Linux Ethnic

I didn't know he was dead; I thought he was British.

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
                -- George Bernard Shaw

I shot an arrow in to the air, and it stuck.
                -- graffito in Los Angeles

On a clear day,
U.C.L.A.
                -- graffito in San Francisco

There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our
lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
                -- Robert Orben

I'm going through my "I want to go back to New York" phase today.  Happens
every six months or so.  So, I thought, perhaps unwisely, that I'd share
it with you.

> In New York in the winter it is million degrees below zero and
  the wind travels at a million miles an hour down 5th avenue.
> And in LA it's 72.

> In New York in the summer it is a million degrees and the humidity
  is a million percent.
> And in LA it's 72.

> In New York there are a million interesting people.
> And in LA there are 72.

"I'm in Pittsburgh.  Why am I here?"
                -- Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate

If all the Chinese simultaneously jumped into the Pacific off a 10 foot
platform erected 10 feet off their coast, it would cause a tidal wave
that would destroy everything in this country west of Nebraska.

Illinois isn't exactly the land that God forgot -- it's more like the
land He's trying to ignore.

In 1880 the French captured Detroit but gave it back ... they couldn't
get parts.

In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.

In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations --
it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
                -- Stuart Keate