-With that he haled me before the wali and I statsed an artistic meal
+With that he haled me before the wali and I tasted an artistic meal
of stick, till I fell in a faint.
-- The Thousand Nights And One Night (The Tale of Ghānim Ibn Ayyūr)
[v1 p324]
+%
+ EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN
+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, psychedelic patterns --
+requires no fitting, no prescriptions.
+ -- Robert A Heinlein _I Will Fear No Evil_ p470.
+%
+She was alot like starbucks.
+IE, generic and expensive.
+ -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001376.html
+%
+Guns Don't Kill People.
+*I* Kill People.
+%
+DIE!
+ -- Maritza Campos http://www.crfh.net/d/20020601.html
+%
+"I was thinking seven figures," he said, "but I would have taken a
+hundred grand. I'm not a greedy person." [All for a moldy bottle of
+tropicana.]
+ -- Sammi Hadzovic [in Andy Newman's 2003/02/14 NYT article.]
+ http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/14/nyregion/14EYEB.html
+%
+CNN/Reuters: News reports have filtered out early this morning that US
+forces have swooped on an Iraqi Primary School and detained 6th Grade
+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 math
+instruction.
+%
+I'd never hurt another living thing.
+But if I did...
+It would be you.
+ -- Chris Bishop http://www.chrisbishop.com/her/archives/her69.html
+%
+[Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause".]
+I think they misspelled this. Shouldn't it be "Operation Just 'Cause"?
+ -- TekPolitik http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=59669&cid=5664907
+%
+Sentenced to two years hard labor (for sodomy), Oscar Wilde stood
+handcuffed in driving rain waiting for transport to prison. "If this
+is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners," he remarked, "she
+doesn't deserve to have any."
+%
+It has always been Debian's philosophy in the past to stick to what
+makes sense, regardless of what crack the rest of the universe is
+smoking.
+ -- Andrew Suffield in 20030403211305.GD29698@doc.ic.ac.uk
+%
+<Clint> why the hell does kernel-source-2.6.3 depend on xfree86-common?
+<infinity> It... Doesn't?
+<Clint> good point
+%
+"Facts" are the refuge of people unwilling to reassess what they hold
+to be "True".
+%
+If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a
+creator, why don't you find it impossible that your creator didn't
+have one either?
+ -- Anonymous Coward http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167556&cid=13970629
+%
+The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of
+the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the
+benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any
+curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation.
+ -- Adolf Hitler _Mein Kampf_ p403
+%
+Tell me something interesting about yourself.
+Lie if you have to.
+ -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php
+%
+We were at a chinese restaurant.
+He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune
+cookie.
+ -- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html
+%
+Three little words. (In order of importance.)
+ █████
+ █ ▌ ▞▀▖▌ ▌▛▀▘
+ █ ▌ ▌ ▌▝▞ ▛▀ you
+ █ ▀▀▘▝▀ ▘ ▀▀▘
+ █████ -- hugh macleod "Three Words"
+%
+N: Why should I believe that?"
+B: Because it's a fact."
+N: Fact?"
+B: F, A, C, T... fact"
+N: So you're saying that I should believe it because it's true.
+ That's your argument?
+B: It IS true.
+-- "Ploy" http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/Ploy.MPG
+%
+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."
+%
+Quite the contrary; they *love* collateral damage. If they can make
+you miserable enough, maybe you'll stop using email entirely. Once
+enough people do that, then there'll be no legitimate reason left for
+anyone to run an SMTP server, and the spam problem will be solved.
+ -- Craig Dickson in <20020909231134.GA18917@linux700.localnet>
+%
+It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong
+ -- Chris Torek
+%
+Filing a bug is probably not going to get it fixed any faster.
+ -- Anthony Towns
+%
+Build a fire for a man, an he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on
+fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
+ -- Jules Bean
+%
+Dropping non-free would set us back at least, what, 300 packages? It'd
+take MONTHS to make up the difference, and meanwhile Debian users will
+be fleeing to SLACKWARE.
+
+And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE?
+ -- Matt Zimmerman in <20021120225004.GX14809@mizar.alcor.net>
+%
+"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
+them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
+where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
+%
+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/Moveable_Type/archives/000309.html
+%
+Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be
+running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to
+repetitive music.
+%
+"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
+victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
+bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this
+subject?"
+ -- Robert Fisk
+%
+THERE IS NO GRAVITY THE WORLD SUCKS
+ -- Vietnam War Penquin Lighter
+http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/clippings/vietnam_there_is_no_gravity.jpg
+%
+Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
+ -- Robert Heinlein
+%
+If you have the slightest bit of intellectual integrity you cannot
+support the government. -- anonymous
+%
+Debian's not really about the users or the software at all. It's a
+large flame-generating engine that the cabal uses to heat their coffee
+ -- Andrew Suffield (#debian-devel Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:34 -0500)
+%
+"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
+We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
+ -- Jeremy S. Anderson
+%
+"There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user
+off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their
+REAL earnings to the IRS."
+ -- The B.O.F.H..
+%
+When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I
+realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked
+Him to forgive me.
+ -- Emo Philips.
+%
+"People selling drug paraphernalia ... are as much a part of drug
+trafficking as silencers are a part of criminal homicide."
+ -- John Brown, DEA Chief
+%
+Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and
+the Ugly).
+ -- Matt Welsh
+%
+A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but
+won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
+ -- Bill Vaughan
+%
+I now know how retro SCOs OSes are. Riotous, riotous stuff. How they
+had the ya-yas to declare Linux an infant OS in need of their IP is
+beyond me. Upcoming features? PAM. files larger than 2 gigs. NFS over
+TCP. The 80's called, they want their features back.
+ -- Compactable Dave http://www3.sympatico.ca/dcarpeneto/sco.html
+%
+This message brought to you by weapons of mass destruction related
+program activities, and the letter G.
+%
+Frankly, if ignoring inane opinions and noisy people and not flaming
+them to crisp is bad behavior, I have not yet achieved a state of
+nirvana.
+ -- Manoj Srivastava in 87n04pzhmh.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com
+%
+"For those who understand, no explanation is necessary.
+ For those who do not, none is possible."
+%
+Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but
+that's not why we do it.
+ -- Richard Feynman
+%
+"I'm a rational being--of a sort--rational enough, at least, to see the
+symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the people
+I think of as victims when my guard drops. It's at least possible I'm
+even crazier than my fellows, whom I'm tempted to pity.
+"There seems only one thing to do, and that's get drunk"
+ -- Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p390)
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