POSTS OF THE WEEKStardate: 119470:3837 - Cloudbase: The one thing I remember about Christmas was that my father used to take me out in a boat about ten miles offshore on Christmas Day, and I used to have to swim back. Extraordinary. It was a ritual. Mind you, that wasn't the hard part. The difficult bit was getting out of the sack. - John Cleese Stardate: 119471:3113 - Nkir: On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. Will Rogers Stardate: 119480:0324 - Nkir: The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ' Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...' Isaac Asimov Stardate: 119482:1035 - Nkir: If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. Robert X. Cringely Stardate: 119488:9212 - Nkir: Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? Edgar Bergen Stardate: 119489:7892 - Racingnut: Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out."- Hugh Laurie Stardate: 119490:8527 - Rowan: Who the heck is General Failure? And why is he trying to read my hard disk? Stardate: 119517:0047 - Nkir: Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die. Mel Brooks
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