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From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations,alt.fan.douglas-adams
Subject: Re: Who said this?
Date: 26 Dec 92 04:08:30 GMT
Organization: Spam-On-A-Rope Inc.
In-reply-to: cscmd@lux.latrobe.edu.au's message of 26 Dec 92 01:34:42 GMT

In article <1992Dec26.013442.15230@lugb.latrobe.edu.au> cscmd@lux.latrobe.edu.au (Mitch Davis) writes:

>From somewhere in the HitchHiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
>
>"I'm only doing it because I like your robot"
>
>Who said this, and where?  It's been bugging me all week, and I can't
>find out where it was.

Zaphod is in the Hitchhiker's Guide offices, trying to get to Zarniwoop's
office, but the elevator refuses to take him up because it can see dimly
into the future (so it knows when to be on which floor to pick you up), and
whatever it sees terrifies it.  Zaphod tells Marvin to "just get this elevator
to go up, will you?...".  Then the narrator explains the elevator's prognos-
ticatory abilities, and then the elevator arrives on the fifteenth floor.
The elevator says "Fifteenth, and remember I'm only doing this because I
like your robot", and promptly slams its doors shut and drops for the base-
ment.  

Oh- this takes place in _The Restaurant at the End of the Universe_, the 
second book, and originally appeared in the second series of the radio show.

--
-Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -unknown
From: alan@lancaster.nsc.com (The Hepburn)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: some Twain quotes
Keywords: mark twain, samuel clemens, quotes
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:05:36 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation

Some more Mark Twain gems:

"I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because
I have got so much more of it."


"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you like."



-- 
Alan Hepburn           "An ignorant person is one who doesn't know
National Semiconductor       what you have just found out."
Santa Clara, Ca              
alan@berlioz.nsc.com                              Will Rogers
From: mpc+@pitt.edu (Mike Contento)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Quotes about religion,politics,guns,etc.
Date: 29 Dec 92 17:22:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh

>From: georged@meaddata.com (George Dibos)
>In article <1195@blue.cis.pitt.edu>, mpc+@pitt.edu (Mike Contento) writes:
|> [mike contento] There can be no surer sign of decay in a country
|> [univ.of pgh. ] than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
|> [mpc+@pitt.edu]               - Niccolo Machiavelli  (1469-1527)

>There is no surer sign of mental incapacity than someone who embraces
>wishful thinking as fact...
>Please take your masturbatory, evangelical crap to one of the groups
>created for the purpose.  
 
 Hmmm, this IS alt.quotations is it not ? Those WERE quotations were they not?
 Oh, I see, quotations about the devil are OK, but those about God are not?
 Should Woody Allen quotes be taken to the movies newsgroup, the Steven Wright
 quotes to the rec.humor newsgroup, the presidential quotes to the alt.politics
 newsgroup? 

   
-- 
[mike contento] "He who proselytizes in the cause of unbelief is 
[univ. of pgh.]  basically a man in need of belief."
[mpc+@pitt.edu]                                    - Eric Hoffer
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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Genghis Khan
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 04:32:20 GMT

jpacker@willamette.edu (Jason Packer) writes:
>I'm not sure about this one, but there is a fine quotation from "Conan the      Barbarian" about such things...it goes something like (but probably not exactly
>like) this:
>	"Conan, what are the best things in life?"

>	"To vanquish your enemies, see them driven before you, and hear
>	 the lamentation of their women!"

Jenna: I don't suppose anything hurts you...
Conan: Only pain.

