Freebsd Fortunes 6

They spell it Vinci and pronounce it Vinchy.
Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce.
                -- Mark Twain

They told me you had proven it          When they discovered our results
About a month before.                   Their hair began to curl
The proof was valid, more or less       Instead of understanding it
But rather less than more.              We'd run the thing through PRL.

He sent them word that we would try     Don't tell a soul about all this
To pass where they had failed           For it must ever be
And after we were done, to them         A secret, kept from all the rest
The new proof would be mailed.          Between yourself and me.

My notion was to start again
Ignoring all they'd done
We quickly turned it into code
To see if it would run.

They told me you had proven it
        About a month before.
The proof was valid, more or less       He sent them word that we would try
        But rather less than more.      To pass where they had failed
                                        And after we were done, to them
                                        The new proof would be mailed.
My notion was to start again
        Ignoring all they'd done
We quickly turned it into code          When they discovered our results
        To see if it would run.         Their hair began to curl
                                        Instead of understanding it
                                        We'd run the thing through PRL.
Don't tell a soul about all this
For it must ever be
A secret, kept from all the rest
Between yourself and me.

They took some of the Van Goghs, most
of the jewels, and all of the Chivas!

They Tore Out My Heart and Stomped That Sucker Flat
                -- Book title by Lewis Grizzard

They use different words for things in America.
For instance they say elevator and we say lift.
They say drapes and we say curtains.
They say president and we say brain damaged git.
                -- Alexie Sayle

They went rushing down that freeway,
Messed around and got lost.
They didn't care... they were just dying to get off,
And it was life in the fast lane.
                -- Eagles, "Life in the Fast Lane"

They will only cause the lower classes to move about needlessly.
                -- The Duke of Wellington, on early steam railroads.

They wouldn't listen to the fact that I was a genius,
The man said "We got all that we can use",
So I've got those steadily-depressin', low-down, mind-messin',
Working-at-the-car-wash blues.
                -- Jim Croce

They're an insidious bunch, your killer pianos.  Had one get loose on me
back in '62.  It slipped out of the cables while we were lowering it out
of its twelfth story apartment, and crushed six innocents in an insane bid
for freedom.
                -- Stig's Inferno