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• Bop was based on a seventeen-note chromatic scale, which presented a problem as there are only twelve notes to an octave.
  They solved this problem by playing very rapidly. -- Roger Price...
• Why do Vulcans have pointed ears? So they can count to twelve. -- "Mad Magazine
• I can assure you that size will not be a problem. -- Worf
• If there are twelve clowns in a ring, you can jump in the middle and start reciting Shakespeare, but to the audience, you'll just be the thirteenth clown.
  -- Adam Walinsky...
• It's a probable twelve to seven...
• It's twelve feet tall with yellow eyes, and it wants to speak to you, SIR.
• When the government bureau's remedies do not match your problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy.
  -- Good's Rule for Dealing with Bureaucracie...
• When the government bureau's remedies do not match your problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy.