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• There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.
  -- Herman Melville (1819-1891), "Moby Dick...
• Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
  And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends....
• Y'know, the world would be a beautiful place if it certain people weren't in it. -- Radio Day
• He had heard that one is permitted a certain latitude with widows, and went in for the whole 180 degrees.
• The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
  -- Bertrand Russell...
• For thirty years a certain man went to spend every evening with Mme.
  ___. When his wife died his friends believed he would marry her, and urged him to do so....
• Laws are Certain... Justice is Not!
• walking drives n. An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky washing machines.
  Those old dinosaur parts carried terrific angular momentum...
• walking drives: n. An occasional failure mode of magnetic-disk drives back in the days when they were huge, clunky {washing machine}s.
  Those old {dinosaur} parts carried terrific angular momentum...