Freebsd Fortunes 5

MIT:
        The Georgia Tech of the North

Mitchell's Law of Committees:
        Any simple problem can be made insoluble
        if enough meetings are held to discuss it.

mittsquinter, adj:
        A ballplayer who looks into his glove after missing the ball, as
        if, somehow, the cause of the error lies there.
                -- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans;
it's lovely to be silly at the right moment.
                -- Horace

mixed emotions:
        Watching a bus-load of lawyers plunge off a cliff.
        With five empty seats.

Mix's Law:
        There is nothing more permanent than a temporary building.
        There is nothing more permanent than a temporary tax.

Mobius strippers never show you their back side.

MOCK APPLE PIE (No Apples Needed)

  Pastry to two crust 9-inch pie        36 RITZ Crackers
2 cups water                             2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons cream of tartar              2 tablespoons lemon juice
  Grated rind of one lemon                 Butter or margarine
  Cinnamon

Roll out bottom crust of pastry and fit into 9-inch pie plate.  Break
RITZ Crackers coarsley into pastry-lined plate.  Combine water, sugar
and cream of tartar in saucepan, boil gently for 15 minutes.  Add lemon
juice and rind.  Cool.  Pour this syrup over Crackers, dot generously
with butter or margarine and sprinkle with cinnamon.  Cover with top
crust.  Trim and flute edges together.  Cut slits in top crust to let
steam escape.  Bake in a hot oven (425 F) 30 to 35 minutes, until crust
is crisp and golden.  Serve warm.  Cut into 6 to 8 slices.
                -- Found lurking on a Ritz Crackers box

Modeling paged and segmented memories is tricky business.
                -- P.J. Denning

modem, adj:
        Up-to-date, new-fangled, as in "Thoroughly Modem Millie."  An
        unfortunate byproduct of kerning.