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Individualists unite!
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1522 of 2327 |
Indomitable in retreat; invincible in
advance; insufferable in victory.
-- Winston Churchill, on General Montgomery
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infancy, n:
The period of our lives when, according to Wordsworth, "Heaven lies
about us." The world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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Infidel: In New York, one who does not believe in the
Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1525 of 2327 |
Inform all the troops that communications have completely broken down.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1526 of 2327 |
Information Center:
A room staffed by professional computer people whose job it is to
tell you why you cannot have the information you require.
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Information is the inverse of entropy.
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Information Processing:
What you call data processing when people are so disgusted with
it they won't let it be discussed in their presence.
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Freebsd Fortunes 4: 1529 of 2327 |
Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations
Sign on a cabin door of a Soviet Black Sea cruise liner:
Helpsavering apparata in emergings behold many whistles!
Associate the stringing apparata about the bosums and meet
behind, flee then to the indifferent lifesaveringshippen
obedicing the instructs of the vessel.
On the door in a Belgrade hotel:
Let us know about any unficiency as well as leaking on
the service. Our utmost will improve it.
-- Colin Bowles
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Inglish Spocken Hier: some mangled translations
Sign on a cathedral in Spain:
It is forbidden to enter a woman, even a foreigner if
dressed as a man.
Above the entrance to a Cairo bar:
Unaccompanied ladies not admitted unless with husband
or similar.
On a Bucharest elevator:
The lift is being fixed for the next days.
During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.
-- Colin Bowles
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