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New quotes for Tue Feb 19
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Tue Feb 19 01:30:43 1991
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 91 01:29:48 EST
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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debbo (Deborah A Birnby):
almost anyone can learn to think or believe or
know, but not a single human being can be
taught to be. why?
because whenever you think or believe or know,
you are a lot of other people, but the moment you are being
you are nobody but yourself.
to be nobody but yourself -- in a world which is doing
its best night and day to make you everybody else --
means to fight the hardest battle any human being
can fight, and never stop fighting....
does this sound dismal? it isn't. it's the
most wonderful life on earth.
-e e cummings
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
I know you think that you're safe, Sister / Harmless affection
That keeps things this way / It's the ones who persist for the sake of a kiss
Who will pay
Cowboys and angels / They all take a shine to you
Why should I imagine / That I was designed for you
Why should I believe / That you would stay...
--George Michael, "Cowboys and Angels", _Listen Without Prejudice_
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jfc (John F Carr):
To find the part of my mind where I buried knowledge of methods of
solving ugly differential equations. I know it's in there somewhere,
unless it leaked out while I was sleeping.
Quotes of the day:
I don't know what to DO!
(4.3R /usr/bin/make)
Next time anyone starts to say "hey, this is too complicated
for, say, a secretary, to use!" remember who explained the company
phone system you still don't understand to you.
(Barry Shein, alt.religion.computers, Feb 16 1991)
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kagraves (Kenneth A Graves):
Article 65947 (20 more) in rec.music.misc:
From: helmke@cps.msu.edu (Scott A Helmke)
(SAME) Subject: Re: Theremin
>|> The Theremin is one of the earliest electronic instruments,
>|> invented in the 20's by the Russian scientist Leon Theremin.
I don't know if they *still* make them, I know they were in the
70's, since my high school electronic music lab had one. They can
be built very small, ours was a 4" box with antenna clips on the side.
One day, one of the guys (real loose class, mind you) plugged it into
this HeathKit guitar amp that was lying around, turned up the reverb,
tremelo, and volume, and played it with the door open. I think he
had a screwdriver as the antenna. A few minutes later, somebody came
down from the offices (3 halls and several hundred yards away) to
complain about the noise! Sounded like puppy torturing.
Now THERE's a sound to build a band around...
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lnp (Lisa N Paradis):
In the future:
2/15 Triple date
2/16 gown hunting with my maid of honor (finding *her* gown)
2/16 putting a deposit down on the hall
2/18 arranging some music for brass quintet
2/19 6.033 report 2 due
2/21 1.101 ASSESS assignment due
2/21 1.101 problem set 2 due
2/23 MIT Concert Band Tour Finale Concert
2/27 :-)
3/1 interview with Consulting for Management Decisions
3/1 Brass Ensemble stuff with WCRB
3/2 Brass Ensemble concert at Symphony Hall
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Words-n-stuff for the day:
Today's secret word is Thor.
Thor \'tho.(*)r\ n [ON Tho-rr] : the god of thunder in Norse mythology
represented as armed with a hammer
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orwant (Jonathan L. Orwant):
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sethg (Seth A. Gordon):
i think this is originally monty python...
REGARDING Football: Philosphers vs. Biblical Figures
Ok, it's the fourth quarter of this great game. The philophers are
receiving the kickoff, now tied with the biblical figures after a fine
touchdown credited to Jesus where Jesus ran from the 20 to the 21 and then let
Paul carry it the rest of the way. Aristotle has received the kickoff, but
what's this--he's running from one side of the field to the other, then forward
a yard, then back to the other side, then forward another yard. I can't tell
for sure if he's really going anywhere, but nobody's touching him.
Wait--Hobbes is running at him; Hobbes is poking him in the eye, Hobbes is
attacking his own teammate and has taken the ball, he's doing anything to gain
yards--oh no, he's run smack into God, he's down hard; I guess the ends don't
justify the means.
Sartre is hiking to Camus, Camus is back to pass, wait, he's not looking
around the field, he's just laughing at the ridiculousness of the game, and
Jonah has stolen the ball from him! Bad break for the philosophers.
The hike is to God, he hands off to Job, and Heidigger has stolen Job's
helmet, now Nietzche is punching him, and the refs are just laughing at him,
nobody is trying to block him, wow! he's been smashed by a great hit by Rawls,
now God is coming over, saying "you useless wimp," and God just tackled his own
teammate.
God is back for the hike on second down, he hands to Lazurus, who gain a
yard, and is tackled, no he's up; no, now he's down; no, he's up again; no,
he's down; he's up, no, he's down. We're looking at third and long, handoff
to Noah, he's running into trouble, but wait, Moses has parted the defenders,
he has a first down!
First and ten at the 45, God's back, he hands to Jesus, and Jesus is
absolutely leveled. He looks really hurt. Second down, handoff to Peter, the
whole philospher's team is coming right at him, he's going to get pummelled,
but wait--he says "fuck this" and hands the ball to Jesus--Jesus is pounded
again, he's really getting crucified out there. He's being carried off the
field. No word yet on the seriousness of the injury.
Third down, God's in the shotgun, the hike, God's looking, he's found an open
man, he's about to pass, but Nietzche's broken through the offensive line, he's
attacking God, and God is down!! God is not moving, he may be hurt, wait,
Nietzche is chanting something, it's hard to make out, I think he's saying
"YOU'RE DEAD! YOU'RE DEAD! YOU'RE DEAD!" But there is some good news, Jesus
will be able to play again in three days.
Fourth down, the Holy Ghost is filling in for God at quarterback, nobody
knows the difference anyway. This is a key play folks. Here's the hike, he's
back, he passes, and it's intercepted by Zeno! He's to the fourty, the twenty,
the ten, the five, the two point five, the one point two five, the point six
two five, and the game is called on account of the irreconcilable paradox.
What a game!
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sker (Mic.O.):
To open the sky.
For the steel grey traps me.
Waiting for a storm to churn the sky into bright blue again.
Waiting.
I leave my jacket open as I am alone on the crowded street.
The icy gusts remind me I am alive.
But the wind feels me, and leaves me.
Sweet and fleeting.
...I knew another caress once...
&&& No regrets for the past
&&& only regretting the future.
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therese (Suntioinen Therese M.):
Why are these women here dancing on their own?
Why is there this sadness in their eyes?
Why are the soldiers here
Their faces fixed like stone?
I can't see what it is that they despise
They're dancing with the missing
They're dancing with the dead
They dance with the invisible ones
Their anguish is unsaid
They're dancing with their fathers
They're dancing with their sons
They're dancing with their husbands
They dance alone. They dance alone.
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tritan (Holden Caulfield):
There's a wonderful thing about Tiggers,
A Tigger's a wonderful thing.
Their tops are made out of rubber.
Their bottoms are made out of spring.
They're bouncy, flouncy, trouncy, pouncy
Fun, fun, fun, fun, fun!
The most wonderful, wonderful thing about
Tiggers is I'm the only one.
I'm... the only one! Grrr...
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wdempsey (Wayne R Dempsey):
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