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Things toknow by mid-age

Swampy

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25 Things we should have learned by middle age

1. If you're too open-minded,
your brains will fall out.

2. Don't worry about what people think;
they don't do it very often.

3. Going to church doesn't make you
a Christian anymore than standing
in a garage makes you a car.

4. It ain't the jeans
that make your butt look fat.

5. Artificial intelligence is no match
for natural stupidity.

6. My idea of housework
is to sweep the room with a glance.

7. Not one shred of evidence supports
the notion that life is serious.

8. It is easier to get forgiveness
than permission.

9. For every action, there is an equal
and opposite government program

10. If you look like your passport picture,
you probably need the trip.

11. Bills travel through the mail
at twice the speed of checks.

12. A conscience is what hurts when
all of your other parts feel so good.

13. Eat well, stay fit, die anyway.

14. Men are from earth. Women are from earth.
Deal with it.

15. No man has ever been shot
while doing the dishes.

16. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

17. Middle age is when broadness of the mind
and narrowness of the waist change places.

18. Opportunities always look bigger
going than coming.

19. Junk is something you've kept
for years and throw away three weeks
before you need it.

20. There is always
one more imbecile
than you counted on.

21. Experience is a wonderful thing.
It enables you to recognize a mistake
when you make it again.

22. By the time you can make ends meet,
they move the ends.

23. Thou shalt not weigh more
than thy refrigerator.

24. Someone who thinks logically provides
a nice contrast to the real world.

25. If you must choose between two evils,
pick the one you've never tried before.


swampy
 

kc4zvw

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Here is my list:

==> sig0 <==
In a literary light, if UNIX is the Great Novel, Perl is the Cliffs Notes.

==> sig1 <==

"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity
killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly." - Arnold Edinborough


==> sig2 <==

There is no problem, personal or technical, which cannot be solved with
either a faster computer, a bigger hammer, or enough plastic explosives.


==> sig3 <==

For those who don't want to understand, explanation is pointless.
For those who do want to understand, little explanation is needed.


==> sig4 <==

"This has been a test of the M$ Outlook virus system... Had this
been an actual virus, you'd have been... Well, toast."


==> sig5 <==

"Never teach a pig to sing; It's just waste your time and it really annoys
the pig." -- Unknown

==> sig6 <==

"Where a calculator like the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and
weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes
and weigh only 1 1/2 tons." Popular Mechanics, March 1949

==> sig7 <==

The Internet is the largest hiding place on earth.
--Anonymous

==> sig8 <==

Remember: A picture is worth a thousand words.
It just takes up more bandwidth.

==> sig9 <==

Somedays it's just not worth chewing through the restraints...


==> sigA <==

"Windows is a 32 bit patch to a 16 bit GUI based on a 8 bit operating
system written for a 4 bit processor by a 2 bit company which can not
stand 1 bit of competition."

==> sigB <==

Always give 100% at work:
12% Monday, 23% Tuesday, 40% Wednesday, 20% Thursday, 5% Friday

==> sigC <==

Quote of the Month

"...Yet terrible as UNIX addiction is, there are worse fates. If UNIX
is the heroin of operating systems, then VMS is barbiturate addiction,
the Mac is MDMA, and MS-DOS is sniffing glue. (Windows is filling
your sinuses with lucite and letting it set.)

You owe the Oracle a twelve-step program."


==> sigD <==

#!/usr/bin/perl -iake_one_down_pass_it_around:_bottles_of_beer:_on_the_wall:99
for(($t,$a,$b,$i)=split/:/,$^I;$i;print){$_="-$i$a$b,-$i$a,-T$t,-".--$i."$a$b-";
s/(-1_.*?e)s/$1/g; y/_-/ \n/ } # by Randolph Chung and Joey Hess

==> sigE <==

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

==> sigF <==

911 - government sponsored "Dial a Prayer"

==> sigG <==

Advertising (n): the science of arresting the human
intelligence for long enough to get money from it.
-- Stephen Leacock.

==> sigH <==

If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world
peace for an hour, imagine how quiet and serene it would be until the
looting started.

==> sigI <==

"Happiness is building your own boat"
-H.H. "Dynamite" Payson

==> sigJ <==

"UNIX is a pilgrimage not a destination, enjoy the journey!"

==> sigK <==

Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! Like
fire it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
--George Washington

==> sigL <==

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein

==> sigM <==

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson on Bill Gates: "He has a Napoleonic concept
of himself and his company, an arrogance that derives from power"

==> sigN <==

Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.

==> sigO <==

Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which
has occurred.

==> sigP <==

"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray,
Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right
answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of
confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. --Charles Babbage"

==> sigQ <==

Madness takes it's toll. Please have exact change.

==> sigR <==

Linux is ready for the desktop, but the desktop user is nowhere near
ready for Linux.
Steve Kinney via the LeapList

==> sigS <==

Nearly worse are the gaggle of MCSE-certificate toting, JavaScript
cut-n-pasting, aspiring computer "professionals", who must certainly
prove that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.


==> sigT <==

"I will NOT be pushed, filed, cataloged, classified, stamped, indexed,
briefed, debriefed, or numbered!"

My life is my own -- Unit No. 3,735,928,559

==> sigU <==

Who flung poo?

==> sigV <==

Consumer spending: Buying Chinese products from a minimum wage clerk at a
Mall heavily mortgaged to a British bank is going to improve our economy?

==> sigW <==

"Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble." -- Louis L'amour

==> sigX <==

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something
completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete
fools. -Douglas Adams

==> sigY <==

The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd.
The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has
ever been. -- Alan Ashley-Pitt

==> sigZ <==

Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
 

Kayak Jack

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Aug 26, 2003
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I always carry a little whiskey, in case of snake bite.
I also carry one, small snake.
W.C. Fields

Upon reaching his 70th birthday, Samuel Langhorn Clemens was asked to what he attributed his old age. He replied: "My rules of health are simple. I never smoke . . more than one cigar . . at a time.
I have no other restrictions.@

Water? Never drink it.
Fish swim in it.
W.C. Fields

'Twas a woman who led me down the road to drink.
I never wrote to thank her.
W.C. Fields

I would arise in the morning and sit on the edge of my bed, shaking and trembling. For years, it was the only exercise I got.
W.C. Fields

Any man that loves whiskey and hates kids can't be all bad.
W.C. Fields

The only thing sweeter than revenge, Is an unprovoked attack.
Teddy Bear

I went to Philadelphia one day. It was closed.
W.C. Fields

Never give a sucker an even break!
W.C. Fields
 

Swampy

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Aug 25, 2003
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Southeastern North Carolina
Another list of Murphy's Law from Canadian Canoe Routes

http://www.myccr.com

MURPHY'S LAW
If anything can go wrong,
it will.

If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the first to go wrong.

If you perceive that there are four ways that something can go wrong and take action to circumvent these four ways, a fifth will promptly develop.

In nature, nothing is ever right. Therefore, if everything is going right, something is wrong.

Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.