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In Devon, Connecticut, it is unlawful to walk backwards after sunset.
In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel.
With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first....
In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
In Greene, New York, it is illegal to eat peanuts and walk backwards on the sidewalks when a concert is on.
In Lexington, Kentucky, it's illegal to carry an ice cream cone in your pocket.
In Memphis, Tennessee, it is illegal for a woman to drive a car unless there is a man either running or walking in front of it waving a red flag to warn approaching motorists and pedestrians.
In Ohio, if you ignore an orator on Decoration day to such an extent as to publicly play croquet or pitch horseshoes within one mile of the speaker's stand, you can be fined $
25.00....
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmo...
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "Th...

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