It is said that the civilized man seeks out good and intelligent company, so that by learned discourse, he may rise above the savage, and be closer to God. Personally, however, I like to start the day with a total dickhead to remind me that I'm best.
-- Edmund, Lord Blackadder (Blackadder II)
Friday, July 31, 2009
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
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Criminals are never very amusing. It's because they're failures. Those who make real money aren't counted as criminals. This is a class distinction, not an ethical problem.
-- Orson Welles
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
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A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
-- William S. Burroughs
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
-- H.L. Mencken
Monday, July 27, 2009
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In the year 415, the woman scientist Hypatia, head of the legendary Alexandria library, was beaten to death by Christian monks who considered her a pagan. The leader of the monks, Cyril, was canonized a saint
-- James A. Haught (Free Inquiry, Winter 1996/1997)
Sunday, July 26, 2009
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Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
-- Mark Twain
Saturday, July 25, 2009
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Mr. Bush is the latest in a string of Republican "Photo-Presidents." Mr. Nixon was the last guy clearly in command, and his people dutifully followed him off the Watergate cliff, like grateful lemmings in grey suits. Mr. Ford, Mr. Reagan, Bushes 41 and 43 clearly are just front men, and all have been fully "staffed," which is wonkspeak for "committee leadership." Imagine ten shady characters actually calling the shots backstage. They have the combined net worth of South America, and the combined IQ of Dan Quayle.
-- B. Rehak
Friday, July 24, 2009
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Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away.
-- Sir Thomas Beecham
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
-- Frank Zappa
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
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I can't believe Liberace was gay! Women loved him! I didn't see that one coming.
-- Austin Powers
Monday, July 20, 2009
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Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, July 19, 2009
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Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so.
-- Benjamin Franklin (Poor Richard's Almanack, 1743)
Saturday, July 18, 2009
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Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
-- Joseph Heller (Catch-22)
Friday, July 17, 2009
Thursday, July 16, 2009
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I'll handle this... the only danger in space is if we land on the terrible Planet of the Apes... wait a minute. Statue of Liberty... THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!
-- Homer J. Simpson
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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It's true that every time you hear a bell, an angel gets its wings. But what they don't tell you is that every time you hear a mouse trap snap, and Angel gets set on fire.
-- Jack Handey
Monday, July 13, 2009
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
-- Richard P. Feynman
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Saturday, July 11, 2009
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I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities. But I've forgotten what it is. I have it written down at home somewhere.
-- David Byrne (True Stories)
Friday, July 10, 2009
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I would recommend that skeptics devote even more effort than they do now to understanding the reasons why so many people want or need to believe.
-- Murray Gell-Mann
Thursday, July 09, 2009
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Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose: it's how drunk you get.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
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... C++ offers even more flexible control over the visibility of member objects and member functions. Specifically, members may be placed in the public, private, or protected parts of a class. Members declared in the public parts are visible to all clients; members declared in the private parts are fully encapsulated; and members declared in the protected parts are visible only to the class itself and its subclasses. C++ also supports the notion of *friends*: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.
-- Grady Booch, "Object Oriented Design with Applications"
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
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It ain't supposed to make sense; it's faith. Faith is something that you believe that nobody in his right mind would believe.
-- Archie Bunker
Monday, July 06, 2009
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This so-called "new religion" is nothing but a pack of weird rituals and chants, designed to take away the money of fools. Let us say the Lord's Prayer 40 times, but first, let's pass the collection plate!
-- Reverend Timothy Lovejoy
Sunday, July 05, 2009
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And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!
-- The Tick
Saturday, July 04, 2009
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Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
-- Jack Handey
Week in Review
Friday, July 03, 2009
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My mother didn't breast-feed me. She said she liked me as a friend.
-- Rodney Dangerfield
Thursday, July 02, 2009
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New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
-- David Letterman
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
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We are using Linux daily to UP our productivity - so UP yours!
-- Adapted from Pat Paulsen by Joe Sloan
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