Freebsd Fortunes 6

Television is now so desperately hungry for material
that it is scraping the top of the barrel.
                -- Gore Vidal

Television only proves that people will look at anything --
rather than each other.

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll
believe you.  Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have
to touch to be sure.

Tell me, O Octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, Octopus;
If I were thou, I'd call me us.
                -- Ogden Nash

Tell me what to think!!!

Tell me why the stars do shine,
Tell me why the ivy twines,
Tell me why the sky's so blue,
And I will tell you just why I love you.

        Nuclear fusion makes stars to shine,
        Phototropism makes ivy twine,
        Rayleigh scattering makes sky so blue,
        Sexual hormones are why I love you.

Telling the truth to people who misunderstand you is generally
promoting a falsehood, isn't it?
                -- A. Hope

Tempt me with a spoon!

Tempt not a desperate man.
                -- William Shakespeare, "Romeo and Juliet"

Ten of the meanest cons in the state pen met in the corner of the yard to
shoot some craps.  The stakes were enormous, the tension palpable.
        When his turn came to shoot, Dutsky nervously plunked down his
entire wad, shook the dice and rolled.  A smile crossed his face as a seven
showed up, but it quickly changed to horror as a third die slipped out of
his sleeve and fell to the ground with the two others.  No one said a word.
Finally, Killer Lucci picked up the third die, put it in his pocket and
handed the others to Dutsky.
        "Roll 'em," Lucci said.  "Your point is thirteen."