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author | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2005-12-20 10:07:56 +0000 |
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committer | Jason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2005-12-20 10:07:56 +0000 |
commit | 1db9a0b4b1d19fa2db986d7be13de0b5e1da93aa (patch) | |
tree | eaed82e6c0a41b0bff1c0ad133053b7d0771b640 /games | |
parent | 88b50646f17faf0208d0accbd434a7aecd92dcc3 (diff) |
format according to Notes;
diff from michael knudsen;
Diffstat (limited to 'games')
-rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 | 547 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o | 48 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | games/fortune/datfiles/limerick | 6 |
4 files changed, 303 insertions, 314 deletions
diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes index 312debf25fe..c14f07075f6 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes @@ -3119,7 +3119,7 @@ Attitude toward law is that the will of the majority shall regulate, whether it is based upon deliberation or governed by passion, prejudice, and impulse, without restraint or regard to consequences. Result is demagogism, license, agitation, discontent, anarchy. - -- U. S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932), + -- U.S. Army Training Manual No. 2000-25 (1928-1932), since withdrawn. % Demographic polls show that you have lost credibility across the @@ -7380,7 +7380,7 @@ Ink, n.: water, chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" - [alternately attributed to H.L. Mencken] + [alternately attributed to H. L. Mencken] % Innovation is hard to schedule. -- Dan Fylstra @@ -7974,7 +7974,7 @@ Katz' Law: Keep America beautiful. Swallow your beer cans. % Keep Cool, but Don't Freeze - - Hellman's Mayonnaise + -- Hellman's Mayonnaise % Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis. % @@ -8518,7 +8518,7 @@ might be taught to talk. % Maier's Law: If the facts don't conform to the theory, they must be disposed of. - -- N.R. Maier, "American Psychologist", March 1960 + -- N. R. Maier, "American Psychologist", March 1960 Corollaries: (1) The bigger the theory, the better. @@ -11884,7 +11884,7 @@ Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether. - -- H.S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" + -- H. S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" % T: One big monster, he called TROLL. He don't rock, and he don't roll; @@ -12141,7 +12141,7 @@ wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." - -- T.H. White, "The Once and Future King" + -- T. H. White, "The Once and Future King" % The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match. @@ -12648,7 +12648,7 @@ The lawgiver, of all beings, most owes the law allegiance. He of all men should behave as though the law compelled him. But it is the universal weakness of mankind that what we are given to administer we presently imagine we own. - -- H.G. Wells + -- H. G. Wells % THE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #10: SIMPLE @@ -13437,7 +13437,7 @@ annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. % The United States also has its native Fascists who say that they are "100 percent American"... - -- U. S. Army (1945) + -- U.S. Army (1945) % The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to everybody and still nobody likes him. diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 index 1dbe27a04b1..ab5d5e234f3 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2 @@ -1558,7 +1558,7 @@ but Exxon has decided they smelled bad. message about facing challengehood tomorrow-wise. I dozed off during this, but the import seems to be that dinosaurs don't have anything to do with energy policy and neither do you." - -- P.J. O'Rourke, "Holidays in Hell" + -- P. J. O'Rourke, "Holidays in Hell" % For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the @@ -1919,7 +1919,7 @@ operation - namely, to remove those irritant bodies." "And then he will be sane?" "Then he will be perfectly sane, and a quite admirable citizen." "Thank heaven for science!" said old Yacob. - -- H.G. Wells, "The Country of the Blind" + -- H. G. Wells, "The Country of the Blind" % I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradictions to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my own. I even forbade myself the use @@ -2318,7 +2318,7 @@ cost a fortune to maintain and is still in danger of collapsing. really needed in the first place. I expect every installation has its own pet software which is analogous to the above. - -- K.E. Iverson, on the Leaning Tower of Pisa + -- K. E. Iverson, on the Leaning Tower of Pisa % It was the next morning that the armies of Twodor marched east laden with long lances, sharp swords, and death-dealing hangovers. The @@ -2517,7 +2517,7 @@ stability: the static world order with planets circling about a central earth, priests subordinate to the Pope and serfs to their lord. But the Church soon made its peace with Galileo's cosmology. They had no choice; the earth really does revolve about the sun. - -- S.J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man" + -- S. J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man" % "My mother," said the sweet young steno, "says there are some things a girl should not do before twenty." @@ -3017,7 +3017,7 @@ maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads into the pineal gland... On the other hand, it might be something as simple & basically perverse as whatever instinct it is that causes a jackrabbit to wait until the last possible second to dart across the road in front of a speeding car. - -- H.S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail" + -- H. S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail" % "Richard, in being so fierce toward my vampire, you were doing what you wanted to do, even though you thought it was going to hurt @@ -3049,7 +3049,7 @@ differential algebra, Ritt, committed suicide in the early 1950's, largely, it is claimed, because few paid attention to his work. Probably he would have received more attention had he obtained the algorithm as well. - -- Joel Moses, "Algorithms and Complexity", ed. J.F. Traub + -- Joel Moses, "Algorithms and Complexity", ed. J. F. Traub % Robert Kennedy's 1964 Senatorial campaign planners told him that their intention was to present him to the television viewers as a sincere, @@ -3302,7 +3302,7 @@ it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." - -- T.H. White, "The Once and Future King" + -- T. H. White, "The Once and Future King" % The big problem with pornography is defining it. You can't just say it's pictures of people naked. For example, you have these primitive @@ -5465,7 +5465,7 @@ A boss with no humor is like a job that's no fun. % A box without hinges, key, or lid, Yet golden treasure inside is hid. - -- J.R. Tolkien + -- J. R. R. Tolkien % A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down. @@ -5848,7 +5848,7 @@ A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. A fake fortuneteller can be tolerated. But an authentic soothsayer should be shot on sight. Cassandra did not get half the kicking around she deserved. - -- R.A. Heinlein + -- R. A. Heinlein % A farmer is a man outstanding in his field. % @@ -6316,7 +6316,7 @@ A list is only as strong as its weakest link. A little experience often upsets a lot of theory. % A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation. - -- C.E. Ayres + -- C. E. Ayres % A little kid went up to Santa and asked him, "Santa, you know when I'm bad right?" And Santa says, "Yes, I do." The little kid then asks, "And you @@ -6754,7 +6754,7 @@ A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore. % A Nixon [is preferable to] a Dean Rusk -- who will be passionately wrong with a high sense of consistency. - -- J.K. Galbraith + -- J. K. Galbraith % A non-vegetarian anti-abortionist is a contradiction in terms. -- Phyllis Schlafly @@ -6790,7 +6790,7 @@ Answering his FAQ quickly, With thought and sarcasm. % A pain in the ass of major dimensions. - -- C.A. Desoer, on the solution of non-linear circuits + -- C. A. Desoer, on the solution of non-linear circuits % A Parable of Modern Research: @@ -7106,7 +7106,7 @@ of this necessary reorganization of our lives. It is difficult to believe that this state of mind can be produced by the recognition of such facts as that unsupported stones always fall to the ground. - -- J.W.N. Sullivan + -- J. W. N. Sullivan % A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those that are @@ -7228,7 +7228,7 @@ A stunning blonde, but probably all bean dip above the eyebrows. % A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author. - -- S.C. Johnson + -- S. C. Johnson % A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. @@ -7245,7 +7245,7 @@ The Metamorphosis LITE(tm) A man turns into a bug and his family gets annoyed. Lord of the Rings LITE(tm) - -- by J.R.R. Tolkien + -- by J. R. R. Tolkien Some guys take a long vacation to throw a ring into a volcano. @@ -7454,7 +7454,7 @@ what he writes fiction. -- William Faulkner % A yawn is a silent shout. - -- G.K. Chesterton + -- G. K. Chesterton % A young girl once committed suicide because her mother refused her a new bonnet. Coroner's verdict: "Death from excessive spunk." @@ -7596,9 +7596,9 @@ evaluated using a critical flicker frequency (CFF) test. Results of the CFF test indicated that tight neckwear significantly decreased the visual performance of the subjects and that visual performance did not improve immediately when tight neckwear was removed. - -- Langan, L.M. and Watkins, S.M. "Pressure of Menswear on the - Neck in Relation to Visual Performance." Human Factors 29, - #1 (Feb. 1987), pp. 67-71. + -- Langan, L. M. and Watkins, S. M. "Pressure of Menswear on + the Neck in Relation to Visual Performance." Human Factors + 29, #1 (Feb. 1987), pp. 67-71. % Academics care, that's who. % @@ -8221,7 +8221,7 @@ From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king. - -- J.R.R. Tolkien + -- J. R. R. Tolkien % All the evidence concerning the universe has not yet been collected, so there's still hope. @@ -8304,7 +8304,7 @@ All's well that ends. % Almost anything derogatory you could say about today's software design would be accurate. - -- K.E. Iverson + -- K. E. Iverson % ALONE: In bad company. @@ -8457,7 +8457,7 @@ An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. -- Dylan Thomas % An algorithm must be seen to be believed. - -- D.E. Knuth + -- D. E. Knuth % An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie and intrigue for the benefit of his country. @@ -8530,7 +8530,7 @@ with a vegetable love which would certainly not content me. Why, what a very pure young man this pure young man must be!" - -- W.S. Gilbert, "Patience" + -- W. S. Gilbert, "Patience" [The subject of the humour is, of course, Oscar Wilde] % An avocado-tone refrigerator would look good on your resume. @@ -8859,7 +8859,7 @@ black males are primitive because the distance between their navel and penis remains small (relative to body height) throughout life, while white children begin with a small separation but increase it during growth -- the rising