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• I don't like being outdoors, Smithers. For one thing, there are too many fat children.
  -- Monty Burns, "Bart After Dark...
• Are we being too literal?
• Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
• Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
• You'd better be prepared for the jump into hyperspace.
  It's unpleasantly like being drunk. What's so unpleasant about being drunk?...
• You can go wrong by being too skepical as readily as by being too trusting.
  -- Lazarus Long by Robert A Heinlei...
• Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't.
  Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening....
• Fish and Tempura vegetables being BATTERED!
• Being one man too many, Ensign Extra is booted off the Enterprise.