People.
*I* Kill People.
shattered windows, severed power and communications cables, poured
stinking toxins into the wallspaces, and concreted all of the sinks
and drains. In eight minutes, sixty people had ruined the building so
-thouroughly that it had to be condemed and later demolished.
+thoroughly that it had to be condemned and later demolished.
-- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p4
%
Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be
-- The B.O.F.H..
%
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I
-realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked
+realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked
Him to forgive me.
-- Emo Philips.
%
teacher Mohammed Al-Hazar. Sources indicate that, when arrested,
Al-Hazar was in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square and
a calculator. US President George W Bush argued that this was clear
-and overwhelming evidence that Iraq indeed possessed weapons of maths
+and overwhelming evidence that Iraq indeed possessed weapons of math
instruction.
%
I'd never hurt another living thing.
-- TekPolitik http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=59669&cid=5664907
%
Grimble left his mother in the food store and went to the launderette
-and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like colour television
+and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like color television
only with less plot.
-- Clement Freud _Grimble_
%
Don't be teased or humiliated. See their look of surprise when you
step right up to a urinal and use it with a smile. Get Dr. Mary Evers'
EQUAL-NOW Adapter (pat. appld. for) -- purse size, fool proof,
-sanitary -- comes in nine lovely, feminine, psychadelic patterns --
+sanitary -- comes in nine lovely, feminine, psychedelic patterns --
requires no fitting, no prescriptions.
-- Robert A Heinlein _I Will Fear No Evil_ p470.
%
something.
-- Steven Wright
%
-I'm wrong to criticize the valour of your brave men. It's important to
+I'm wrong to criticize the valor of your brave men. It's important to
die for one's country when it means being the subject of a king who
wears a ruffled collar or a pleated one.
-- Cyrano de Bergerac
%
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one
by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- -- Edmund Burke "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discoontents"
+ -- Edmund Burke "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents"
%
Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the
rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct
I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.
-- Peter Watts _Blindsight_ p294
%
-Everyone has to die. And in a hundred years nobody's goling to inquire
+Everyone has to die. And in a hundred years nobody's going to inquire
just how most people died. The best thing is to do it in the way that
strikes your fancy most.
-- Kenzaburō Ōe _Silent Cry_ p5
The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other
invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila
-- Mitch Ratcliffe
-
+%
+Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that
+you do it.
+ -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
+%
+You could say to the Universe this is not /fair/. And the Universe
+would say: Oh it isn't? Sorry.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Soul Music_ p357
+%
+G: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?
+EB: Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and
+scatter oneself over a wide area.
+ -- Somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4
+%
+Love is... a complex sequence of neurochemical reactions that makes
+people behave like idiots. It's similar to intoxication, but the
+hangover's even worse.
+ -- J. Jacques _Questionable Content_ #1039
+ http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1039
+%
+Who is thinking this?
+I am.
+ -- Greg Egan _Diaspora_ p38
+%
+I have no use for "before and after" pictures.
+I can't remember starting, and I'm never done.
+ -- a softer world #221
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=221
+%
+Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue
+to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your
+flowcharts; they'll be obvious.
+ -- Fredrick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man Month
+%
+Religion is religion, however you wrap it, and like Quell says, a
+preoccupation with the next world clearly signals an inability to cope
+credibly with this one.
+ -- Richard K. Morgan "Broken Angels" p65
+%
+After the first battle of Sto Lat, I formulated a policy which has
+stood me in good stead in other battles. It is this: if an enemy has
+an impregnable stronghold, see he stays there.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Jingo_ p265
+%
+Vimes hated and despised the privileges of rank, but they had this to
+be said for them: At least they meant that you could hate and despise
+them in comfort.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _The Fifth Elephant_ p111
+%
+J.W. Grant: "Bastard!"
+Rico: "Yes, Sir. In my case, an accident of birth. But you, Sir,
+you're a self-made man."
+ -- Henry "Rico" Fardan in "The Professionals"
+%
+"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in
+a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from
+asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my
+mother told me when I was young."
+"Why, what did she tell you?"
+"I don't know, I didn't listen."
+ –- Douglas Adams _The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy_
+%
+It was a very familiar voice. [...] It was a voice you could have used
+to open a bottle of whine.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _The Last Continent_ p270
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