belly button as a mark of progress. - -- S.J. Gould, "Racism and Recapitulation" + -- S. J. Gould, "Racism and Recapitulation" % And the silence came surging softly backwards When the plunging hooves were gone... @@ -9025,7 +9025,7 @@ requires a heroism which is transcendent. -- Henry Ward Beecher % Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad. - -- Leo Rosten, on W.C. Fields + -- Leo Rosten, on W. C. Fields % Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall @@ -9040,7 +9040,7 @@ can at least make a decision." "Somewhere," he grumphed, "there must be a naive, opportunistic young whelp with a masochistic streak who would like to run the most up-and-down bureaucracy in the history of mankind." - -- R.L. Forward, "Flight of the Dragonfly" + -- R. L. Forward, "Flight of the Dragonfly" % Any president should have the right to shoot at least two people a year without explanation. @@ -9069,7 +9069,7 @@ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. % Anybody has a right to evade taxes if he can get away with it. No citizen has a moral obligation to assist in maintaining his government. - -- J.P. Morgan + -- J. P. Morgan % Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organising and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office. @@ -9143,7 +9143,7 @@ over the cliff -- I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye. I know it; I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy. - -- J.D. Salinger, "Catcher in the Rye" + -- J. D. Salinger, "Catcher in the Rye" % Apathy Club meeting this Friday. If you want to come, you're not invited. @@ -9345,7 +9345,7 @@ ARITHMETIC: Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union. - -- P.J. O'Rourke + -- P. J. O'Rourke % Armor's Axiom: Virtue is the failure to achieve vice. @@ -9442,7 +9442,7 @@ We may live with, but cannot live without 'em. % As Gen. de Gaulle occasionally acknowledges America to be the daughter of Europe, so I am pleased to come to Yale, the daughter of Harvard. - -- J.F. Kennedy + -- J. F. Kennedy % As goatherd learns his trade by goat, so writer learns his trade by wrote. % @@ -9656,7 +9656,7 @@ will pay only the station-to-station rate. -- Howard Kandel % Ask not what's inside your head, but what your head's inside of. - -- J.J. Gibson + -- J. J. Gibson % Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. -- John Stuart Mill @@ -9718,7 +9718,7 @@ At first sight, the idea of any rules or principles being superimposed on the creative mind seems more likely to hinder than to help, but this is quite untrue in practice. Disciplined thinking focuses inspiration rather than blinkers it. - -- G.L. Glegg, "The Design of Design" + -- G. L. Glegg, "The Design of Design" % At last I've found the girl of my dreams. Last night she said to me, "Once more, Strange, and this time *I'll* be Donnie and *you* be Marie. @@ -9733,7 +9733,7 @@ after fact and reason. % At social gatherings, I would amuse everyone by standing uponst the coffee table and striking meself repeatedly upon the head with a brick. - -- H.R. Gumby + -- H. R. Gumby % At the end of your life there'll be a good rest, and no further activities are scheduled. @@ -9796,7 +9796,7 @@ AUCTION: A gyp off the old block. % Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity. - -- G.J. Danton + -- G. J. Danton % audiophile, n: Someone who listens to the equipment instead of the music. @@ -10046,7 +10046,7 @@ Because I do not hope to survive Injustice from the Palace, death from the air, Because I do, only do, I continue... - -- T.S. Pynchon + -- T. S. Pynchon % Because the wine remembers. % @@ -10264,14 +10264,14 @@ Better tried by twelve than carried by six. Between grand theft and a legal fee, there only stands a law degree. % Between infinite and short there is a big difference. - -- G.H. Gonnet + -- G. H. Gonnet % Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow - -- T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Man" + -- T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Man" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to system service dispatching.] @@ -10422,14 +10422,14 @@ to say it. -- James Russell Lowell % Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed. - -- W.C. Bennett + -- W. C. Bennett % Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed. -- Alexander Pope % Blessed is he who has reached the point of no return and knows it, for he shall enjoy living. - -- W.C. Bennett + -- W. C. Bennett % Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. @@ -10461,7 +10461,7 @@ seemed to come from Texas. -- Ian Fleming, "Casino Royale" % Bondage maybe, discipline never! - -- T.K. + -- T. K. % Bones: "The man's DEAD, Jim!" % @@ -10779,7 +10779,7 @@ By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail. % By long-standing tradition, I take this opportunity to savage other designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun. - -- P.J. Plauger, "Computer Language", 1988, April + -- P. J. Plauger, "Computer Language", 1988, April Fool's column. % By nature, men are nearly alike; @@ -11127,7 +11127,7 @@ Christ died for our sins, so let's not disappoint Him. % Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried. - -- G.K. Chesterton + -- G. K. Chesterton % Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. -- George Bernard Shaw @@ -11195,7 +11195,7 @@ the dirt doesn't get any worse. -- Quentin Crisp % Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely. - -- P.J. O'Rourke + -- P. J. O'Rourke % CLEVELAND: Where their last tornado did six @@ -11293,7 +11293,7 @@ COBOL: Completely Over and Beyond reason Or Logic. % COBOL is for morons. - -- E.W. Dijkstra + -- E. W. Dijkstra % COBOL programmers are down in the dumps. % @@ -11478,7 +11478,7 @@ characteristics of *software*, and not with hardware or management. % COMPASS [for the CDC-6000 series] is the sort of assembler one expects from a corporation whose president codes in octal. - -- J.N. Gray + -- J. N. Gray % Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. @@ -11939,7 +11939,7 @@ Success is also easy to handle: % Dealing with the problem of pure staff accumulation, all our researches ... point to an average increase of 5.75% per year. - -- C.N. Parkinson + -- C. N. Parkinson % Dear Emily: How can I choose what groups to post in? @@ -12126,7 +12126,7 @@ places. They are a disgusting Americanism, and can only result in the farmers being forced to grow smaller potatoes, which in turn will cause massive un- employment in the already severely depressed agricultural industry. Yours faithfully, - Capt. Quinton D'Arcy, J.P. + Capt. Quinton D'Arcy, J. P. Sevenoaks -- Letters To The Editor, The Times of London % @@ -12273,7 +12273,7 @@ Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them. % Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. - -- H.L. Mencken, "Little Book in C major", 1916 + -- H. L. Mencken, "Little Book in C major", 1916 % Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. @@ -12316,7 +12316,7 @@ Department chairmen never die, they just lose their faculties. % Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember, it didn't help the rabbit. - -- R.E. Shay + -- R. E. Shay % Deprive a mirror of its silver and even the Czar won't see his face. % @@ -12412,7 +12412,7 @@ should have in your .profile or .cshrc. file. Did you know that clones never use mirrors? % Did you know that for the price of a 280-Z you can buy two Z-80's? - -- P.J. Plauger + -- P. J. Plauger % Did you know the University of Iowa closed down after someone stole the book? @@ -12634,7 +12634,7 @@ think, for every one who does, and these people hate the thinkers like poison. Even if some thinkers are fanciful, it is wrong to make fun of them for it. Better to think about cucumbers even, than not to think at all. - -- T.H. White + -- T. H. White % Do you know Montana? % @@ -12757,7 +12757,7 @@ Don't do the crime, if you can't do the time. % Don't do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % Don't drink when you drive -- you might hit a bump and spill it. % @@ -12803,7 +12803,7 @@ Don't I know you? Don't interfere with the stranger's style. % Don't just eat a hamburger; eat the HELL out of it. - -- J.R. "Bob" Dobbs + -- J. R. "Bob" Dobbs % Don't kid yourself. Little is relevant, and nothing lasts forever. % @@ -13245,7 +13245,7 @@ Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine. -- Irwin Edman % Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. - -- B.F. Skinner + -- B. F. Skinner % Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters @@ -13361,7 +13361,7 @@ Management: "When will this work?" Liberal Arts: "Do you want fries with that?" % English literature's performing flea. - -- Sean O'Casey on P.G. Wodehouse + -- Sean O'Casey on P. G. Wodehouse % Engram, n: 1. The physical manifestation of human memory -- "the engram." @@ -13863,7 +13863,7 @@ Well look again. % Evil is that which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. - -- H.L. Mencken + -- H. L. Mencken % Evolution is a million line computer program falling into place by accident. @@ -13879,7 +13879,7 @@ respect to theories about how the process operates. % Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for even the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. - -- C.C. Colton + -- C. C. Colton % Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. @@ -14093,7 +14093,7 @@ FEAR: What you feel when you see a U-Haul with Texas license plates. % Fear and loathing, my man, fear and loathing. - -- H.S. Thompson + -- H. S. Thompson % Fear is the greatest salesman. -- Robert Klein @@ -14407,7 +14407,7 @@ For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill. % For every human problem, there is a neat, plain solution -- and it is always wrong. - -- H.L. Mencken + -- H. L. Mencken % For example, if \thinmskip = 3mu, this makes \thickmskip = 6mu. But if you also want to use \skip12 for horizontal glue, whether in math mode or @@ -14491,7 +14491,7 @@ FOR SALE: For the fashion of Minas Tirith was such that it was built on seven levels, each delved into a hill, and about each was set a wall, and in each wall was a gate. - -- J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Return of the King" + -- J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Return of the King" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to system overview.] @@ -14593,7 +14593,7 @@ Forgive and forget. % Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee And I'll forgive Thy great big one on me. @@ -14615,7 +14615,7 @@ FORTRAN is for pipe stress freaks and crystallography weenies. % FORTRAN is not a flower but a weed -- it is hardy, occasionally blooms, and grows in every computer. - -- A.J. Perlis + -- A. J. Perlis % FORTRAN is the language of Powerful Computers. -- Steven Feiner @@ -14632,7 +14632,7 @@ FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use. - -- E.W. Dijkstra + -- E. W. Dijkstra % [FORTRAN] will persist for some time -- probably for at least the next decade. @@ -15520,7 +15520,7 @@ From the moment I picked your book up until I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. -- Groucho Marx % -F.S. Fitzgerald to Hemingway: +F. S. Fitzgerald to Hemingway: "Ernest, the rich are different from us." Hemingway: "Yes. They have more money." @@ -15571,7 +15571,7 @@ GENEALOGY: -- Ambrose Bierce % General notions are generally wrong. - -- Lady M.W. Montagu + -- Lady M. W. Montagu % Generally speaking, the Way of the warrior is resolute acceptance of death. -- Miyamoto Musashi, 1645 @@ -15778,7 +15778,7 @@ off doing today will get done by itself. % Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. - -- P.J. O'Rourke + -- P. J. O'Rourke % GLEEMITES: Petrified deposits of toothpaste found in sinks. @@ -15814,7 +15814,7 @@ Go ahead, make my day. -- Harry Callahan % Go away, I'm all right. - -- H.G. Wells' last words. + -- H. G. Wells' last words. % Go away! Stop bothering me with all your "compute this ... compute that"! I'm taking a VAX-NAP. @@ -15824,13 +15824,13 @@ logout Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. % Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no. - -- J.R.R. Tolkien + -- J. R. R. Tolkien % Go on writing plays, my boy. One of these days a London producer will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy. - -- G.B. Shaw to William Douglas Home + -- G. B. Shaw to William Douglas Home % Go out and tell a lie that will make the whole family proud of you. -- Cadmus, to Pentheus, in "The Bacchae" by Euripides @@ -16048,7 +16048,7 @@ Good night to spend with family, but avoid arguments with your mate's new lover. % Good salesmen and good repairmen will never go hungry. - -- R.E. Schenk + -- R. E. Schenk % Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths good theatre. -- Gail Godwin @@ -16547,7 +16547,7 @@ appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene and low down, and its salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment. - -- H.L. Mencken, "A Carnival of Buncombe" + -- H. L. Mencken, "A Carnival of Buncombe" % Haste makes waste. -- John Heywood @@ -16580,7 +16580,7 @@ somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom. -- Mark Twain % Have a taco. - -- P.S. Beagle + -- P. S. Beagle % Have at you! % @@ -16656,7 +16656,7 @@ then takes off for warmer weather where she eats and eats and eats. For two months, the father stands stiff, without food, blind in the 24-hour dark, balancing the egg on his feet. After the little penguin is hatched, the mother sees fit to come home. - -- L.M. Boyd, "Austin American-Statesman" + -- L. M. Boyd, "Austin American-Statesman" % Having a wonderful wine, wish you were beer. % @@ -16807,7 +16807,7 @@ And helps you with your girdle when your hips stick. -- O. Nash, on the perfect husband % He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. - -- J.R.R. Tolkien + -- J. R. R. Tolkien % He that bringeth a present, findeth the door open. -- Scottish proverb. @@ -16980,7 +16980,7 @@ He who walks on burning coals is sure to get burned. -- Sinbad % He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. - -- M.C. Escher + -- M. C. Escher % He who writes with no misspelled words has prevented a first suspicion on the limits of his scholarship or, in the social world, of his general @@ -17324,7 +17324,7 @@ Some of the monks doubted the orthodoxy of this prayer technique... His heart was yours from the first moment that you met. % His ideas of first-aid stopped short of squirting soda water. - -- P.G. Wodehouse + -- P. G. Wodehouse % His life was formal; his actions seemed ruled with a ruler. % @@ -17692,7 +17692,7 @@ Never mind. Huh? % Human kind cannot bear very much reality. - -- T.S. Eliot, "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton" + -- T. S. Eliot, "Four Quartets: Burnt Norton" % Human resources are human first, and resources second. -- J. Garbers @@ -18042,7 +18042,7 @@ To find my way... In the dark! % I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. - -- A.J. Liebling + -- A. J. Liebling % I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. -- Lillian Hellman @@ -18332,7 +18332,7 @@ I feel sorry for your brain... all alone in that great big head... % I figure that if God actually does exist, He's big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion. - - Isaac Asimov + -- Isaac Asimov % I finally went to the eye doctor. I got contacts. I only need them to read, so I got flip-ups. @@ -18367,7 +18367,7 @@ I give you the man who -- the man who -- uh, I forgets the man who? -- Beauregard Bugleboy % I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs. - -- H.L. Mencken + -- H. L. Mencken % I go the way that Providence dictates. -- Adolf Hitler @@ -18494,7 +18494,7 @@ implement a PL/1 compiler. -- T. Cheatham % I hate babies. They're so human. - -- H.H. Munro + -- H. H. Munro % I hate dying. -- Dave Johnson @@ -18554,7 +18554,7 @@ The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow-- Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow; For he sometimes shoots up taller, like an india-rubber ball, And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all. - -- R.L. Stevenson + -- R. L. Stevenson % I have a map of the United States. It's actual size. I spent last summer folding it. @@ -18654,7 +18654,7 @@ I have more hit points that you can possible imagine. % I have never been one to sacrifice my appetite on the altar of appearance. - -- A.M. Readyhough + -- A. M. Readyhough % I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain @@ -19056,10 +19056,10 @@ I'll kill you if you quote it. I never take work home with me; I always leave it in some bar along the way. % I never vote for anyone. I always vote against. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation. - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % I only know what I read in the papers. -- Will Rogers @@ -19081,7 +19081,7 @@ toilet seat. -- Michael McShane % I owe the public nothing. - -- J.P. Morgan + -- J. P. Morgan % I own my own body, but I share. % @@ -19541,7 +19541,7 @@ paneling. -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988. % I think we are in Rats Alley where the dead men lost their bones. - -- T.S. Eliot + -- T. S. Eliot % I think we're all Bozos on this bus. -- Firesign Theatre @@ -19602,7 +19602,7 @@ and drown myself in the noise. -- Charles Schmid, the "Tucson Murderer" % I trust the first lion he meets will do his duty. - -- J.P. Morgan on Teddy Roosevelt's safari + -- J. P. Morgan on Teddy Roosevelt's safari % I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. -- Bill Veeck @@ -20114,7 +20114,7 @@ I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. [Also attributed to S. Clay Wilson. Ed.] % I'd rather have two girls at 21 each than one girl at 42. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % I'd rather just believe that it's done by little elves running around. % @@ -20214,10 +20214,10 @@ they are content to die of old age without ever having gone to see it. % If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly. - -- G.K. Chesterton + -- G. K. Chesterton % If a thing's worth having, it's worth cheating for. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % If a train station is a place where a train stops, what's a workstation? % @@ -20288,14 +20288,14 @@ If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. If at first you don't succeed, quit; don't be a nut about success. % If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. - -- W.E. Hickson + -- W. E. Hickson % If at first you don't succeed, try try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. % If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields [Also attributed to Roy Mengot. Ed.] % @@ -20357,7 +20357,7 @@ no middleman. % If every kid had a funny tooth to bite down on whenever the world disappointed him, prussic acid could solve our population problems in one generation. - -- G.C. Edmonson's Albert, "The Man Who Corrupted Earth" + -- G. C. Edmonson's Albert, "The Man Who Corrupted Earth" % If everything on the road of life seems to be coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. @@ -20559,7 +20559,7 @@ If I promised you the moon and the stars, would you believe it? % If I set here and stare at nothing long enough, people might think I'm an engineer working on something. - -- S.R. McElroy + -- S. R. McElroy % If I told you you had a beautiful body, would you hold it against me? % @@ -20700,7 +20700,7 @@ If you try to cut wood like a master carpenter, % If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - -- J.R.R. Tolkien + -- J. R. R. Tolkien % If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he next comes to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, @@ -20738,7 +20738,7 @@ face the uncertainty of whether you love her. If opportunity came disguised as temptation, one knock would be enough. % If parents would only realize how they bore their children. - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. @@ -21434,7 +21434,7 @@ and laid them end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised. -- Dorothy Parker % If you treat people right they will treat you right -- 90% of the time. - -- F.D. Roosevelt + -- F. D. Roosevelt % If you try to please everyone, somebody is not going to like it. % @@ -21533,7 +21533,7 @@ longer be fantasies. % If you're a real good kid, I'll give you a piggy-back ride on a buzz-saw. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real embarrassing if someone tries to kill you. @@ -21903,7 +21903,7 @@ Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal. -- Lionel Trilling % Immature poets imitate, mature poets steal. - -- T.S. Eliot, "Philip Massinger" + -- T. S. Eliot, "Philip Massinger" % Immutability, Three Rules of: (1) If a tarpaulin can flap, it will. @@ -22178,7 +22178,7 @@ becoming pure energy. % In Nature there are neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences. - -- R.G. Ingersoll + -- R. G. Ingersoll % In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar -- a practice which is still continued. @@ -22403,7 +22403,7 @@ In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes. % In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. - -- H.L. Mencken + -- H. L. Mencken % In this world some people are going to like me and some are not. So, I may as well be me. Then I know if someone likes me, they like me. @@ -22416,7 +22416,7 @@ In this world, truth can wait; she's used to it. % In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. - -- Dr. L.J. Peter + -- Dr. L. J. Peter % In /users3 did Kubla Kahn A stately pleasure dome decree, @@ -22449,7 +22449,7 @@ And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forest ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. - -- S.T. Coleridge, "Kubla Kahn" + -- S. T. Coleridge, "Kubla Kahn" % In youth, it was a way I had To do my best to please, @@ -22479,7 +22479,7 @@ Indecision is the true basis for flexibility. Indeed, the first noble truth of Buddhism, usually translated as `all life is suffering,' is more accurately rendered `life is filled with a sense of pervasive unsatisfactoriness.' - -- M.D. Epstein + -- M. D. Epstein % INDEX: Alphabetical list of words of no possible interest where an @@ -22775,7 +22775,7 @@ then some x has property P] expresses a logical law, since P(x) could stand for, let us say "x is a better logician than I am", and the statement "It is necessary that if someone is a better logician than I am then someone is a better logician than I am" is false because there need not have been any me. - -- A.N. Prior, "Time and Modality" + -- A. N. Prior, "Time and Modality" % It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. -- Benjamin Disraeli @@ -23173,7 +23173,7 @@ sticking out of his chest. *Someone had murdered a Munchkin.