Subject: Humor - RANDOM THOUGHTS > Subject: RANDOM THOUGHTS > >ON POETIC LOVE > When an eel bites your leg and the pain makes you beg, > That's a moray > -- The Fusco Brothers > > ON MARTIAL ARTS AND METAPHYSICS > Deja Fu: The feeling that somehow, somewhere, you've > been kicked in the head like this before. > > ON HUMILITY > To err is human, to moo bovine. > > ON DEEP THOUGHTS > A day without sunshine is like night. > > ON MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMS > A polar bear is a rectangular bear after a co-ordinate transform. > > ON YOUTH > Some people say that I must be a horrible person, but that's not > true. I have the heart of a young boy. In a jar. On my desk. > -- Steven King > > ON PROBLEM SOLVING > When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to > resemble a nail. > -- Abraham Maslow > > ON MATERIALISM > He who dies with the most toys, is, nonetheless, still dead. > > ON RELIGIOUS PRACTICES > Neutrinos have mass? I didn't know they were Catholic. > > ON INFINITY > If you had everything, where would you keep it? > -- Steven Wright > > ON ECONOMICS > The cost of living hasn't affected its popularity. > > ON PUBLISHING OR PERISHING > I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because > someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at > the top. > -- English Professor, Ohio University > > ON REVISIONIST HISTORY > What was sliced bread the greatest thing since? > > ON DATING > When aiming for the common denominator, be prepared for the > occasional division by zero. > > ON MATERIAL SCIENCE > Character density: The number of very weird people in the > office. > > ON EXTINCTION > Save the whales. Collect the whole set. > > ON LITERATURE > This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be > thrown with great force. > -- Dorothy Parker > > ON EXPLANATION OF THE END > ... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire > was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful > termination of their C programs. > -- Robert Firth > > ON PROPHECY > The meek shall inherit the earth--they are too weak to refuse. > > ON EXCUSES > I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. > -- Joe Walsh > > ON NUMBERS > Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3 -- not even for very large > values of 2. > > ON WORLD POLITICS > Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find > a rock. > > AND FINALLY, ON DRUGS AND DEVELOPMENT > There are two major products to come out of Berkeley: LSD and > UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. >