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New quotes for Fri Mar 16
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Mar 16 01:33:47 1990
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 90 01:32:03 EST
From: root@CHARON.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@BLOOM-BEACON.MIT.EDU
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celine (Robert Fullmer):
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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goran (Goran Arbanas):
Party, party, party, and last but not least, party.
Let me repeat myself: party.
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gurfinkl (Mariano E Gurfinkel):
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jik (Jonathan I. Kamens):
Entertaining NetNews signatures, number 1 in a series:
--
Richard Harter, SMDS Inc. [Disclaimers not permitted by company policy.]
[I set company policy.]
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montreal (It's just Toby):
How about some good news for a change? Something to consider
when you are in a people-are-no-damn-good mood?
Here's a phrase we hear a lot: "You can't trust anybody
anymore." Doctors and politicians and merchants and salesmen. They're
all out to rip you off, right?
It ain't necessarily so.
Man named Steven Brill tested the theory. In New York City,
with taxicab drivers. Brill posed as a well-to-do foreigner with
little knowledge of English. He got into several dozen taxis around
New York City to see how many drivers would cheat him. His friends
predicted in advance that most would take advantage of him in some
way.
One driver out of thirty-seven cheated him. The rest took him
directly to his destination and charged him correctly. Several
refused to take him when his destination was only a block or two away,
even getting out of their cabs to show him how close he already was.
The greatest irony of all was that several drivers warned him that New
York City was full of crooks and to be careful.
You will continue to read stories of crookedness and
corruption -- of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where
they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are
news because they are the exceptions. The evidence suggests that you
can trust a lot more people than you think. The evidence suggests
that a lot of people believe that . A recent survey by Gallup
indicates that 70 percent of the people believe that most people can
be trusted most of the time.
Who says people are no damn good? What kind of talk is that?
-- Robert Fulghum --
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motto (Mary V Motto):
Hey!
whatsup?
I decided my plan was totally geeky so I'm writting a new one (as you can see)
hmmm... whatsup in my life...
I could be a real imbecile and say "the sky"
well I'm dain bamaged, so........
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rlcarr (Animato):
Note:
_The Wizard of Speed and Time_ now has 21 total votes in the rec.arts.movies
rating poll. If it gets to 30, it will be included in the Top/Bottom Ten
list. So, if you haven't already voted, send in your vote. Maybe WoS&T will
make it by next week.
To vote for _The Wizard of Speed and Time_ (or any movie, for that matter) send
email to:
movies@trantor.harris-atd.com
Each line in the BODY of your message (subject line is irrelevant) can contain
one vote. Each line should be in the form:
vote n Title of Movie
'vote' must be the first thing on the line.
where n is an INTEGER from 1 to 10, 1=BAD, 10=GOOD, i.e.
vote 10 Wizard of Speed and Time, The
vote 1 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
All tabulation is done automagically, no human sees your votes. The
results are posted on rec.arts.movies every week. Over 2000 movies have
been rated.
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sed (Scott Evan Decatur):
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