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Freebsd Fortunes 2:  791 of 1371

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
                -- P. Erdos
 
Freebsd Fortunes 2:  792 of 1371

A meeting is an event at which the
minutes are kept and the hours are lost.
 
Freebsd Fortunes 2:  793 of 1371

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader,
but to protect the writer.
                -- Dean Acheson
 
Freebsd Fortunes 2:  794 of 1371

A method of solution is perfect if we can forsee from the start,
and even prove, that following that method we shall attain our aim.
                -- Leibnitz
 
Freebsd Fortunes 2:  795 of 1371

A Mexican newspaper reports that bored Royal Air Force pilots stationed
on the Falkland Islands have devised what they consider a marvelous new
game.  Noting that the local penguins are fascinated by airplanes, the
pilots search out a beach where the birds are gathered and fly slowly
along it at the water's edge.  Perhaps ten thousand penguins turn their
heads in unison watching the planes go by, and when the pilots turn
around and fly back, the birds turn their heads in the opposite
direction, like spectators at a slow-motion tennis match.  Then, the
paper reports "The pilots fly out to sea and directly to the penguin
colony and overfly it.  Heads go up, up, up, and ten thousand penguins
fall over gently onto their backs.
                -- Audobon Society Magazine

2001-02-02, from http://news.bbc.co.uk:

For five weeks, a team from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS)
monitored 1,000 king penguins on the island of South Georgia as
Lynx helicopters passed overhead.

"Not one king penguin fell over when the helicopters came over,"
said team leader Dr Richard Stone.

"As the aircraft approached, the birds went quiet and stopped
calling to each other, and adolescent birds that were not associated
with nests began walking away from the noise. Pure animal instinct,
really."

The conclusion, said Dr Stone, is that flights over 305 metres
(1,000 feet) caused "only minor and transitory ecological effects"
on king penguins.
 
Freebsd Fortunes 2:  796 of 1371

A mighty creature is the germ,
Though smaller than the pachyderm.
His customary dwelling place
Is deep within the human race.
His childish pride he often pleases
By giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?
You probably contain a germ.
                -- Ogden Nash
 
Freebsd Fortunes 2:  797 of 1371

A mind is a wonderful thing to waste.
 
Freebsd Fortunes 2:  798 of 1371

A modem is a baudy house.
 
Freebsd Fortunes 2:  799 of 1371

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery,
is the most tremendous object in the whole creation.
                -- Goldsmith
 
Freebsd Fortunes 2:  800 of 1371

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good
many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and
the police.
                -- Mr. Dooley
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