-- 
Why did the politician cross the road?  To get to the middle.
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From: mattb@microsoft.com (Matt Bamberger)
Subject: Re: Quotations regardin The Devil
Date: 24 Dec 92 00:33:29 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Distribution: usa

I was brought up in that other service; but I knew from the first that
the Devil was my natural master and captain and friend.  I saw that he
was in the right, and that the world cringed to his conqueror only
from fear.
	George Bernard Shaw, _The Devil's Disciple_
-- 
Matt Bamberger                    "Blood brothers in the stormy night
Microsoft Corporation              with a vow to defend.
Excel Development                  No retreat, baby, no surrender!"
"RECALC OR DIE!"                              -Bruce Springsteen
From: zaphod@src4src.linet.org (Steve Wechsler)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Tolkien revised
Date: 31 Dec 92 19:45:19 GMT
Organization: The Source for Source

In article <1992Dec31.031545.16128@atlantis.uucp> aaron@atlantis.uucp writes:

>"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to
>anger."  --Tolkien

Seen on a button at a con (Boskone, probably):

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for you are crunchy and good
with ketchup."
-- 
Steve Wechsler | zaphod@src4src.linet.org    |    Call Lady Hawke's Castle BBS:
Please respond to my posts via e-mail (post also if you like) |  (516) 226-4630
because my site purges news much faster than I can keep up with it.
"Watch??  I'm gonna pray, man!  Know any good religions?" -- Zaphod Beeblebrox
From: haavardf@boson.uio.no (Haavard Fosseng)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Sturgeon's Law?
Date: 30 Dec 92 23:23:07 GMT
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway

The version I've heard, is that Sturgeon said to someone:

90% of Science Fiction is crap. On the other hadn, 90% of _everything_
is crap.


H}vard Fosseng
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From: Mike.Oniffrey@launchpad.unc.edu (Mike Oniffrey)
Subject: Re: Explain this group
Organization: University of North Carolina Extended Bulletin Board Service
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 23:41:07 GMT

In article <BzMGM1.C73.2@cs.cmu.edu> Karl_Kleinpaste@cs.cmu.edu writes:
>columbus@strident.think.com writes:
>      ObQuote:  Anything humanly conceivable has already, or is at this very
>		moment, occuring somewhere on this planet or elsewhere in the
>		cosmos.

Not to belabor the point, but one should get attributions, especially in a
newsgroup like alt.QUOTATIONS, correctly; I made the silly above quote,
NOT columbus@strident.think.com... 

onif

mike.oniffrey@launchpad.unc.edu
is Mike Oniffrey at NC Public TV, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
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From: michaels@psg.com (Michael Sandy)
Subject: Re: <None>
Organization: Pacific Systems Group, Portland Oregon US
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 01:09:28 GMT

In article <rdippold.725955589@cancun> rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
>glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier) writes:
>
>>Vidi, Vici, Veni
>>(I saw, I conquered, I came)
>
>Veni, VD, Vici - I came, I sored, I cankered
>
>Veni, Vidi, VCR -  I came, I saw, I taped

Let us not forget the immortal:
Veni, Vidi, VISA -  I came, I saw, I bought
or:
Veni, Vidi, Vicit - I came, I saw, She (He) Conquered

or, a little bit of a stretch:
Vidi, Veni, Vigui - I saw, I came, I thrived
(From vigeo, vigere, vigui : To thrive, be vigorous, flourish)

Time to review the Perfect Subjunctive Passive forms...


-- 
Michael Sandy
michaels@m2xenix.psg.com
"I resolve to make no non-tautological New Year's Resolutions!"
From: stanworthdjh@vax1.bham.ac.uk (Dave <Rubicon>)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Money (was: Abstractions)
Date: 23 Dec 92 22:19:51 GMT
Organization: University of Birmingham
NNTP-Posting-Host: vax1.bham.ac.uk


     Make money, money, honestly if you can;
         if not, by any means at all, make money.

                               Quintus Horatius Flaccus [Horace]
                                  65BC - 8BC

-- 
.sig deleted due to good taste
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From: rinelljv@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Joe Rinella)
Subject: Re: Slick Willie
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 17:08:57 GMT

In article <1992Dec22.015808.5831@quantime.co.uk> roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips) writes:
>In article <1992Dec21.204854.3444@samba.oit.unc.edu>,
>Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi) writes:
>> does anyone remember the exact quote and source for
>> the line about patriotism being the last refuge of the scoundrel?
>
>"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
>-- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784),
>   Boswell's _Life of Johnson_, vol. 2, p. 344 (6 Apr 1775)
>-- 
>Roger Phillips                            roger@quantime.co.uk
>"*Johnsonese* Johnsonian style, idiom, diction, or an imitation of it -
>ponderous English, full of antitheses, balanced triads, and words of
>classical origin" -- Chambers English Dictionary (1988)


