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• Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive
  difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind- boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it....
• Quote #296 [about the usenet as elephant horde metaphor] It was Gene Spafford.
  I have it (he posted it himself) as: In closing, I'd like to repost my 3 axioms of Usenet....
• When traveling with a herd of elephants, don't be the first to lie down and rest.
  -- McEwan's Rule of Relative Importance...
• McEwan's Rule of Relative Importance: When traveling with a herd of elephants, don't be the first to lie down and rest.
• When one looks at something awe-inspiring, The scientist asks 'How does it work?
  ' The philosopher asks 'Why does it work?' The manager asks 'Will it work for us?...
• Expect the worst, it's the least you can do.