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The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of us who are fortunate enough never to have been one -- like watching Charlie Chaplin trying to cook a shoe.
The debate rages on: Is PL/I Bachtrian or Dromedary?
The devil finds work for idle circuits to do.
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity?
If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune....
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
-- Robert Heinlei...
The distinction between Jewish and goyish can be quite subtle, as the following quote from Lenny Bruce illustrate
"I'm Jewish. Count Basie's Jewish. Ray Charles is Jewish. Eddie Cantor's goyish....
The District of Columbia has a law forbidding you to exert pressure on a balloon and thereby cause a whistling sound on the streets.
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterso...
The duck hunter trained his retriever to walk on water.
Eager to show off this amazing accomplishment, he asked a friend to go along on his next hunting trip....

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