"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest thing: The decayed and
 degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing
 worth a war is worse. A man who has nothing for which he is
 willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal
 safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free,
 unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than
 himself." -- John Stuart Mill

"The price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be blood:
 the person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost
 it to the first scoundrel who is willing to risk dying to violate that
 person's liberty. Are you free?" -- Andrew Ford 

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From: hubcap@hubcap.clemson.edu (System Janitor)
Subject: Re: beat this one...
Organization: Clemson University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:46:44 GMT




        In the changing of the times, they were like autumn lightning, a
        thing out of season, an empty promise of rain that would fall unheeded
        on fields already bare.'

                                      - Abe Shosaburo

-Mike
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From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
Subject: Tolkien revised
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 03:15:45 GMT

Apologies if this has shown up before...

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to
anger."  --Tolkien

"Do not throw cigarette butts into the urinals."
   --written in a bathroom
"Yeah, it makes them soggy and hard to light."
   --scrawled beneath

In combination...

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for it makes them soggy and hard to
light."

"Do not throw cigarette butts into the urinals, for they are subtle and quick
to anger."


-- 
---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
"Give me your mirth.  It bores me when you weep.                                 My loves you cannot touch.  They're buried deep."  ---Don Marquis
Current Album--Talking Heads:True Stories
Current Read--Tesseracts4
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From: abl@cybill.inesc.pt (Antonio Leal)
Subject: Re: Quotations regardin The Devil
Organization: INESC - Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores, LISBOA. PORTUGAL.
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 09:33:14 GMT

chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
>
> Anybody have good proverbs/quotations regarding the devil?

My grandfather used to say:

"The devil knows a lot, not because he's the devil, but because he's old."


For sheer whimsicality, I like this one: when it rains lightly and
the sun is shining at the same time, some people will say "The devil
is beating his wife".

--
Antonio B. Leal		| IST / INESC
+351.1.310 0300		| R. Alves Redol 9, 1000 Lisboa
abl@inesc.pt		| Portugal
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From: jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox)
Subject: Re: Quotations regardin The Devil
Reply-To: jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 19:05:02 GMT

In article <Bzo26A.Cv8@rice.edu> garrett@math.rice.edu (David Garrett) writes:
>In article <SVEN.92Dec21205425@ashley.cs.widener.edu> sven@cs.widener.edu (Sven M Heinicke) writes:
>>In article <1h5auqINNi0r@agate.berkeley.edu> chuahl@ocf.berkeley.edu (Chua HakLien) writes:
>>
>>   Anybody have good proverbs/quotations regarding the devil?
>>
>>not really about the devil but:
>>
>>	      "hell can be fun if you want to be there."
>
>	"Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."

  "Hell was not perfect, but compared to New Jersey, it was paradise."
			-James Morrow, ONLY BEGOTTEN DAUGHTER

--
Jonathan Lennox
jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu
From: jmd@bear.com (Josh Diamond)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Einstein
Date: 22 Dec 92 22:07:16 GMT
	<1992Dec22.182356.245@odin.diku.dk>
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. - FAST
In-reply-to: vader@diku.dk's message of 22 Dec 92 18:23:56 GMT


A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part
limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical
delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for
us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

				-- Albert Einstein


The thinking that we are has brought us to where we have already been.
In order to go somewhere else, we must think in a different way.

				-- Albert Einstein





Spidey!!!



--
You don't hunt ducks with a turnip! 

