[2597] in Central_America
New quotes for Thu Jul 26
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Thu Jul 26 01:23:47 1990
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 90 01:23:14 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
celine (Robert Fullmer):
Hello hello, from sunny _dry_ Stanford, California.
About Dave Moore (a late friend of mine):
"Sometimes when you trip, you fall..."
Anybody got an account on Portia I can borrow for a week?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
horiuchi (Junjiro Horiuchi):
"Wagahai wa neko de aru"
Logged out last from m16-034-17 at Wed Jul 25 14:57:52 EDT 1990.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is such a scream.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
jrock (Jonathan E Rockman):
'It is a grey and a lonely place in which we live, all of us, swinging
between desperation and emptiness, and all that makes it worthwhile is
caring, is beauty. But if there were no opposite for beauty, or for
pleasure, it would all turn to dust.'
-- Harlan Ellison
'...and therefore did god create MIT.'
-- me
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Returning to the US via Australia...not at all expected, and of indeterminate
length
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
rlcarr (Animato):
SHIRLEY'S LAW:
Most people deserve each other.
ARTHUR'S LAWS OF LOVE:
1. People to who you are attracted invariably think you remind them
of someone else.
2. The love letter you finally got the courage to send will be delayed in
the mail long enough for you to make a fool of yourdelf in person.
3. Other people's romantic gestures seem novel and exciting.
Your own romantic gestures seem foolish and clumsy.
DENNISTON'S LAW:
Virtue is its own punishment.
1ST LAW OF LABORATORY WORK:
Hot glass looks the same as cold glass.
ROCHE'S FIFTH LAW:
Every American crusade winds up as a racket.
THE THREE LEAST CREDIBLE SENTENCES IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE:
1. The check is in the mail.
2. Of course I'll respect you in the morning.
3. I'm from the government and I'm here to help you.
THE LAST LAW:
If several things that could have gone wrong have not gone wrong, it
would have been ultimately beneficial for them to have gone wrong.
[sources: Murphy's Law: Books One, Two, and Three, Arthur Bloch, ed.]
--- End of Central America ---
