Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt, Deceit--When Bush said he'd run the country like a business, we didn't realize the business would be MicroSoft! -- "Hi, I'm Captain Kirk and this is Commander Spock, my future source of tasty protein snacks." -- "I am standing . . . somewhere, on Centauri Prime, I think. And I am . . . looking up. And there are ships, just like this, passing overhead. First a few, and then more, a thousand, two thousand, so many that they blot out the sun. A terrible sight." --Londo Mollari -- The water attack followed two explosions at a desert pipeline, serving as Iraq's main oil conduit to Turkey, which disrupted export of oil and is costing the United States seven million dollars a day. I'm sorry, did I say United States? I meant Iraq. It's costing Iraq. It's their oil, we're just, uh, we're just watching it. Cleaning it. Holding it. Bathing it. Having sex with it. -Jon Stewart, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart -- "We always thought that couples protected their own marriages with love, communication and honesty. Our mothers never told us that the secret of a happy marriage was to be sure that same-sex partners weren't allowed to have them." -- Paula Surrey and Steve Gershman, Auburn, ME Letter to the Boston Globe, Monday August 18, 2003 -- KIRK: Spock -- what brings you to this neck of the woods? SPOCK: I have been monitoring your progress. KIRK: I'm flattered. Twelve hundred points of interest in Yosemite and you pick me. -- "Counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor . . ? Death's too good for them." -- Douglas Adams -- "What appears to be a sloppy or meaningless use of words may well be a completely correct use of words to express sloppy or meaningless ideas." -- Anon. (Gowers) -- The narrrower a man's mind, the broader his statements. -- Charles Dickens -- Publishers print the darndest things: Spock slipped in easily at the level of warmth. He had been here before. It knew how to accept him. Spock fought to keep the touch narrow, to move quickly up to the cooler level of consciousness. "Jim?" "My God, yes! It is yes?" Spock heard the soft mind-laughter. "Hell, yes! Spock?" "Yes. Indeed, yes!" Laughter again, rippling like quicksilver. "Where is my logical Vulcan?" "Here." Marshak & Culbreath, Price of the Phoenix (Bantam) -- Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence. -Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land -- Polygamy is when a man marries more than one Mormon. -- I fink, therefore I can. -- "So, it's a choice between him or us? Well, I choose us. All opposed? The 'ayes' have it." -- Walter Curnow, 2010 -- Jaguar is |33+. -- "Marital sex tends toward the boring end, --- Generally, it doesn't deliver the kind of sheer sexual pleasure that homosexual sex does." "Dr." Paul Cameron in Rolling Stone - March 1999 -- "May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant." -- Spock -- "Putting in process restraints on getting code is better than technology changes in the operating system." --Jim Allchin, Microsoft VP, on Windows security -- http://hypatia.slashcity.org/ "It's always nice to have an even mix of hot gay sex and actual information." --Captain Pedantic 12-14-01 -- I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become reality. I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. -MLK
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