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17 January, 2002 (begun entering as document from notes) [1st edition, as of 24 February, 2008]
Bob McGrath

I make no apologies for any of this. Some you will find amusing, some "wise", some
offensive, some silly, some cynical, some contradictory and some puzzling. Fine.
It's all fun and nonsense. Obviously, I love to play with words and ideas.

    The consideration that some occurrences might be bad (undesired /undesirable)
             makes us miserable while we bring them about by our resisting them.

    It is said that he who hesitates is lost....and it is true: he hesitates because he is lost.

    How do we kill ourselves?
    Let me count the ways.

    The most common form of government these days is Hypocracy.

    Drugs are the last, desperate, disastrous entertainment.

    When in doubt, supererrogate.

    You can't get there from here---when you get there, you are still here.

    How to judge and monitor the quality and quantity of your own work:
               How good and how abundant would you expect it to be, if you
                        were the recipient?  (Can you be sure you are not?)

    A history of human knowledge: "Let's see, how can we sell......"

    I wonder where the time went?
    The same place it came from.

    Resorting to violence indicates mental and spiritual bankruptcy.

    Critics and fools are a dime a million.

    How about the French alcoholic who was Absinthe-minded?

    (Correct) practice makes better.

    I'm studying to be a quantum mechanic.

    What was it that you wanted me to forget?

    A politician is someone who with silvery (or brass) tongue tries to convince you
            that he's not screwing you and that it's for you own good, anyway, while screwing
            you for his own purposes.

    The only sure safety device, method, practice or program is for the individual to
            be alert and in present time.

    Failure to communicate is the root of all evil.

    You can borrow yourself into a hole, but you can't borrow yourself out.

    Where there's a will, there's an heir.

    I wish wishing worked.

    Any way you look at it--it's a blessing.

    Misery tends to repeat itself.

    There are some who feel that the double-entendre should be classified as cruel and unusual
            pun-ishment.

    Some years ago, the Volkswagen Rabbit could have been called the Bug Bunny.

    Competence should be seen and not heard.

    Those things happen every twice in a while.

    Welcome to tomorrow.
    This is our future.
    A ruin with a view.

    Life in the hereinafter.

    The tourer of less evils.

    The Golden Pariah.

    Book title: You're Dead and This is Hell.

    To belong to a minority group it is only necessary to confine your observations to those things
            which less than a majority have in common with you.

    There are two views in regard to totalitarianism and regimentation, etc.:
        1. For it.
        2. Against it.
    Those who are in favor of it think of it as only applied to others, not to themselves.  They may
    want to use it or see it used for others, but they would not advocate its use on themselves.

    Bureaucracy is a failure of management.  Labor unions are a failure of labor. Both are parasitic
    pressure groups advocated and served by the lazy and incompetent in the interest of security in their laziness and     incompetence. A business ideally consists of a symbiotic relationship between management and labor, not warfare.

    In this universe, the tendency of all things is to reach a state of balance, stasis, or equality.  Left
    alone, it all runs down.  Whatever motion, change, or activity occurs must be caused.  (Some  
             things, like galaxies, take longer than others).

    There are four kinds of people in the world (arranged according to their value):
        1. Clever and honest. (Ethical)
        2. Unclever and honest. (Ethical)
        3. Unclever and dishonest. (Unethical)
        4. Clever and dishonest. (Unethical)
    The wealthy are 1's and 4's, the poor, 2's and 3's.  4's exploit and suppress 2's, 3's, and 4's, and
    1's if possible.  1's contribute to the survival of 1's and 2's, and indirectly and unintentionally to
    3's and 4's.

    They were engaging in "linguisticuffs".

    It might be good to invent a weapon of mass construction/instruction which, instead of
    killing, makes politicians, bureaucrats, priests, and other salesmen and bullies into people.

    Beware of Dog caca.

    Signs of the times:
        Caution: this truck makes wild turns!
        Caution: bored on board.
        Reversed Parking.
        No Exit   3 miles.
        None at this price.
        Caution: cell-phone abuser on board!

    How could I possibly be driving?  Call 1-800-BEATSME.

    What problem is this a solution to?