* It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. - -- H.L. Mencken + -- H. L. Mencken % It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. -- Grace Murray Hopper @@ -23387,7 +23387,7 @@ It takes both a weapon, and two people, to commit a murder. % It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong. - -- H.W. Longfellow + -- H. W. Longfellow % It takes two to tell the truth: one to speak and one to hear. % @@ -23667,7 +23667,7 @@ It's not easy being green. -- Kermit % It's not hard to admit errors that are [only] cosmetically wrong. - -- J.K. Galbraith + -- J. K. Galbraith % It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things. % @@ -23836,7 +23836,7 @@ bad taste. -- Keith Richards % I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % I've noticed several design suggestions in your code. % @@ -24003,7 +24003,7 @@ Juall's Law on Nice Guys: Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash. - -- P.G. Wodehouse, "Louder and Funnier" + -- P. G. Wodehouse, "Louder and Funnier" % Just a few of the perfect excuses for having some strawberry shortcake. Pick one. @@ -24038,7 +24038,7 @@ And to the friendly skies. Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women. - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % Just because he's dead is no reason to lay off work. % @@ -24576,7 +24576,7 @@ Lawyer's Rule: When both are against you, call the other lawyer names. % Lay off the muses, it's a very tough dollar. - -- S.J. Perelman + -- S. J. Perelman % Lay on, MacDuff, and curs'd be him who first cries, "Hold, enough!". -- Shakespeare @@ -24701,7 +24701,7 @@ around his neck. -- Dave Barry % Let no guilty man escape. - -- U.S. Grant + -- U. S. Grant % Let not the sands of time get in your lunch. % @@ -24742,7 +24742,7 @@ Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question... Oh, do not ask, "What is it?" - -- T.S. Eliot, "Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" + -- T. S. Eliot, "Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock" % Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. @@ -24884,7 +24884,7 @@ change his bed. -- Charles Baudelaire % Life is a series of rude awakenings. - -- R.V. Winkle + -- R. V. Winkle % Life is a serious burden, which no thinking, humane person would wantonly inflict on someone else. @@ -24992,7 +24992,7 @@ Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code. -- Dave Olson % Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % Life's too short to dance with ugly women. % @@ -25171,7 +25171,7 @@ their desires, they're ready to buy, they're ready to spend, it is a thing that is too complex and too big to be affected adversely or advantageously just by a few words or any particular -- say, a little this and that, or even a panacea so alleged. - -- D.D. Eisenhower, in response to: "Has the government + -- D. D. Eisenhower, in response to: "Has the government been lacking in courage and boldness in facing up to the recession?" % @@ -25304,7 +25304,7 @@ JUST SCREW-UP ONE MORE TIME!!!!!!! Long ago I proposed that unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency be quietly hanged, as a matter of public sanitation and decorum. The sight of their grief must have a very evil effect upon the young. - -- H.L. Mencken, "A Carnival of Buncombe" + -- H. L. Mencken, "A Carnival of Buncombe" % Long computations which yield zero are probably all for naught. % @@ -25478,7 +25478,7 @@ raises some pretty good questions. -- Woody Allen % Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. - -- H.L. Mencken + -- H. L. Mencken % Love is the desire to prostitute oneself. There is, indeed, no exalted pleasure that cannot be related to prostitution. @@ -25562,7 +25562,7 @@ Luck can't last a lifetime, unless you die young. -- Russell Banks % Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet. - -- P.E. Trudeau + -- P. E. Trudeau % Lucky, adj: When you have a wife and a cigarette @@ -25696,7 +25696,7 @@ Man has never reconciled himself to the ten commandments. % Man is a military animal, Glories in gunpowder, and loves parade. - -- P.J. Bailey + -- P. J. Bailey % Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. @@ -26147,7 +26147,7 @@ lots of folks who ain't using ain't ain't eatin' well. -- Will Rogers % Maybe Computer Science should be in the College of Theology. - -- R.S. Barton + -- R. S. Barton % Maybe Jesus was right when he said that the meek shall inherit the earth -- but they inherit very small plots, about six feet by three. @@ -26277,11 +26277,11 @@ Men freely believe that what they wish to desire. % Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later; for another thing they die earlier. - -- H.L. Mencken + -- H. L. Mencken % Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs. - -- E.W. Howe + -- E. W. Howe % Men live for three things, fast cars, fast women and fast food. % @@ -26451,7 +26451,7 @@ Mix's Law: Mobius strippers never show you their back side. % Modeling paged and segmented memories is tricky business. - -- P.J. Denning + -- P. J. Denning % modem, adj: Up-to-date, new-fangled, as in "Thoroughly Modem Millie." An @@ -26477,14 +26477,14 @@ is important also to see that we have not reached that day yet: the working assumption is a necessary one and there is no real evidence opposed to it. Our failure to solve a problem so far does not make it insoluble. One cannot logically be a determinist in physics and biology, and a mystic in psychology. - -- D.O. Hebb, "Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological + -- D. O. Hebb, "Organization of Behavior: A Neuropsychological Theory", 1949 % MODESTY: Being comfortable that others will discover your greatness. % Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue. - -- J.K. Galbraith + -- J. K. Galbraith % Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it. @@ -26540,11 +26540,11 @@ To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, Is a keen observer of life, The word intellectual suggests right away A man who's untrue to his wife. - -- W.H. Auden, "Collected Shorter Poems" + -- W. H. Auden, "Collected Shorter Poems" % Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. - -- C.B. Luce + -- C. B. Luce % Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position. -- Christopher Marlowe @@ -26575,7 +26575,7 @@ Moneyliness is next to Godliness. -- Andries van Dam % Monogamy is the Western custom of one wife and hardly any mistresses. - -- H.H. Munro + -- H. H. Munro % MONOTONY: Marriage to one woman at a time. @@ -26599,7 +26599,7 @@ More are taken in by hope than by cunning. -- Vauvenargues % More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice. - -- R.S. Surtees + -- R. S. Surtees % More people died at Chappaquidick than at 3-mile island. % @@ -26674,7 +26674,7 @@ Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. - -- H.L. Mencken + -- H. L. Mencken % Most people can do without the essentials, but not without the luxuries. % @@ -26685,14 +26685,14 @@ Most people don't need a great deal of love nearly so much as they need a steady supply. % Most people eat as though they were fattening themselves for market. - -- E.W. Howe + -- E. W. Howe % Most people feel that everyone is entitled to their opinion. % Most people have a furious itch to talk about themselves and are restrained only by the disinclination of others to listen. Reserve is an artificial quality that is developed in most of us as the result of innumerable rebuffs. - -- W.S. Maugham + -- W. S. Maugham % Most people have a mind that's open by appointment only. % @@ -26918,11 +26918,11 @@ just as high and wild as I was: no doubt at all about that. "My country, right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think of saying, except in a desperate case. It is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober." - -- G.K. Chesterton, "The Defendant" + -- G. K. Chesterton, "The Defendant" % "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." - -- G.K. Chesterton + -- G. K. Chesterton % My cup hath runneth'd over with love. % @@ -26944,7 +26944,7 @@ My doctorate's in Literature, but it seems like a pretty good pulse to me. My experience with government is when things are non-controversial, beautifully co-ordinated and all the rest, it must be that not much is going on. - -- J.F. Kennedy + -- J. F. Kennedy % My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you. -- Iphicrates @@ -26960,7 +26960,7 @@ My father taught me three things: % My father was a God-fearing man, but he never missed a copy of the New York Times, either. - -- E.B. White + -- E. B. White % My father was a saint, I'm not. -- Indira Gandhi @@ -27032,7 +27032,7 @@ My own dear love, he is all my heart -- % My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say. And then say it with the utmost levity. - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs. @@ -27693,7 +27693,7 @@ and if we are loved we are indispensable. -- Robert Louis Stevenson % No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next. - -- E.W. Howe + -- E. W. Howe % No man's ambition has a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice. @@ -27747,7 +27747,7 @@ No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. % No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have, and I think he's a dirty little beast. - -- W.S. Gilbert + -- W. S. Gilbert % No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. -- Eleanor Roosevelt @@ -27807,7 +27807,7 @@ Refrain: No poet or novelist wishes he was the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted. - -- W.H. Auden, "The Dyer's Hand" + -- W. H. Auden, "The Dyer's Hand" % No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances. % @@ -27985,7 +27985,7 @@ nominal egg: New Yorkerese for expensive. % Non-Determinism is not meant to be reasonable. - -- M.J. 0'Donnell + -- M. J. 0'Donnell % None love the bearer of bad news. -- Sophocles @@ -28004,7 +28004,7 @@ Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it. -- Heisenberg % Nonsense and beauty have close connections. - -- E.M. Forster + -- E. M. Forster % No one ever built a statue to a critic. % @@ -28192,7 +28192,7 @@ Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. Next to being shot at and missed, nothing is really quite as satisfying as an income tax refund. - -- F.J. Raymond + -- F. J. Raymond % Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. % @@ -28209,7 +28209,7 @@ Nothing is ever a total loss; it can always serve as a bad example. Nothing is finished until the paperwork is done. % Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. - -- A.H. Weiler + -- A. H. Weiler % Nothing is more quiet than the sound of hair going grey. % @@ -28358,7 +28358,7 @@ And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow. - -- A.E. Housman + -- A. E. Housman % Now that day wearies