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• LISP: To call a spade a thpade.
• These Macedonians," said he, "are a rude and clownish people, that call a spade a spade.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Philip...
• I 'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade.
  -- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) -- Polite Conversation, Dialogue ii...
• We live, not as we wish to, but as we can. -- Menander, 292 BC
• OLD FARMERS never die, they just spade away.
• Let the world slide, A fig for care, and a fig for woe!
  If I can't pay, why I can owe, And death makes equal the high and low....
• Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches/sec. -- J. Ha
• No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig.
  If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time....