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Signs of crime: screaming or cries for help.
-- from the Brown Security Crime Prevention Pamphlet
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Silverman's Law:
If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will.
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Simon's Law:
Everything put together falls apart sooner or later.
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Since I hurt my pendulum
My life is all erratic.
My parrot, who was cordial,
Is now transmitting static.
The carpet died, a palm collapsed,
The cat keeps doing poo.
The only thing that keeps me sane
Is talking to my shoe.
-- My Shoe
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Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're
alive.
-- John Sloan
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Since we're all here, we must not be all there.
-- Bob "Mountain" Beck
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[Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the
vices I admire.
-- Winston Churchill
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Sixtus V, Pope from 1585 to 1590 authorized a printing of the Vulgate
Bible. Taking no chances, the pope issued a papal bull automatically
excommunicating any printer who might make an alteration in the text.
This he ordered printed at the beginning of the Bible. He personally
examined every sheet as it came off the press. Yet the published
Vulgate Bible contained so many errors that corrected scraps had to be
printed and pasted over them in every copy. The result provoked wry
comments on the rather patchy papal infallibility, and Pope Sixtus had
no recourse but to order the return and destruction of every copy.
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Skinner's Constant (or Flannagan's Finagling Factor):
That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to,
or subtracted from the answer you get, gives you the answer you should
have gotten.
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Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes
to work.
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