me, My yearning desire @@ -28825,7 +28825,7 @@ Keith and Kim," she said. As she began to get up, she quickly added, "Oh, and God, this is goodbye. We're moving to Hollywood." % On the whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia. - -- W.C. Fields' epitaph + -- W. C. Fields' epitaph % Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) @@ -28894,7 +28894,7 @@ Once he had one leg in the White House and the nation trembled under his roars. Now he is a tinpot pope in the Coca-Cola belt and a brother to the forlorn pastors who belabor halfwits in galvanized iron tabernacles behind the railroad yards." - -- H.L. Mencken, writing of William Jennings Bryan, + -- H. L. Mencken, writing of William Jennings Bryan, counsel for the supporters of Tennessee's anti-evolution law at the Scopes "Monkey Trial" in 1925. % @@ -28928,7 +28928,7 @@ Then Justice came. His Honor cried: I never saw your face before!" % Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in. - -- H.R. Haldeman + -- H. R. Haldeman % Once there was a little nerd who loved to read your mail, And then yank back the i-access times to get hackers off his tail, @@ -29013,7 +29013,7 @@ One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid. - -- J.D. Watson, "The Double Helix" + -- J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix" % One day an elderly Jewish Pole, living in Warsaw, finds an old lamp in his attic. He starts to polish it and (poof!) a genie appears in cloud of smoke. @@ -29112,7 +29112,7 @@ head. Her bloodshot eyes fell upon her husband, who says, "And all these years you've been thinkin' I've been enjoying meself." % One expresses well the love he does not feel. - -- J.A. Karr + -- J. A. Karr % One family builds a wall, two families enjoy it. % @@ -29159,7 +29159,7 @@ ANOTHER WORLD all THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES. One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as true. % One man's constant is another man's variable. - -- A.J. Perlis + -- A. J. Perlis % One man's folly is another man's wife. -- Helen Rowland @@ -29582,7 +29582,7 @@ design is that now a system failure can usually be considered to be the result of two program errors: the first, in the program that started the problem; the second, in the recovery routine that could not protect the system. - -- A.L. Scherr, "Functional Structure of IBM Virtual Storage + -- A. L. Scherr, "Functional Structure of IBM Virtual Storage Operating Systems, Part II: OS/VS-2 Concepts and Philosophies," IBM Systems Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4. % @@ -29677,7 +29677,7 @@ Now ... just try to find out where! % Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too. - -- D.J. Hicks + -- D. J. Hicks % Pardon me while I laugh. % @@ -29881,7 +29881,7 @@ People respond to people who respond. % People say I live in my own little fantasy world... well, at least they *know* me there! - -- D.L. Roth + -- D. L. Roth % People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out on the pleasure. @@ -29928,7 +29928,7 @@ People's Action Rules: (5) Some people who shouldn't, but try, will then blame others. % Per buck you get more computing action with the small computer. - -- R.W. Hamming + -- R. W. Hamming % Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. [Confound those who have said our remarks before us.] @@ -30110,7 +30110,7 @@ Not one damn thing do we solve. Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square. % Piece of cake! - -- G.S. Koblas + -- G. S. Koblas % Pilfering Treasure property is particularly dangerous: big thieves are ruthless in punishing little thieves. @@ -30260,7 +30260,7 @@ Thank you. You may resume your seat. Plots are like girdles. Hidden, they hold your interest; revealed, they're of no interest except to fetishists. Like girdles, they attempt to contain an uncontainable experience. - -- R.S. Knapp + -- R. S. Knapp % PLUG IT IN!!! % @@ -30273,7 +30273,7 @@ Poland has gun control. % Political history is far too criminal a subject to be a fit thing to teach children. - -- W.H. Auden + -- W. H. Auden % Political speeches are like steer horns. A point here, a point there, and a lot of bull inbetween. @@ -30453,7 +30453,7 @@ Prejudice: -- Ambrose Bierce % Premature optimization is the root of all evil. - -- D.E. Knuth + -- D. E. Knuth % Preserve the old, but know the new. % @@ -30485,7 +30485,7 @@ And he did -- nine soliloquies later. Princeton's taste is sweet like a strawberry tart. Harvard's is a subtle taste, like whiskey, coffee, or tobacco. It may even be a bad habit, for all I know. - -- Prof. J.H. Finley '25 + -- Prof. J. H. Finley '25 % Priority: A statement of the importance of a user or a program. Often @@ -30526,7 +30526,7 @@ Programmers do it bit by bit. % Programmers used to batch environments may find it hard to live without giant listings; we would find it hard to use them. - -- D.M. Ritchie + -- D. M. Ritchie % Programming Department: Mistakes made while you wait. @@ -30542,7 +30542,7 @@ PROGRESS: % Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % Progress means replacing a theory that is wrong with one more subtly wrong. @@ -30601,7 +30601,7 @@ a therapy. Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd. Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you. - -- C.G. Jung + -- C. G. Jung % psychologist, n: Someone who watches everyone else when an attractive woman walks @@ -30643,7 +30643,7 @@ PURITAN: someone, somewhere, is having fun. % Puritanism -- the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. - -- H.L. Mencken, "A Book of Burlesques" + -- H. L. Mencken, "A Book of Burlesques" % PURPITATION: To take something off the grocery shelf, decide you @@ -31804,11 +31804,11 @@ Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. % Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled. - -- R.P. Feynman + -- R. P. Feynman % Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled. - -- R.P. Feynman + -- R. P. Feynman % Reappraisal, n: An abrupt change of mind after being found out. @@ -31820,7 +31820,7 @@ Recent investments will yield a slight profit. % Recent research has tended to show that the Abominable No-Man is being replaced by the Prohibitive Procrastinator. - -- C.N. Parkinson + -- C. N. Parkinson % Recently deceased blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan "comes to" after his death. He sees Jimi Hendrix sitting next to him, tuning his guitar. @@ -32457,7 +32457,7 @@ Hard luck has of hope bereft you, Health is failing, wish you'd die-- Why, you've still the sunshine left you And the big blue sky. - -- R.W. Service + -- R. W. Service % Say it with flowers, Or say it with mink, @@ -32839,7 +32839,7 @@ unimportant. -- Henry Miller % Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated. - -- M.C. Reed + -- M. C. Reed % Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. @@ -32859,7 +32859,7 @@ Shah, shah! Ayatulla you so! % Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary? - -- J.M. Barrie + -- J. M. Barrie % Shame is an improper emotion invented by pietists to oppress the human race. @@ -33166,7 +33166,7 @@ kmxsij90TYDFS$$b jkzxdjkl bjnk ;j nk;<[][;-==-<<<<<';[, Now look what you've gone and done! You've broken it! % Sleep -- the most beautiful experience in life -- except drink. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % Sleep is for the weak and sickly. % @@ -33250,7 +33250,7 @@ Theirs is a strength supreme... theirs is the strength -- to restore. So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist. - -- T.S. Eliot, essay on Baudelaire + -- T. S. Eliot, essay on Baudelaire % So from the depths of its enchantment, Terra was able to calculate a course of action. Here at last was an opportunity to consort with Durbanu on a @@ -33436,7 +33436,7 @@ Solipsists of the World... you are already united. % Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. - -- K.A. Arsdall + -- K. A. Arsdall % Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. @@ -33570,7 +33570,7 @@ Some people pray for more than they are willing to work for. % Some people say a front-engine car handles best. Some people say a rear-engine car handles best. I say a rented car handles best. - -- P.J. O'Rourke + -- P. J. O'Rourke % Some peoples mouths work faster than their brains. They say things they haven't even thought of yet. @@ -33594,7 +33594,7 @@ Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books. Some things have to be believed to be seen. % Somebody left the cork out of my lunch. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % Somebody's moggy, by the side of the road, Somebody's pussy, who forgot his highway code, @@ -33691,7 +33691,7 @@ Something's rotten in the state of Denmark. % Sometime when you least expect it, Love will tap you on the shoulder... and ask you to move out of the way because it still isn't your turn. - -- N.V. Plyter + -- N. V. Plyter % Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. -- Sigmund Freud @@ -33906,7 +33906,7 @@ Stanford women are responsible for the success of many Stanford men: they give them "just one more reason" to stay in and study every night. % Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % Start the day with a smile. After that you can be your nasty old self again. @@ -34104,7 +34104,7 @@ Success is in the minds of Fools. % Success is relative: It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. - -- T.S. Eliot, "The Family Reunion" + -- T. S. Eliot, "The Family Reunion" % Success is something I will dress for when I get there, and not until. % @@ -34332,7 +34332,7 @@ Systems programmer: are to receive from your boss. % Systems programmers are the high priests of a low cult. - -- R.S. Barton + -- R. S. Barton % TACKY: Serving grape kool-aid at religious functions. @@ -34555,7 +34555,7 @@ Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. % Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die. - -- C.S. Lewis + -- C. S. Lewis % Tertullian was born in Carthage somewhere about 160 A.D. He was a pagan, and he abandoned himself to the lascivious life of his city until about @@ -34567,7 +34567,7 @@ This does not altogether accord with historical fact, for he merely said: is impossible." Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it. - -- C.G. Jung, "Psychological Types" + -- C. G. Jung, "Psychological Types" [Tertullian was one of the founders of the Catholic Church. Ed.] % Test for paraquat: @@ -34711,7 +34711,7 @@ The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. -- Lewis Carroll % The 11 is for people with the pride of a 10 and the pocketbook of an 8. - -- R.B. Greenberg + -- R. B. Greenberg % The 357.73 Theory -- Auditors always reject expense accounts @@ -35209,7 +35209,7 @@ is when he fills out a job application form. -- Stanley J. Randall % The clothes have no emperor. - -- C.A.R. Hoare, commenting on ADA. + -- C. A. R. Hoare, commenting on ADA. % The coast was clear. -- Lope de Vega @@ -35308,7 +35308,7 @@ you talked about. The cost of feathers has risen, even down is up! % The cost of living has just gone up another dollar a quart. