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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
- Mitch Ratcliffe

Oh my darling clementine

Tonight I went shopping at the local grocery store, when lo and behold, I spotted something that made my eyes (and mouth) water. ISRAELI clementines! I wasn't slow to fill a bag and I shall stuff face all through Easter with these. I know it's not much, but whatever I can do to support Israel, I'll do.

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It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali

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Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde

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Oh Lord please don’t burn us don’t kill or toast your flock
Don’t put us on the barbeque or simmer us in stock,
Don’t bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.
- Monty Python

Wanderlust

It's Easter and I have all of next week and Monday the week after, off. My traveling foot is itching to wander but ah needs to save me moneys for the summer. I'm sitting here listening to typical "road songs" (mainly Springsteen) and it's all I can do not to run out to the car and drive south, and just keep on driving into the night.

Spring has arrived and with it the usual wanderlust. I've just gotta buckle down, grind my teeth and keep the powder dry till June, when I'm off to sweet, sweet Italy. Sigh.

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I know a lot of people without brains who do an awful lot of talking.
- The Scarecrow (from The Wizard of Oz)

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The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton

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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
- Calvin Coolidge

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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
- Fred Allen

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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity, and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because philosophy is an exalted activity, will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
- John W. Gardner

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Do you not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?
- Axel Oxenstierna

Sorcery

According to CNN, a Lebanese guy has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for "sorcery". Ali Hussain Sibat was a program leader in Beirut of a call-in show, where he "according to his lawyer ... would predict the future on his show and give out advice to his audience."

This is one execution I can get behind wholeheartedly. Fuckin cons who deceive their audiences by claiming to know the future or fucking morons who actually believe they can do so - doesn't matter. One less cunt in the world is always a good thing, whether that cunt is a stupid cunt or a tricking cunt is of minor importance.

Sadly, the Saudis seem to have fucked up on basic logic, since the rationale of his death penalty was described thusly: "...the judges in Medina issued a statement expressing that Sibat deserved to be executed for having continually practiced black magic on his show, adding that this sentence would deter others from practicing sorcery." In other words, he's not being beheaded because he is making outrageous, irrational, illogical bullshit claims, he's getting his head lopped off because the Saudis think he's able to foretell the future by invoking black magic.

I've already gone on record advocating this measure before, for other reasons, but let me reiterate it in no uncertain terms: The whole Saudi royal family, its religious authorites and its clergy; every fucking institution that serves to prop up this disgusting stone-age regime of superstition, fundamentalism, misogyny and just general allround stupidity needs to be wiped off the surface of the earth.

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In explaining any puzzling Washington phenomenon, always choose stupidity over conspiracy, incompetence over cunning. Anything else gives them too much credit.
- Charles Krauthammer

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I'm a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I'll forget.
- Michael McShane

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I drink to make people interesting.
- Groucho Marx

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I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
- Steven Wright

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Les envieux mourront, mais non jamais l'envie
[The envious die, but envy never does]
- Molière

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Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
- Doug Larson

Vive la France!

The Prague deal fell through, on account of the Czech morons already having rented out the apartment they offered me... what a bunch of amateurish imbeciles.

On the bright side, I've just gone and extended my stay in the south of France from a week to a month. Nice little town, surroundings seem purdy and there's lots of history in the area. The drawback with any and all activities conducted in France is of course that the country is full of FRENCH people, with all that entails in terms of annoyance, arrogance, cowardice, non-parlez-anglais-fear-of-soap-generally-behaving-like-a-cunt behavior. Still, I shall brave it for a month, and maybe I'll come away with, if not an appreciation, then at least a resigned tolerance for the southern frogs.

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If half the lawyers would become plumbers, two of man’s biggest problems would be solved.
- Felton Davis, Jr.

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According to The Telegraph, the current Labour administration is planning a move to abolish the House of Lords and replace it with a wholly elected second chamber. About fuckin' time is all I can say. The UK is the only democracy left in the world where one half of its legislature is composed of a mixture of the bastard sons of previous kings (hereditary peers) and psychofants of the current prime minister (life peers). Kick 'em out and let the people decide, for better or for worse. Which brings me to the quote for today, which I thought was an unusually appropriate one:

"The House of Lords is a model of how to care for the elderly."
- Frank Field

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I have no plans, and no plans to plan.
- Mario Cuomo

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Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity to be otherwise.
- Maya Angelou

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The more you are willing to accept responsibility for your actions, the more credibility you will have.
- Brian Koslow

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Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
- Gore Vidal

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When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
- Max Lerner

666

This is my post #666, muahahaha!

On a more sombre note, is there anything more wexing than waiting, waiting, WAITING for confirmation that your travel arrangements are in order? My first apartment in Prague was SOLD the week after I got an initial OK from the owners to rent it (wail & weep, it was a true beauty!), and now I've gotten an offer from a rental agency in Prague, but they have yet to get in touch with the owner of the apartment to get a final confirmation. Gah!

If all goes according to plan I leave the country the day after school ends and return the day before it begins again. Now that's what I call good use of time, a whole summer spent outside Norway...

Quote of the Day

Road Rage, Air Rage. Why should I be forced to divide my rage into separate categories? To me, it’s just one big, all-around everyday rage. I don’t have time for fine distinctions, I’m busy screaming at people.
- George Carlin

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"I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?"
Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually, "Cats are Nice."
- Terry Pratchett, from "Sourcery"

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As one goes through life one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
- Katherine Hepburn

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Tact consists in knowing how far we may go too far.
- Jean Cocteau

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One is never as fortunate or unfortunate as one imagines.
- De La Rochefoucauld

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The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them.
- Douglas Adams

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War is like love; it always finds a way.
- Bertolt Brecht

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May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift