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Allen's Axiom:
        When all else fails, read the instructions.

Alliance, n:
        In international politics, the union of two thieves who
        have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket
        that they cannot safely plunder a third.
                -- Ambrose Bierce

All's well that ends.

Almost anything derogatory you could say
about today's software design would be accurate.
                -- K.E. Iverson

ALONE:
        In bad company.

Also, the Scots are said to have invented golf.  Then they had
to invent Scotch whiskey to take away the pain and frustration.

alta, v:        To change; make or become different; modify.
ansa, v:        A spoken or written reply, as to a question.
baa, n:         A place people meet to have a few drinks.
Baaston, n:     The capital of Massachusetts.
baaba, n:       One whose business is to cut or trim hair or beards.
beea, n:        An alcoholic beverage brewed from malt and hops, often
                        found in baas.
caaa, n:        An automobile.
centa, n:       A point around which something revolves; axis.  (Or
                        someone involved with the Knicks.)
chouda, n:      A thick seafood soup, often in a milk base.
dada, n:        Information, esp. information organized for analysis or
                        computation.
                -- Massachewsetts Unabridged Dictionary

Although it is still a truism in industry that "no one was ever fired for
buying IBM," Bill O'Neil, the chief technology officer at Drexel Burnham
Lambert, says he knows for a fact that someone has been fired for just that
reason.  He knows it because he fired the guy.
        "He made a bad decision, and what it came down to was, 'Well, I
bought it because I figured it was safe to buy IBM,'"  Mr. O'Neil says.
"I said, 'No.  Wrong.  Game over.  Next contestant, please.'"
                -- The Wall Street Journal, December 6, 1989

Although written many years ago, Lady Chatterley's Lover has just been
reissued by the Grove Press, and this pictorial account of the day-to-day
life of an English gamekeeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor
minded readers, as it contains many passages on pheasant-raising, the
apprehending of poachers, ways to control vermin, and other chores and duties
of the professional gamekeeper.  Unfortunately, one is obliged to wade
through many pages of extraneous material in order to discover and savour
those sidelights on the management of a midland shooting estate, and in this
reviewer's opinion the book cannot take the place of J.R. Miller's "Practical
Gamekeeping."
                -- Ed Zern, "Field and Stream", Nov., 1959

Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back.