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % The countdown had stalled at "T" minus 69 seconds when Desiree, the first female ape to go up in space, winked at me slyly and pouted her thick, @@ -35356,7 +35356,7 @@ years arguing the Monty Hall and the three doors problem. % The day advanced as if to light some work of mine; it was morning, and lo! now it is evening, and nothing memorable is accomplished. - -- H.D. Thoreau + -- H. D. Thoreau % The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his Father, in the womb of a virgin will be classified with the fable of @@ -35473,7 +35473,7 @@ The difference between us is not very far, cruising for burgers in daddy's new car. % The difference between waltzes and disco is mostly one of volume. - -- T.K. + -- T. K. % The difficult we do today; the impossible takes a little longer. % @@ -35768,7 +35768,7 @@ The first requisite for immortality is death. -- Stanislaw Lem % The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist "Jack." - -- H.L. Mencken + -- H. L. Mencken % The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. -- Ehrlich @@ -35844,7 +35844,7 @@ if the character does not have fire resistance. % The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully interferes. - -- G.K. Chesterton + -- G. K. Chesterton % The function of the expert is not to be more right than other people, but to be wrong for more sophisticated reasons. @@ -35854,7 +35854,7 @@ The future is a myth created by insurance salesmen and high school counselors. % The future is a race between education and catastrophe. - -- H.G. Wells + -- H. G. Wells % The future isn't what it used to be. (It never was.) % @@ -35951,7 +35951,7 @@ for the Duke of Wellington, and asked his advice. He instantly replied, "But we have always understood that your Grace thought Lord Combermere a fool." "So he is a fool, and a damned fool; but he can take Rangoon." - -- G.W.E. Russell + -- G. W. E. Russell % The goys have proven the following theorem... -- Physicist John von Neumann, at the start of a classroom @@ -36298,7 +36298,7 @@ The happiest time in any man's life is just after the first divorce. -- Galbraith % The happiest time of a person's life is after his first divorce. - -- J.K. Galbraith + -- J. K. Galbraith % The hardest part of climbing the ladder of success is getting through the crowd at the bottom. @@ -36475,7 +36475,7 @@ Yet does he wonder, do you suppose, If, even in gods divine, The best and wisest may not be those Who have wallowed awhile with the swine? - -- R.W. Service + -- R. W. Service % The justifications for drug testing are part of the presently fashionable debate concerning restoring America's "competitiveness." Drugs, it has been @@ -36793,7 +36793,7 @@ The main problem I have with cats is, they're not dogs. % The major advances in civilization are processes that all but wreck the societies in which they occur. - -- A.N. Whitehead + -- A. N. Whitehead % The major difference between bonds and bond traders is that the bonds will eventually mature. @@ -36840,7 +36840,7 @@ The man who laughs has not yet been told the terrible news. -- Bertolt Brecht % The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas. - -- H.G. Wells, "Time After Time" + -- H. G. Wells, "Time After Time" % The man who runs may fight again. -- Menander @@ -36911,7 +36911,7 @@ The meek shall inherit the earth; but by that time there won't be anything left worth inheriting. % The meek shall inherit the earth, but *not* its mineral rights. - -- J.P. Getty + -- J. P. Getty % The meek shall inherit the earth; the rest of us, the Universe. % @@ -36941,7 +36941,7 @@ The minute a man is convinced that he is interesting, he isn't. The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions. - -- Marquis D.A.F. de Sade + -- Marquis D. A. F. de Sade % The Modelski Chain Rule: 1: Look intently at the problem for several minutes. Scratch your @@ -37034,7 +37034,7 @@ of people in the world named Mohammad Chang? % The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. - -- H.L. Mencken + -- H. L. Mencken % The most dangerous food is wedding cake. -- American proverb @@ -37066,7 +37066,7 @@ the wineyness of a late sun, the intimate kiss of fertilizing rain, and the bite of fire. You must slice it thin, almost as thin as this page you hold in your hands. The making of a ham dinner, like the making of a gentleman, starts a long, long time before the event. - -- W.B. Courtney, "Reflections of Maryland Country Ham", + -- W. B. Courtney, "Reflections of Maryland Country Ham", from "Congress Eate It Up" % ...the most exquisitely squalid hells known to middle-class man: @@ -37647,12 +37647,12 @@ horse. % The propriety of some persons seems to consist in having improper thoughts about their neighbours. - -- F.H. Bradley + -- F. H. Bradley % The public demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties. - -- H.L. Mencken, "Prejudice" + -- H. L. Mencken, "Prejudice" % The Public is merely a multiplied "me." -- Mark Twain @@ -37749,7 +37749,7 @@ nobody in the government there has a clue as to how to run a country. % The relative importance of files depends on their cost in terms of the human effort needed to regenerate them. - -- T.A. Dolotta + -- T. A. Dolotta % The requirements of romantic love are difficult to satisfy in the trunk of a Dodge Dart. @@ -37858,7 +37858,7 @@ showed that all had these things in common: The search for the perfect martini is a fraud. The perfect martini is a belt of gin from the bottle; anything else is the decadent trappings of civilization. - -- T.K. + -- T. K. % The second best policy is dishonesty. % @@ -38005,7 +38005,7 @@ The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality. - -- S.J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man" + -- S. J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man" % The star of riches is shining upon you. % @@ -38245,7 +38245,7 @@ The time is right to make new friends. % The time spent on any item of the agenda [of a finance committee] will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. - -- C.N. Parkinson + -- C. N. Parkinson % The time was the 19th of May, 1780. The place was Hartford, Connecticut. The day has gone down in New England history as a terrible foretaste of @@ -38347,12 +38347,12 @@ The two most beautiful words in the English language are "Cheque Enclosed." -- Dorothy Parker % The two oldest professions in the world have been ruined by amateurs. - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % The two party system ... is a triumph of the dialectic. It showed that two could be one and one could be two and had probably been fabricated by Hegel for the American market on a subcontract from General Dynamics. - -- I.F. Stone + -- I. F. Stone % The two things that can get you into trouble quicker than anything else are fast women and slow horses. @@ -38523,7 +38523,7 @@ The whole world is about three drinks behind. The wise and intelligent are coming belatedly to realize that alcohol, and not the dog, is man's best friend. Rover is taking a beating -- and he should. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % The wise man seeks everything in himself; the ignorant man tries to get everything from somebody else. @@ -38559,7 +38559,7 @@ and a tragedy to those who feel. % The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. - -- E.B. White + -- E. B. White % The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. @@ -38595,7 +38595,7 @@ pen. Whether death was by drowning, by fits or by runaway sleigh, the formula was the same: Have you heard of the dreadful fate - Of Mr. P.P. Bliss and wife? + Of Mr. P. P. Bliss and wife? Of their death I will relate, And also others lost their life (in the) Ashbula Bridge disaster, @@ -38654,7 +38654,7 @@ ash tray." -- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures" % The worst cliques are those which consist of one man. - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % THE WORST HOMING PIGEON @@ -38771,7 +38771,7 @@ Santos Pais, claimed that the escape was "normal" and part of the % The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity. - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. @@ -38823,7 +38823,7 @@ acceptance, and peace. "'Bye for now," she said warmly. Then there was LSD, which was supposed to make you think you could fly. I remember it made you think you couldn't stand up, and mostly it was right. - -- P.J. O'Rourke + -- P. J. O'Rourke % Then there was the Formosan bartender named Taiwan-On. % @@ -39109,7 +39109,7 @@ marriage and after marriage. There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. - -- C.A.R. Hoare + -- C. A. R. Hoare % There are two ways of disliking art. One is to dislike it. @@ -39140,7 +39140,7 @@ There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. % There comes a time in the affairs of a man when he has to take the bull by the tail and face the situation. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % There comes a time to stop being angry. -- A Small Circle of Friends @@ -39205,7 +39205,7 @@ It's called the Birch John Society. There is a time in the tides of men, Which, taken at its flood, leads on to success. On the other hand, don't count on it. - -- T.K. Lawson + -- T. K. Lawson % There is a vast difference between the savage and civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast. @@ -39258,7 +39258,7 @@ Soon or late the laws governing the production of life itself will be discovered in the laboratory, and man may set up business as a creator on his own account. The thing, indeed, is not only conceivable; it is even highly probable. - -- H.L. Mencken, 1930 + -- H. L. Mencken, 1930 % There is is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. -- Ken Olsen (President of Digital Equipment Corporation), @@ -39270,11 +39270,11 @@ and we will conquer. Follow me. % There is more simplicity in a man who eats caviar on impulse than in a man who eats Grapenuts on principle. - -- G.K. Chesterton + -- G. K. Chesterton % There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle. - -- G.K. Chesterton + -- G. K. Chesterton % There is more to life than increasing its speed. -- Mahatma Gandhi @@ -39378,7 +39378,7 @@ There is no royal road to geometry. