Break into jail and claim police brutality.
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Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Q: How many IBM types does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Fifteen. One to do it, and fourteen to write document number
GC7500439-0001, Multitasking Incandescent Source System Facility,
of which 10% of the pages state only "This page intentionally
left blank", and 20% of the definitions are of the form "A:.....
consists of sequences of non-blank characters separated by blanks".
You are scrupulously honest, frank, and straightforward. Therefore you
have few friends.
Q: How many journalists does it take to screw in a light bulb?
A: Three. One to report it as an inspired government program to bring
light to the people, one to report it as a diabolical government plot
to deprive the poor of darkness, and one to win a Pulitzer prize for
reporting that Electric Company hired a light bulb-assassin to break
the bulb in the first place.
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more
deadly in the long run.
-- Mark Twain
You work very hard. Don't try to think as well.
Q: Why was Stonehenge abandoned?
A: It wasn't IBM compatible.
You seek to shield those you love and you like the role of the provider.
He jests at scars who never felt a wound.
-- Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet, II. 2"
Q: Why did the WASP cross the road?
A: To get to the middle.
If you sow your wild oats, hope for a crop failure.
Of course you have a purpose -- to find a purpose.
Next Friday will not be your lucky day. As a matter of fact, you don't
have a lucky day this year.
At once it struck me what quality went to form a man of achievement,
especially in literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously
-- I mean negative capability, that is, when a man is capable of being
in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching
after fact and reason.
-- John Keats
You will win success in whatever calling you adopt.
Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
There is an old time toast which is golden for its beauty.
"When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend."
-- Mark Twain
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted;
persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting
to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author
-- Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Q: How many surrealists does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Two, one to hold the giraffe, and the other to fill the bathtub
with brightly colored machine tools.
[Surrealist jokes just aren't my cup of fur. Ed.]