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• Hope is like the cork to the net, which keeps the soul from sinking in despai
  and fear is like the lead to the net, which keeps it from floating in presumption. -- Watso...
• Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
• Life is like a roller coaster, but I'm glad to be tall enough to ride.
• Dear Emily: I'm having a serious disagreement with somebody on the net.
  I tried complaints to his sysadmin, organizing mail campaigns, called for his removal from the net and phoning his employer to get him fired....
• Linux Dominates Academic Research A recent survey of colleges and high school reveals that Linux, Open Source Software, and Microsoft are favorite topics for research projects.
  Internet Censorship, a popular topic for the past two years, was supplanted by Biology of Penguins as another of this year's most popular subjects for research papers....
• By the time of the Great Renaming, net.suicide, along with net.
  umors, was mainly populated by refugees from net.bizarre, which was the first popular group ever dropped by the backbone....
• Reading USENET is like drinking from a firehose, you'll get very wet but you probably will still be thirsty.
  -- Steve Steinberg...
• Learning at some schools is like drinking from a firehose.