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• Thank goodness I still live in a world of telephones, car batteries, handguns [*bang*!
  ] and many things made of zinc....
• Goodwill is achieved by many actions; it can be lost by one.
• A good name lost is seldom regained. When character is gone, all is gone, and one of the richest jewels of life is lost forever.
  -- J. Hawe...
• You may be redneck... if you've ever lost a loved one to kudzu.
• If you don't care where you are, then you aren't lost. -- Anon.
• Great acts are made up of small deeds. -- Lao Tsu
• overrun n. 1. [techspeak] Term for a frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, esp.
  in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a silo can hold only two characters and the machine takes longer than 2 msec to get to service the interrupt, at least one character will be lost....
• overrun: n. 1. [techspeak] Term for a frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, esp.
  in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a {silo} can hold only two characters and the machine takes longer than 2 msec to get to service the interrupt, at least one character will be lost....
• Between lost baggage and canceled flights, and connections made on the run, one wonders how they arrived at the phrase "getting there is half the fun.