 /\ \  / /\  Josh Diamond                                          jmd@bear.com
//\\ .. //\\ AKA Spidey!!!                        ...!ctr.columbia.edu!ursa!jmd
//\((  ))/\\
/  < `' >  \                                              Do whatever it takes.
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From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
Subject: Re: MST3K
Reply-To: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu
Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 21:43:15 GMT


In article <1hst0gINNa99@bigboote.WPI.EDU>, norbert@wpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy James) writes:
> 
> MST3K = Mystery Science Theatre 3000
> THIS IS BY FAR THE FUNNIEST SHOW ON TV IN THE PAST TEN YEARS!!!!!!
> Find it... watch it... love it...
> You won't be disapointed!

Hear, hear!  I enthusiastically second the above endorsement with no
reservations whatsoever.  Not only is it the funniest show on TV now, but also
the most intelligent and well-researched (and I'll arm-wrestle you to death if
you dare disagree with me), and that too not only in the last 10 years, but
ever since TV began.  It's the source of all those "Joel" and "Crow" and "Tom
Servo" quotes you may have seen floating around on Usenet, as well as the
phrase "What do you think, Sirs?"

Watch it just once, and I guarantee you'll be addicted for life.

-- Rao Akella    <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>

"I want to decide who gets to live and who dies."
				-- Crow's Christmas wish
From: faber@loon.cs.wisc.edu (Ted)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Oh, lighten up!
Date: 28 Dec 92 20:14:00 GMT
Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences

anna@psych.toronto.edu (Anna Filippone) writes:

>And if someone could help me out with another quote, I'd really appreciate
>it.  It was by another comedian, and went something like:
>
>   My Mom always told me that sex was a dirty, ugly, horrible thing that
>   I was only to do with someone I loved.

	How about:
	"I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome
	 things that money can buy." -- Steve Martin

	Not what you asked for but it was a comedian, and about sex :-)
>
>
>Anna

	You've gotta respect someone quoting Donne in their sig....

"Ah! I'll get a hold of that flagpole and jump to safety!"
 <*SNAP*>
 "Ah! I'll bounce off that broad flat surface and be
  in a lot of pain!!!" ---THE TICK

-- 
Ted Faber		Figment at Large		  faber@loon.cs.wisc.edu
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." -- Maugham
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From: good@pixar.com ("If it looks easy, it was difficult.  And vice versa.")
Subject: Re: Veni, Vidi...
Organization: Pixar - Pt. Richmond, CA USA
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:56:17 GMT

:
:Veni, Vidi, VCR -  I came, I saw, I taped

Veni, Vidi, Visa : I came, I saw, I shopped

		--Craig
-- 
	good@pixar.com
	At least Congress doesn't make death worse every year.
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From: mcp@sei.cmu.edu (Mark Paulk)
Subject: Re: Clarke's Laws
Organization: Software Engineering Institute
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 11:51:38 EST


Clarke's laws of scientific prediction.
	1 ) To find the limits of the possible one must go a little way beyond
into the impossible.
	2 ) When an elderly and distinguished scientist says that something is
possible he is almost certainly correct; when he says something is
impossible he is almost certainly wrong.
	3 ) Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from
magic.

Mark C. Paulk
Software Engineering Institute
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
From: mshort@heisenberg.Berkeley.EDU (Michael Short)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Chip Olson signature
Date: 28 Dec 1992 19:44:29 GMT
Organization: ERL, University of California, Berkeley
Distribution: NA
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Keywords: SNL


: -Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu 
: "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
: Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -unknown

First place I saw this was on Saturday Night Live; it's from the running skit
"Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy". I thought I saw a collection of these in a
new book at the store the other day. Maybe he gives the original source there
(IMHO it's far above the quality of most of those "deep thoughts").


Michael
mshort@cs
From: haynes@cats.ucsc.edu (Jim Haynes)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Slick Willie
Date: 23 Dec 1992 06:41:20 GMT
Organization: University of California; Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.ucsc.edu


In article <1992Dec21.204854.3444@samba.oit.unc.edu> Chuck.Lavazzi@launchpad.unc.edu (Chuck Lavazzi) writes:
>
>[political hooey deleted]
>	This reminds me; does anyone remember the exact quote and source for
>the line about patriotism being the last refuge of the scoundrel?
No, but I remember reading in one of the columns in San Francisco Chronicle
that patriotism is the _first_ refuge of scoundrels.

