[2151] in Central_America
New quotes for Thu Jan 25
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Jan 25 01:45:08 1990
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 90 01:44:37 EST
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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alchen (Alice L Chen):
People have been saying that my .plan is a bit depressing, so I guess I'll do
something of a lighter note for a while... :) The normal stuff will return later, for people who still want it:
KIND OF AN ODE TO DUTY
Ogden Nash
O Duty,
Why hast thou not the visage of a sweetie or a cutie?
Why glitter thy spectacles so ominously?
Why art thou clad so abominously?
Why art thou so different from Venus
And why do thou and I have so few interests mutually in common between us?
Why art thou fifty percent martyr
And fifty-one percent Tartar?
Why is it thy unfortunate wont
To try to attract people by calling on them either to leave undone the deeds
they like, or to do the deeds they don't?
Why art thou so like an April post-mortem
Or something that died in the ortumn?
Above all, why dost thou continue to hound me?
Why art thou always albatrossly hanging around me?
Thou so ubiquitous,
And I so iniquitous.
I seem to be the one person in the world thou art perpetually preaching at who or to who;
Whatever looks like fun, there art thou standing between me and it, calling
yoo-hoo.
O Duty, Duty!
How noble a man should I be hadst thou the visage of a sweetie or a cutie!
But as it is thou art so much forbiddinger than a Wodehouse hero's
forbiddingest aunt
That in the words of the poet, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, this
erstwhile youth replies, I just can't.
=============================================================================== AN EPITAPH (TWOPENCE COLOURED, PENNY PLAIN)
Colin Ellis
He worshipped at the altar of Romance
(Tried to seduce a woman half his age)
And dared to stake his fortune of a chance
(Gambled away his children's heritage).
He valued only what the world held cheap
(Refused to work, from laziness and pride):
Dreams were his refuge and he welcomed sleep
(He failed in business, took to drink, and died).
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celine (Who Drugged Thumper?):
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two. One to hold the girrafe and the other to fill the bathtub with
brightly colored machine tools.
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jiktest (Jik Test):
{From system: This user's .plan file is a symlink!}
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jtduran (Jason T. Duran):
Last logout on Thu Jan 25 00:01:50 EST 1990
Nothing in the world can take place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan `Press On` has solved and always will solve the
problems of the human race.
-Calvin Coolidge
Amherst Fiji `94
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lwvanels (Lucien Van Elsen):
I am not a number - I am a free man!
-- The Prisoner
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needle (Joseph):
One hen.
Two ducks.
Three squawking geese.
Four Limerick oysters.
Five corpulent porpoises.
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ponz (Stephen J Ponzio):
Send mail to sjp@tds.lcs.mit.edu.
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singer (Andrew C Singer):
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srz (Stanley R Zanarotti):
All our young lives we search for someone to love,
someone who makes us complete.
We choose partners, and change partners.
We dance to a song of heartbreak and hope,
all the while wondering if somewhere, somehow,
there's someone perfect who might be searching for us.
"Wonder Years"
--- End of Central America ---
