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In any series of calculations, errors tend to occur at the opposite end to the end at which you begin checking for errors.
-- Grelb's Law of Erroring...
In any slide presentation, at least one slide will be upside down or backwards, or both.
-- John Corcora...
In any structure, pick out the one piece that should not be mismarked and expect the plant to cross you up.
In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations -- it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
-- Stuart Keate...
In a Paris hotel elevator: Please leave your values at the front desk.
In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most. -- Epicuru
In a Pickwickian sense. -- Charles Dickens (1812-1870) -- Pickwick Papers, Chap. i
In a picture, the music should be heard and not seen. -- Max Steine
In a pinch, any orphan quote can be called a Chinese proverb.
-- Axiom 2, Corollary 2F -- Ralph Keyes, The Rules of misquotatio...
In a rally, staged by the Phillipine Benevolent Christian Missionaries Association of Mercy, 26 people died of food poisoning due to the unsanitary conditions of the place.
Another ten were hacked...

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