-- 
haynes@cats.ucsc.edu
haynes@cats.bitnet

"Ya can talk all ya wanna, but it's dif'rent than it was!"
"No it aint!  But ya gotta know the territory!"
        Meredith Willson: "The Music Man"
From: sven@cs.widener.edu (Sven M Heinicke)
Newsgroups: alt.quotations
Subject: Re: Shakespeare--available by ftp!
Date: 22 Dec 1992 00:38:36 GMT
Organization: Widener CS Dept
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In-reply-to: jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu's message of Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:41:26 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.224126.13050@news.columbia.edu> jml12@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Jonathan M Lennox) writes:

     For all those who have Shakespeare quotes which they're unsure
   about, I recommend ftp'ing to ftp.uu.net and looking in the directory
   /doc/literary/shakespeare.  It's all there.

getting access to gopher, if you are on the internet, is worth while.
It will give you the ability to search through sets of books,
including shakespeare and others (the search is not great but it is
better then nothing).  subscribe to the groups alt.gopher,
comp.infosystems.gopher.  Read the FAQ before you ask any questions
though.

--
Sven Heinicke <sven@cs.widener.edu>
``Light up your face with gladness, hide every trace of sadness,
although a tear may be ever so near.'' --J. Turner/G. Parson _Smile_
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From: thayne@unislc.uucp (Thayne Forbes)
Subject: Re: Famous Last Words???
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Organization: HomeVax
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 20:05:08 GMT

News Administrator (news@geovision.gvc.com) wrote:
: dbrooks@osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
: >enpnjat@gdr.bath.ac.uk (N J A Thorne) writes:
: 
: Well, I'm not going to ignore the request.  I suggest "Panati's Extraordinary
: Endings of Practically Everything and Everybody" Charles Panati, ISBN
: 0-06-055181-X (or 0-06-096279-8 for the paperback).  Harper and Row, New
: York.  It's the only book I've seen with a good collection of "famous last
: words".  Inspite of the good concept, it was actually a disappointing book -
: not as good as his other book "Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things".
: 
Although not exactly what you asked for, Malcolm Forbes wrote a little
book a few years ago (have to be a few years ago huh...) called
'They went that-a-way'  It was about the ultimate dimise of lots of
people.  A lot of it was quite good, and there were a few last words.

-- 
Thayne Forbes
thayne@unislc.slc.unisys.com
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From: kenneth@leland.Stanford.EDU (Kunal Saurov Bagchi)
Subject: Woody Allen
Summary: quote
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305 USA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 10:35:21 GMT

Solid Woody Allen :

"Sex between 2 people is a beautiful thing ; between 5 it's 
fantastic ..."

Ken


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From: dp@world.std.com (Jeff DelPapa)
Subject: Full text of
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 21:26:46 GMT

 I recently heard a quote that was  "nations use wisdom when all other
avenues have been exausted"  (spirit, but not the exact syntax) Who
said, etc?
<dp>

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From: ludwigj@CS.ColoState.EDU (Vilkata (Joe Ludwig))
Subject: Re: if at first you [do|don't] succeed...
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 07:29:51 GMT
Organization: BadgerCom Industries

"If at first you don't succeed, give up and blame it on a computer."


-- 
+--------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| Vilkata, the Dark King   | "Science friction burns my fingers, Electricity |
| ludwigj@cs.colostate.edu |  still lingers. Put away that ray gun.  How do  |
| Vilkata@Most MUCKs       |  you martians say... I love you?" -- XTC        |
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From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
Subject: Re: Coolidge
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 07:00:40 GMT

wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher) writes:

>Others said:
># No one is really sure who said it. Odds on favorites are Dorthy Parker
># and Alexzander Woolcott.
># 
># "Coolidge is dead"                    
># "How can you tell?"

>You might try H. L. Menckin......
>			{sp?}

It was indeed Dorothy Parker, according to _The_Portable_Curmudgeon_ by
Jon Winokur, 1987.

The precise words were "How could they tell?".
-- 
~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`

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