I know this is like giving a fuel/air explosive to a pyromaniac. But on the same note, I really want to see the fuel/air explosive go off. -- Userfriendly 20040524. You're crazy, you know that? Not crazy. Just actively irresponsible. - Sam, in Freefall When questions about Belgium are outlawed, only outlaws will have questions about Belgium. -- Kurt Ullman You gotta fight fire with fire! In that case, why aren't firefighters armed with flamethrowers? - Bruno the Bandit The only answer for Disney is to get some mass driver railguns up on the moon and accelerate 10 ton iron-jacketed rock at all disney outposts, colony sites and corporate hives, and obliterate everything within 100 square miles around them, just to be sure. Of course, there will be some scarring of the land, and some civilian casualties, but with something as insidious as Disney, you have to be sure. If you are going to annihilate the evil that is Disney, you cannot do a Micky Mouse job of it. -Jennifer Diane Reitz In flight, as in life, you live one step from oblivion. You stand on nothing but your will. Your only security is to embrace insecurity. So the next time you fly, step on board as though entering a sacred battlefield, place your tray table in its upright and locked position and stare straight past the pretzels and the chitchat into the jaws of the absolute. The airline that doesn't kill me makes me stronger. - Brother Void "There's a door." "Where does it go?" "It stays where it is, I think." ~Terry Pratchett, ERIC "I seriously question the sanity of somebody who uses multiple exclamation marks." Insomniac's credo: "I'll get all the sleep I need when I'm dead!" Stop complementary schismogenesis! The abyss looked within me, screamed, and ran away! We are Linux. Resistance is measured in Ohms. Confucius say too much. -- Recent Chinese Proverb Reno erat Rudolphus Nasum rubrum habebat; Si quando hunc videbas, Hunc candere tu dicas. Omnes renores alii Semper hunc deridebant; Cum misero Rudolpho In ludis non ludebant. Santus Nicholas dixit Nocte nebulae, "Rudolphe, naso claro Nonne carum tu duces?" Tum renores clam'bant, "Rudolphe, delectus es? Cum naso rubro claro Historia descendes!" "When the advertiser saw the cathedral spires over the downs in the distance, he looked at them and wept. 'If only,' he said, 'this were an advertisement of Beefo, so nice, so nutritious, try it in your soup, ladies like it." (That is the entire text of Dunsany's story aptly titled What We Have Come To). Go not to the Net for counsel, for it will say both "Me too!" and "Nazi!" Dogs think they are humans. Cats know they are gods. The Zen Librarian searched for nothing on AltaVista and received 27,987,384 hits. Brian Smith. http://internettrash.com/users/lafnlibn/koans.htm I love the world and if I have to sue for custody, I will sue for custody. They Might Be Giants, "Stand On Your Own Head" "I hope to look back on these times and laugh. I just pray it won't be from the confines of a straight jacket." "'The pen is mightier than the sword,' but since might does NOT make right, we'll beat our pens into ploughshares." --Lancelot Gunn WARNING: it has been suggested that these cartoons may really be the foraging mechanism of some larger sentient pan-dimensional electronic parasite species which propagates itself by feeding on your cognitive juices. The cartoons would like you to know that they scoff at such suggestions. SCOFF, SCOFF, SCOFF. - Strange Matter In his ordinary conversation he was, to say the least of it, misty and obscure, but after dinner or when at all excited his language certainly verged on the incomprehensible. This was perhaps owing to his liberal use of the parenthesis without any definite pause to mark the different clauses of the sentence. He used to consider his arguments unanswerable, and they certainly were so perplexing, and generally reduced his hearers to such a state of bewilderment and stupefaction, that few ever ventured to attempt an answer to them. Lewis Carrol. The Walking Stick of Destiny "The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it." Doug Larson tua mater caligas gerit. your mother wears combat boots. It's perverts like all of you who ruin it for perverts like me. Dogs say, "People give us food and shelter. They must be gods." Cats say, "People give us food and shelter. We must be gods." - Nancy Lebovitz (nancyL@universe.digex.net) Jabberwocky 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. ``Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!'' He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long time the manxome foe he sought -- So rested he by the Tumtum tree, And stood awhile in thought. And as in uffish thought he stood, The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, And burbled as it came! One, two! One, two! And through and through The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead, and with its head He went galumphing back. ``And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'' He chortled in his joy. 'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. - Lewis Carroll The only problem with Haiku is that you just get started and then In my book, food should be nutrition and entertainment. -- Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson I am not an arrogant bastard, I was right all along, you're totally off the wall, and idiots like you shouldn't meddle in the affairs oftheir intellectual superiors. Eliezer Yudkowski That was a very interesting post; it didn't make any sense at all. sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams "Whom the mad would destroy, they first make Gods." -- British journalist Bernard Levin.[1] "Nice decorating job on Saturn, but the other planets ought to be done up to match. And WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO TIDY YOUR ASTEROID BELT?????" Richard Treitel