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. % There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it. - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity. -- General Douglas MacArthur @@ -39526,7 +39526,7 @@ that I had promised." The king knew that his son would be a great king. % There seems no plan because it is all plan. - -- C.S. Lewis + -- C. S. Lewis % There was a little girl Who had a little curl @@ -39763,7 +39763,7 @@ There's nothing like the face of a kid eating a Hershey bar. % There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. - -- J.S. Bach + -- J. S. Bach % There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit at a typewriter and open a vein. @@ -39959,7 +39959,7 @@ They're only trying to make me LOOK paranoid! % Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. - -- G.K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday" + -- G. K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday" % Things are more like they are today than they ever were before. -- Dwight Eisenhower @@ -40081,7 +40081,7 @@ This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not. - -- A.E. Housman + -- A. E. Housman % This is Jim Rockford. At the tone leave your name and message; I'll get back to you. @@ -40125,7 +40125,7 @@ This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang but with a whimper. - -- T.S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" + -- T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" % This isn't right. This isn't even wrong. -- Wolfgang Pauli, on a colleague's paper @@ -40265,7 +40265,7 @@ at are called software. % Those who are mentally and emotionally healthy are those who have learned when to say yes, when to say no and when to say whoopee. - -- W.S. Krabill + -- W. S. Krabill % Those who believe in astrology are living in houses with foundations of Silly Putty. @@ -40370,7 +40370,7 @@ all appearing on a quiz program, were asked to complete this sentence: % Three minutes' thought would suffice to find this out; but thought is irksome and three minutes is a long time. - -- A.E. Houseman + -- A. E. Houseman % Three o'clock in the afternoon is always just a little too late or a little too early for anything you want to do. @@ -40384,7 +40384,7 @@ In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. - -- J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Lord of the Rings" + -- J. R. R. Tolkien, "The Lord of the Rings" % Three rules for sounding like an expert: 1. Oversimplify your explanations to the point of uselessness. @@ -40545,7 +40545,7 @@ Time will end all my troubles, but I don't always approve of Time's methods. % Time-sharing is the junk-mail part of the computer business. - -- H.R.J. Grosch (attributed) + -- H. R. J. Grosch (attributed) % timesharing, n: An access method whereby one computer abuses many people. @@ -40596,7 +40596,7 @@ available through stores and is void where prohibited by law. Tis man's perdition to be safe, when for the truth he ought to die. % 'Tis more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents. - -- H.L. Mencken + -- H. L. Mencken % To a Californian, a person must prove himself criminally insane before he is allowed to drive a taxi in New York. For New York cabbies, honesty and @@ -40663,10 +40663,10 @@ weaknesses, vanities, appetites, and aversions -- can be so happy as he can be in the United States. Going further, I lay down the doctrine that it is a sheer physical impossibility for such a man to live in the United States and not be happy. - -- H.L. Mencken, "On Being An American" + -- H. L. Mencken, "On Being An American" % To be is to be related. - -- C.J. Keyser. + -- C. J. Keyser. % To be is to do. -- I. Kant @@ -40693,7 +40693,7 @@ never stop fighting. To be nobody-but-yourself in a world which is doing its best to, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. - -- E.E. Cummings, "A Miscellany" + -- E. E. Cummings, "A Miscellany" % To be or not to be. -- Shakespeare @@ -41038,7 +41038,7 @@ boarder. Today you'll start getting heavy metal radio on your dentures. % Todays weirdness is tomorrows reason why. - -- H.S. Thompson + -- H. S. Thompson % Toddlers are the stormtroopers of the Lord of Entropy. % @@ -41284,7 +41284,7 @@ Turn the other cheek. % 'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never even had the decency to thank her. - -- R.B. Gossling + -- R. B. Gossling % "Twas bergen and the eirie road Did mahwah into patterson: "Beware the Hopatcong, my son! @@ -41581,7 +41581,7 @@ ordinance under which you can be booked. % Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - -- J.K. Galbraith + -- J. K. Galbraith % Under every stone lurks a politician. -- Aristophanes @@ -41612,7 +41612,7 @@ understand, v: % Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. - -- P.D. Ouspensky + -- P. D. Ouspensky % UNFAIR COMPETITION: Selling cheaper than we do. @@ -41697,7 +41697,7 @@ time waste me. -- William Shakespeare % Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense. - -- E.E. Cummings + -- E. E. Cummings % Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. @@ -41780,7 +41780,7 @@ Veni, Vidi, VISA: Verba volant, scripta manent! % Vermouth always makes me brilliant unless it makes me idiotic. - -- E.F. Benson + -- E. F. Benson % Very few people do anything creative after the age of thirty-five. The reason is that very few people do anything creative before the age of @@ -41905,7 +41905,7 @@ And earthquakes only terrify the dolts, And to him who's scientific There is nothing that's terrific In the pattern of a flight of thunderbolts! - -- W.S. Gilbert, "The Mikado" + -- W. S. Gilbert, "The Mikado" % Volley Theory: It is better to have lobbed and lost @@ -42395,7 +42395,7 @@ an adaptation for definite roles (probably a complex set of interacting functions). But these assumptions do not lead to the notion, often uncritically embraced by strict Darwinians, that all major capacities of the brain must arise as direct products of natural selection. - -- S.J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man" + -- S. J. Gould, "The Mismeasure of Man" % We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it. @@ -42428,7 +42428,7 @@ is truth and righteousness, the cause of humanity and a crusade for peace. We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. - -- H.L. Mencken, "Minority Report" + -- H. L. Mencken, "Minority Report" % We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. @@ -42477,7 +42477,7 @@ Each one serves until they screw up, at which point they rotate. -- Dennis Miller % We should keep the Panama Canal. After all, we stole it fair and square. - -- S.I. Hayakawa + -- S. I. Hayakawa % We should realize that a city is better off with bad laws, so long as they remain fixed, then with good laws that are constantly being altered, that @@ -42556,7 +42556,7 @@ borders to interstate commerce, and garbage is a form of interstate commerce. -- Ohio Lt. Governor Paul Leonard % [We] use bad software and bad machines for the wrong things. - -- R.W. Hamming + -- R. W. Hamming % We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a clever but highly unmotivated trick. @@ -42585,7 +42585,7 @@ If we heard a noise at night, we'd bark ourselves. We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. - -- S.J. Gould + -- S. J. Gould % WEAPON: An index of the lack of development of a culture. @@ -42722,7 +42722,7 @@ Well, they've no idea what money's for -- Ten to one they'll start another war. I've heard a lot of silly things, but, Lor'! Fancy giving money to the Government! - -- A.P. Herbert + -- A. P. Herbert % We'll have solar energy when the power companies develop a sunbeam meter. % @@ -42884,7 +42884,7 @@ it's not going to do anything for you. We're fantastically incredibly sorry for all these extremely unreasonable things we did. I can only plead that my simple, barely-sentient friend and myself are underprivileged, deprived and also college students. - -- Waldo D.R. Dobbs + -- Waldo D. R. Dobbs % We're happy little Vegemites, As bright as bright can be. @@ -42895,7 +42895,7 @@ Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin. - -- F.M. Colby, "Imaginary Obligations" + -- F. M. Colby, "Imaginary Obligations" % We're Knights of the Round Table We dance whene'er we're able @@ -42914,7 +42914,7 @@ I have to push the pram a lot. -- Monty Python % We're living in a golden age. All you need is gold. - -- D.W. Robertson. + -- D. W. Robertson. % We're mortal -- which is to say, we're ignorant, stupid, and sinful -- but those are only handicaps. Our pride is that nevertheless, now and @@ -42959,7 +42959,7 @@ And the cool, green hills of Earth. Wharbat darbid yarbou sarbay? % What!? Me worry? - -- A.E. Newman + -- A. E. Newman % What a bonanza! An unknown beginner to be directed by Lubitsch, in a script by Wilder and Brackett, and to play with Paramount's two superstars, Gary @@ -43105,7 +43105,7 @@ What if there had been room at the inn? -- Linda Festa on the origins of Christianity % What is algebra, exactly? Is it one of those three-cornered things? - -- J.M. Barrie + -- J. M. Barrie % What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke. @@ -43213,7 +43213,7 @@ A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her. % What on earth would a man do with himself if something did not stand in his way? - -- H.G. Wells + -- H. G. Wells % What one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. -- John Lilly @@ -43254,7 +43254,7 @@ their grasp before they were five years old. -- Robertson Davies, "The Rebel Angels" % What scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch? - -- J.D. Farley + -- J. D. Farley % What segment's this, that, laid to rest On FHA0, is sleeping? @@ -43532,7 +43532,7 @@ of many men for the inattentions of one. % When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore. - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured. @@ -43713,7 +43713,7 @@ what you like now." % When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough. - -- H.L. Mencken, "Minority Report" + -- H. L. Mencken, "Minority Report" % When I kill, the only thing I feel is recoil. % @@ -44157,7 +44157,7 @@ When we write programs that "learn", it turns out we do and they don't. % When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. - -- H.L. Mencken, "Sententiae" + -- H. L. Mencken, "Sententiae" % When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not @@ -44390,7 +44390,7 @@ So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head. - -- E.A. Robinson, "Richard Cory" + -- E. A. Robinson, "Richard Cory" % Whenever someone tells you to take their advice, you can be pretty sure that they're not using it. @@ -44951,17 +44951,6 @@ your G.P.A.?" Grinning ear to ear, the jock boasted, "I get about twenty-five in the city and forty on the highway." % -With the end of the football season, a star player on the college team was -celebrating the relaxation of his curfew by attending a late-night campus -party. Soon after arriving, he was captivated by a beautiful coed and -eased into a conversation with her by asking if she met many dates at -parties. - "Oh, I have a three point eight, so I'm much more attracted to the -strong academic types than to the dumb party animals," she said. "What's -you G.P.A.?" - Grinning from ear to ear, the jock boasted, "I get at least -twenty-five in the city and forty on the highway!" -% With women, I've got a long bamboo pole with a leather loop on the end of it. I slip the loop around their necks so they can't get away or come too close. Like catching snakes. @@ -45022,7 +45011,7 @@ Yogi Berra: "No, ma'am, its not even carbonated." % Woman are like elephants to me: I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them. -- Dumas @@ -45068,7 +45057,7 @@ Women are just like men, only different. % Women are like elephants to me: I like to look at them, but I wouldn't want to own one. