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The faster I go, the behinder I get. -- Lewis Carroll
The Fastest Defeat In Chess The big name for us in the world of chess is Gibaud, a French chess master.
In Paris during 1924 he was beaten after only four moves by a Monsieur Lazard. Happily fo...
The father, passing through his son's college town late one evening on a business trip, thought he would pay his boy a suprise visit.
Arriving at the lad's fraternity house, dad rapped loudly on the...
The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city.
Colleges may be to blame. E...
The fellow sat down at a bar, ordered a drink and asked the bartender if he wanted to hear a dumb-jock joke.
"Hey, buddy," the bartender replied, "you see those two guys next to you? They used to be...
The feminist agenda," Pat Robertson observed in a recent letter to his supporters, "is not about equal rights for women.
It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages wome...
The Fifth Rule: You have taken yourself too seriously.
The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions.
-- Maurice Chapelain, "Main courante...
The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.
The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time, the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time.

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