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Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the
Presidency.
                -- Richard Nixon

Second Law of Business Meetings:
        If there are two possible ways to spell a person's name, you
will pick the wrong one.

Corollary:
        If there is only one way to spell a name, you will spell it
wrong, anyway.

"Section 2.4.3.5   AWNS   (Acceptor Wait for New Cycle State).
        In AWNS the AH function indicates that it has received a
multiline message byte.
        In AWNS the RFD message must be sent false and the DAC message
must be sent passive true.
        The AH function must exit the AWNS and enter:
        (1)  The ANRS if DAV is false
        (2)  The AIDS if the ATN message is false and neither:
                (a)  The LADS is active
                (b)  Nor LACS is active"

                -- from the IEEE Standard Digital Interface for
                   Programmable Instrumentation

Security check: INTRUDER ALERT!

Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.
She scissored short.  Sorely shorn,
Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed,
Silently scheming,
Sightlessly seeking
Some savage, spectacular suicide.
                -- Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"

"See - the thing is - I'm an absolutist.  I mean, kind of ... in a way ..."

Seleznick's Theory of Holistic Medicine:
        Ice Cream cures all ills.

Self Test for Paranoia:
        You know you have it when you can't think of anything that's
your own fault.

Seminars, n.:
        From "semi" and "arse", hence, any half-assed discussion.

Sen. Danforth:  "There is nothing on the face of the album which would
                notify you if the record has pornographic material or
                material glorifying violence?"
Tipper Gore:    "No, there is nothing that would suggest that to me."
Frank Zappa:    "I would say that a buzz saw blade between the guy's
                legs on the album cover is good indication that it's
                not for little Johnny."

                -- The Senate Commerce Committee hearing on rock
                   lyrics, from The Village Voice, 6 Oct 1985