"Now I'll give YOU something to believe. I'm just one hundred and
one, five months and a day." "I can't believe THAT!" said Alice. "Can't
you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long
breath, and shut your eyes." Alice laughed. "There's no use trying,"
she said: "one CAN'T believe in impossible things." "I daresay you
haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age,
I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed
as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Glass"
one, five months and a day." "I can't believe THAT!" said Alice. "Can't
you?" the Queen said in a pitying tone. "Try again: draw a long
breath, and shut your eyes." Alice laughed. "There's no use trying,"
she said: "one CAN'T believe in impossible things." "I daresay you
haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age,
I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed
as many as six impossible things before breakfast."
-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Glass"
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one and one and one and one and one and one and one?"
"I don't know," said Alice.
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Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously.
Of course you don't -- till I tell you. I meant `there's... - I don't know what you mean by `glory,'" Alice said
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously.
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Yet you talk at one hundred conventions per year -... - I beg your pardon?" said Alice.
"It isn't respectable to beg," said the King.
Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking... - Seven years and six months!" Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully.
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thoughtfully.
"An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked...
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a day... - HOGAN'S HEROES DRINKING GAME --
Take a shot every time:
Sergeant Schultz says, "I knoooooowww nooooothing!"... - Toilet paper will tear on any line but the
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now I am old and foolisher...
