Proletarians of the world, look into the depths of your own beings, seek out the truth and realise it yourselves: you will find it nowhere else.
-- Peter Arshinov


[anarchism/793]

Hi! You have reached 555-0129. None of us are here to answer the phone and
the cat doesn't have opposing thumbs, so his messages are illegible. Please
leave your name and message after the beep...


[pets/19]

Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone.
-- Pyrrhus


[politics/62]

Never trust an operating system.


[computers/520]

Q: What do you get when you cross a mobster with an international standard?
A: You get someone who makes you an offer that you can't understand!


[riddles/71]

Canada Bill Jones's Motto:
It's morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

Canada Bill Jones's Supplement:
A Smith and Wesson beats four aces.


[definitions/158]

When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband.
When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife.
-- Oscar Wilde


[men-women/516]

"If you don't want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little
Lavoris in the toilet."
-- Jay Leno


[pets/25]

Nobody ever died from oven crude poisoning.


[miscellaneous/395]

Why don't you ever enter any CONTESTS, Marvin?? Don't you know your
own ZIPCODE?


[zippy/500]

A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions.
-- George Eliot


[people/28]

I can give you my word, but I know what it's worth and you don't.
-- Nero Wolfe, "Over My Dead Body"


[people/380]

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
-- "Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"


[literature/53]

Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
-- Yogi Berra in his rookie season.


[sports/16]

The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from
the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called
cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
-- Terry Pratchett, "Night Watch"


[pratchett/1]

The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree
that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.


[medicine/65]

The Assassin moved quietly from roof to roof until he was well away from
the excitement around the Watch House. His movements could be called
cat-like, except that he did not stop to spray urine up against things.
-- Terry Pratchett, "Night Watch"


[pratchett/1]

Sometimes a man who deserves to be looked down upon because he is a
fool is despised only because he is a lawyer.
-- Montesquieu


[law/169]

Hey, what do you expect from a culture that *drives* on *parkways* and
*parks* on *driveways*?
-- Gallagher


[humorists/41]

I don't think 'It's better than hurling yourself into a meat grinder'
is a good rationale for doing something.
-- Andrew Suffield in
<20030905221055.GA22354@doc.ic.ac.uk> on debian-devel


[debian/80]

I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
-- Aneurin Bevan


[news/21]

From 0 to "what seems to be the problem officer" in 8.3 seconds.
-- Ad for the new VW Corrado


[sports/35]

Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best way
they can. I'm sick of the job. It's a thankless one and full of grief.
-- Al Capone


[drugs/99]

A star captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even
his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive.
-- Kirk, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown


[startrek/4]

Debian Hint #21: If your Debian box is behind a slow network connection,
but you have access to a fast one as well, check out the apt-zip package.


[debian-hints/20]

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.


[news/16]

Do not read this fortune under penalty of law.
Violators will be prosecuted.
(Penal Code sec. 2.3.2 (II.a.))


[goedel/8]

if the anchorman wears a blazer.


[news/39]

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-- Albert Einstein


[science/240]

aphorism, n.:
A concise, clever statement.
afterism, n.:
A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.
-- James Alexander Thom


[definitions/52]