[960] in Central_America
New quotes for Mon Oct 3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Mon Oct 3 02:38:27 1988
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 88 01:31:09 EDT
From: Initializer.SysDaemon <root@CHARON.MIT.EDU>
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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capsalad (Dave Schulman):
I will do this work I see before me, pointing gravely.
I will suffer from the manifold pains of the world.
I feel the mountains pressing Atlas down.
I will forget how to swim when it is important to know.
I will say nothing.
I will swallow it all.
I wait.
Isopropyl alcohol leaves no residue when it evaporates.
I wait for it to be over.
I will be Driven Down.
And I will watch, I will be aware; I know that it is a nobler thing,
a more honorable thing, to acknowledge defeat-in-mortality than to waste
energy fighting that long heavy arm, the lever on which we turn. I know
now that the source of my power is also the means of my ruin, that those
who profit from my outflung substance are no better or worse than I am,
small and without lasting value, comfortless rodents scampering among
bones, without substance or limit, irrevocably and likewise
Gone.
Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.
Is it me?
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dschmidt (Dan Schmidt):
To stay up all night in the pouring rain outside of Fenway Park to get Red
Sox playoff tickets.
Before anyone calls me nuts: I totally agree with you.
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jmh (J Michael Hammond):
Getting out of Texas on 16 December, 1988.
My next job: Systems Duty Officer at the AF Global Weather
Center. Not sure exactly what it is, but it sounds a lot
like a sysop job.
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"I'm on the case, can't be fooled.
Any objection is overruled.
Yes I'm the arbiter, I know what's best.
(He's impartial, don't push him, he's unimpressed.)
You've got your tricks, good for you,
But there's no gimmick I don't see through.
Oh I'm the arbiter, I know the score:
From Square One I'll be watching all sixty-four."
-The Arbiter's Song, from "Chess"
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Obnoxious Quote of the Month:
"...and I think these people deserve recognition for
maintaining their performance at a world-class
graduate institution like Texas A&M."
-a high-ranking military official
whose impartiality is, of course,
above question.
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jtkohl (John T Kohl):
Attempting a return to reality now that _Border_ is over.
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rsargent (Amazing Wonderdog):
'Prity vunny ow we duz deze tings we never wanna bifore juzt cuz
somebuddy prity duz'em! Uh? Uh?'
-Steve Swann
'You're sort of a genius, anyway...'
-Dave Oberman
'That Angela Putney is one hot little number, isn't she?'
-Dave Oberman
'Randy, if you put that in your .plan file you're a real asshole.'
- Dave Oberman
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snowdog (Richard the Nerd):
Just some words:
Now at last I stand before
The Fountain of Lamnteth
I thought I would be singing
But I'm tired, out of breath;
Many journeys end here,
But the secret's told the same
Life is but a candle
And the dream must give it flame.
[RUSH, The Fountain]
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wisner (Bill Wisner):
"Ford! There's an infinite number of monkeys outside who want
to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked out."
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