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New quotes for Mon Jan 16
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Jan 16 02:26:44 1989
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 89 02:27:33 EST
From: Initializer.SysDaemon <root@CHARON.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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celine (Adam Weishaupt):
Death. At least. Perhaps my own?
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cheshire (Mary Vogt):
The search for perfection
Is all very well
But to look for a heaven
Is to live here in hell...
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cpc (Christopher P. Colby):
I shall begin by learning to throw
the knife, first at trees, until it sticks
in the trunk and quivers every time;
next from a chair, using only wrist
and fingers, at a thing on the ground,
a fresh ant hill or a fallen leaf;
then at a moving object, perhaps
a pieplate swinging on twine, until
I pot it at least twice in three tries.
Meanwhile, I shall be teaching the birds
that the skinny fellow in sneakers
is a source of suet and bread crumbs,
first putting them on a shingle nailed
to a pine tree, next scattering them
on the needles, closer and closer
to my seat, until the proper bird,
a towhee, I think, in black and rust
and gray, takes tossed crumbs six feet away.
Finally, I shall coordinate
conditioned reflex and functional
form and qualify as Modern Man.
You see the splash of blood and feathers
and the blade pinning it to the tree?
It's called an "Audubon Crucifix."
The phrase has pleasing (even pious)
connotations, like "Arbeit Macht Frei",
"Molotov Cocktail", and "Enola Gay".
- Donald W. Baker
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jcb (Jeff Bigler):
From a bumper sticker:
It's not whether you pick your nose,
it's what you do with the boogers.
It's not whether you pick your nose,
it's what you do with the boogers.
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
Tomorrow is another day
(Or so they say.)
Time really flies
(How could it do otherwise?)
Love is blind
(So everyone respond in kind.)
Why must I make these silly rhymes?
(Oh, just to kill the time.)
Why must I be in love?
(I am as silly as a dove.)
Why do I see my life flashing before my eyes?
(Why, of course! Because time flies!)
Why do I always wait for tomorrow?
(Today usually brings too much sorrow.)
Well, thus ends my excursion into poetry.
I'll do it again, or not, for a small fee.
:-) ...Julie...
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raeburn (Ken Raeburn):
Bleh.
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rosencra (John R Buck):
Don't you miss it.
Don't you miss it.
Some of you people just about missed it.
-"Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)",
Talking Heads, _Remain in Light_
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swmpthng (Timothy J Stellmach):
Remember:
Up and down: never across.
The correct way to brush your teeth (or slash your wrists, whatever).
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tytso (Theodore Y. Ts'o):
In article <26140@sri-unix.SRI.COM> trent@unix.sri.com (Ray Trent) writes:
>They can only handle so much truth. (reminds me of a Caltech anecdote...
>suffice it to say that T-shirts are printed periodically that have
>the Caltech motto (the truth shall make you free) replaced with "the
>truth shall rape you over")
As far as I know, this change first appeared in the early '70's at
Caltech, and was initiated by one Mark Parisi. He took a Caltech
sweatshirt and changed the reading of the motto as written above.
He also changed the hand holding the torch in the center to a hand
giving "the finger" sign. I believe that the inspiration had
something to do with the first midterms of his freshman year.
End of article 38993 (of 39287)--what next? [^Nnpq]
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