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % Women are not much, but they are the best other sex we have. -- Herold @@ -45393,7 +45382,7 @@ paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. -- Gene Fowler % Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. - -- J.P. Donleavy + -- J. P. Donleavy % Writing software is more fun than working. % @@ -46107,7 +46096,7 @@ You can't carve your way to success without cutting remarks. % You can't cheat an honest man, never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % You can't cheat the phone company. % @@ -46120,7 +46109,7 @@ You can't erase a dream, you can only wake me up. -- Peter Frampton % You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school. - -- H.H. Munro + -- H. H. Munro % "You can't expect a mother to be with a small child all the time", Margaret Mead once remarked, with her usual good sense, but in 1978 @@ -46396,7 +46385,7 @@ highly trained certified public accountants. -- Elvis Presley % You know you are getting old when you think you should drive the speed limit. - -- E.A. Gilliam + -- E. A. Gilliam % You know your apartment is small... when you can't know its position and velocity at the same time. @@ -46610,7 +46599,7 @@ the useful ones. You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" -- George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah" - [No, it wasn't J.F. Kennedy. Ed.] + [No, it wasn't J. F. Kennedy. Ed.] % You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you @@ -46677,7 +46666,7 @@ your love could drag on for years and years. % You want to know why I kept getting promoted? Because my mouth knows more than my brain. - -- W.G. + -- W. G. % You will always find something in the last place you look. % @@ -46756,7 +46745,7 @@ You will experience a strong urge to do good; but it will pass. You will find me drinking gin In the lowest kind of inn, Because I am a rigid Vegetarian. - -- G.K. Chesterton + -- G. K. Chesterton % You will forget that you ever knew me. % diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o index 1d7ea6e5306..d95d397da6e 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/fortunes2-o @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Nothing to eat? Mommy, that I was saving for Christmas dinner. Testicles, testicles, said Daddy. A man gets tired of testicles. - -- L.L. Zeiger + -- L. L. Zeiger % ... So this is a very confusing situation, and what makes it even worse is, our standards keep changing. Take Playboy magazine. Back in the @@ -3486,7 +3486,7 @@ Said, I'm the match for any machine. My secret's aversion, To loops and recursion, Just acres of in-line routine. - -- W.J. Wilson + -- W. J. Wilson % A progressive professor named Winners Held classes each evening for sinners. @@ -4443,7 +4443,7 @@ makes the ride fun." % As near as I can tell, you're not any crazier than the average asshole on the street. - -- R.P. McMurphy, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" + -- R. P. McMurphy, "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" % As part of an equal opportunity project, a memo was sent to all the offices within External Affairs asking for "A list of all employees broken down by @@ -4700,7 +4700,7 @@ don't drink, and she's got her own pussy!" Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks; Birth, copulation and death. - -- T.S. Elliot, "Sweeney Agonistes" + -- T. S. Elliot, "Sweeney Agonistes" % Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. -- Woody Allen @@ -4788,7 +4788,7 @@ tits, every heterosexual male in the country was hopelessly trapped. % But they'll never mechanize me -- not me! Said Charlotte, the Louisville harlot. - -- S.I. Hayakawa + -- S. I. Hayakawa % But we've only fondled the surface of that subject. -- Virginia Masters, of Master & Johnson @@ -5381,7 +5381,7 @@ Dear Ann Landers: My husband watches the TV preachers every Sunday. He claims one minister said there are 350 different sins. My husband wants to know if you can get the list. He thinks he is missing something. - -- E.J. Mayfield + -- E. J. Mayfield % Dear Lord, observe this bended knee This visage meek and humble, @@ -5697,7 +5697,7 @@ Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether. - -- H.S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" + -- H. S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" % Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only real cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then @@ -5993,7 +5993,7 @@ morning, or maybe both if he's under 25. The average woman would like to have sex non-stop all weekend, once a month. Shopping: - It's no coincidence that L.L. Bean, Sears, and Roebuck were all men. + It's no coincidence that L. L. Bean, Sears, and Roebuck were all men. Men don't like to shop. If a man can't foist the job off on some woman, he will grit his teeth and plan the outing as he would a jungle expedition. He wants a map of the store showing where he has to go to get item X in @@ -6414,7 +6414,7 @@ But at present, the other side's winning. % Going into politics is as fatal to a gentleman as going into a bordello is fatal to a virgin. - -- H.L. Mencken, "A Carnival of Buncombe" + -- H. L. Mencken, "A Carnival of Buncombe" % Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields Sold in a market down in New Orleans @@ -6493,7 +6493,7 @@ you, Comrade Sun!". Once more the great voice boomed out, "Fuck you, asshole! I'm in the West now!" % Grain grows best in shit. - -- U.K. LeGuin + -- U. K. LeGuin % Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks. % @@ -6665,7 +6665,7 @@ attempts... though it is doubtful that he was so sexually carnivorous as the Christian and Jewish Adam, who, rabbinical interpreters of the Old Testament tell us, had intercourse with every creature before God finally hit upon the idea of woman and created Eve. - -- R.E. Masters + -- R. E. Masters % Having lost his potency years before, the octogenarian was desperate to satisfy his new 18-year-old wife. He visited a gypsy woman with magical @@ -7305,7 +7305,7 @@ horny, adj: Horsecrap, little brother. There's always something more to be done. Another palm to be greased. Another back to be scratched. Another weak sister to be shored up. - -- J.R. Ewing + -- J. R. Ewing % HOT TUB TIPS FOR WOMEN Vol. I -- Etiquette @@ -7438,7 +7438,7 @@ I don't discriminate on the basis of sex. [An equal opportunity lover? Ed.] % I don't drink water; fish fuck in it. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % I don't give a shit what happens. I want you all to stonewall it. Let them plead the Fifth Amendment, cover up, or anything else if it'll save @@ -7473,7 +7473,7 @@ one of nature's sweet pleasures, and so handy. % I don't understand what all the fuss was about in Los Angeles. It's not like we looted Brooks Brothers when Oliver North got off. - -- P.J. O'Rourke + -- P. J. O'Rourke % I don't want to say that she had big tits, but one day I asked her just how big they was, and she said, "7 and 7/8". @@ -7561,7 +7561,7 @@ By the tricks that he makes his foreskin do. % I know what you're up to, you white-feathered fiend! Go release your bowels on some lesser personage! - -- W.C. Fields, upon seeing a bird overhead + -- W. C. Fields, upon seeing a bird overhead % I know why the sun never sets on the British Empire -- God wouldn't trust an Englishman in the dark. @@ -8045,7 +8045,7 @@ very goyish. Trailer parks are so goyish that Jews won't go near them. -- Lenny Bruce % I'm never through with a girl until I've had her three ways. - -- J.F. Kennedy + -- J. F. Kennedy % I'm not a pheasant plucker, I'm a pheasant plucker's son. @@ -8427,7 +8427,7 @@ They can kiss that shit goodbye. % It was a female that drove me to drink and I didn't even have the kindness to thank her. - -- R.E. Baber + -- R. E. Baber % It was a warm, sunny Sunday, and a man and his wife decided to take in the zoo. They spent the day, and at closing time they walked past the gorilla cage, and @@ -9084,7 +9084,7 @@ Love is just for now ... herpes lasts forever. % Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin -- it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring. - -- S.J. Perelman + -- S. J. Perelman % Love is two minutes and fifty-two seconds of squishy sounds. -- Johnny Rotten @@ -9512,7 +9512,7 @@ My mothers are wholly ignorant of the almost universal prevalence of secret vice, or self-abuse, among the young. Why hesitate to say firmly and without quibble that personal abuse lies at the root of much of the feebleness, paleness, nervousness, and good-for-nothingness of the entire community? - -- Dr. J.H. Kellogg, "The Ladies Guide", Modern Medicine + -- Dr. J. H. Kellogg, "The Ladies Guide", Modern Medicine Publishing Company, 1895. Dr. Kellogg helped invent corn flakes and peanut butter. In addition to denouncing masturbation, he believed that smoking caused cancer and @@ -11792,7 +11792,7 @@ Sex is nobody's business but the three people involved. Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer. % Sex is the poor man's opera. - -- G.B. Shaw + -- G. B. Shaw % Sex is what women have and men want. % @@ -12981,7 +12981,7 @@ prohibitive, and the position ridiculous. -- Disraeli, on sex % The plural of spouse is spice. - -- R.A. Heinlein + -- R. A. Heinlein % The police were investigating the mysterious death of a prominent businessman who had jumped from a window of his 11th story office. His voluptuous private @@ -13413,7 +13413,7 @@ a bitch, you ate five of them. % There are so many people wanting a piece of my ass that some of them are having to take turns. - -- T.K. + -- T. K. % There are some things we mustn't expose, So we hide them away in our clothes. @@ -14332,7 +14332,7 @@ I need someone to protect But I'm not waiting on a lady -- Rolling Stones, "Waiting on a Friend" % Water? Never touch the stuff! Fish fuck in it. - -- W.C. Fields + -- W. C. Fields % We ... make the modern error of dignifying the Individual. We do everything we can to butter him up. We give him a name, assure him that he has certain @@ -14862,7 +14862,7 @@ When somebody protested at [Pope Alexander VI's] wholesale distribution of pardons for the most heinous crimes -- one of which included the murder of a daughter by the father -- he retorted easily, "It is not God's will that a sinner should die, but that he should live -- and pay." - -- E.R. Chamberlin, "The Bad Popes" + -- E. R. Chamberlin, "The Bad Popes" Judas sold Christ for 30 denari, this man [Pope Alexander VI] would sell him for 29. diff --git a/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick b/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick index 42328163567..85e6ccae06c 100644 --- a/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick +++ b/games/fortune/datfiles/limerick @@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ Said, I'm the match for any machine. My secret's aversion, To loops and recursion, Just acres of in-line routine. - -- W.J. Wilson + -- W. J. Wilson % A progressive professor named Winners Held classes each evening for sinners. @@ -3258,7 +3258,7 @@ Who strung himself up with a cord Said he, of his work (Ere the rope snapped with a jerk) "I am leaving because I am bored." - - E.A. Guest + -- E. A. Guest % There was a young lad named McFee Who was stung in the balls by a bee @@ -4731,7 +4731,7 @@ Who was stung in the arm by a wasp. When asked, "Does it hurt?" He relied, "No, it doesn't. I'm so glad that it wasn't a hornet." - -- W.S. Gilbert + -- W. S. Gilbert % There was an old man of Tagore Whose tool was a yard long or more, |