    Message pad in office:  "While you were asleep..."

    The world is a machine which shows you what you are thinking and deciding.

    Life is a matter of life and death.

    Blessed are those who know not for they will be able to look and see.

    AI: Artificial Intelligence.
    AS:  Artificial Stupidity.

    "Lest we remember...."

    The bite of the flumble bee.

    Grownups are just adulterated children.

    Skeptic tank.

    Let us question everything and look instead of thinking.

    We are all prostitutes of one kind or another.

    Discover the wide, wild, wonderful world of present time!

    There must be some sensible alternatives to police pursuits.

    Did Man start to develop tools after he lost his inherent abilities, or did he develop tools as a
             substitute for using his inherent abilities?

    The rarest commodity in this world is a FACT.

    I'm here! I'm me! I'm me and a half!
    And I'm here to make you people laugh!

    "Best used before Hell freezes over."

    Where would you hide Eternity?
    In a place no one would look.
    In the present instant!
    Isn't that where we always are, no matter how hard we try to avoid it?

    Every human thrust triggers its human opposite.

    Sex is the root of all evil.  Without it there would be no jealousy, envy, greed, war, violence,
            adverlying, conflict over goods, food or land, no shortages---except of people.

    Government is the result of the accumulated irresponsibilities of individuals.

    He is suffering from cerebropetrosis.   (This could be translated as rocks on the brain.)

    CAS: Computer Assisted Suicide.

    Blind side economics.

    Book title: Cheat Your Way to Temporary Success and Other Half-Baked Essays.

    I hear about contagious disease and sexually transmitted disease.  Why not contagious health
    and sexually transmitted health?

    Keep it down to manageable sighs.

    The direct way is best.  Sometimes.

    People want to be, or at least to feel, more alive.

    Body sitter service--for those OBEs.

    The appropriate response is to LAUGH!

    Is there anyone you haven't forgiven?

    Caveat Emptor Company --- If you're not satisfied it's your own damn fault. Our money
    back guarantee: We guarantee we will never give your money back.

    I believe there is such a thing as negative intelligence.
    So that if someone was given a brain and a half, he would then have half a brain.
    (Not that the brain has anything to do with intelligence.)

    Welcome to California -- No Smoking!

    Ours is the "Throwaway Civilization".

    Wake up, please.

    When people "die" they all go to the same "place". How they have lived, what they have
    "learned" and decided and thought makes that "place" seem to be either heaven or hell.

    The Gnab Gib theory of the origin of the universe.

    Drive skillfully.

    How to get revenge on everybody (or drive them crazy) -- be a happy puppy always.

    "America is confronted with insurmountable opportunities." -Winston Churchill.

    It's not so much what you say;
    It's what you have.
    It's not so much what you have;
    It's what you do.
    It's not so much what you do;
    It's what you are.
    It's not so much what you are;
    It's what you aren't.

    Notice:  To promote suffocation, keep this bag near babies and children.  Use it in cribs,
    playpens and carriages.  This bag is a toy.

    Notice:  The Sturgeon General has determined that tobacco is one of the five food groups.
             Consuming several servings a day will promote good health.

    Join the Society For the Promotion of Nonsense Outside of Washington.

    Darwin called it the Descent of Man -- and it has been downhill, all right.

    In this moment is the beginning and end of my life.

    You eat what you are.

    Life is what is; pain is resistance to what is: resistance to life.

    Those who can't confront not knowing solve the discomfort by believing.

    There's plenty of time as long as you don't hurry.

    Common, ordinary, every-day, run-of-the-mill, garden-variety miracles.

    Satire is difficult in an age which contains so many grotesqueries.

    If you can't perceive, you have to believe.

    Art is its own reward.

    What does this world need?  Enlightenment.
    What does this world want?  Stuff and nonsense.

    Never put off until today what you can do yesterday.
    
    Cheer up -- It's only life!

    Someone said, "How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?"  To which I
    would add, "What time would it be if you didn't know what time it was?"

    Gun control, or goon  control, or self-control?

    The guardian of the woods is asleep. Shhhh!

    Computer chip cookies?
    Microchip cookies?
    Toxic chip cookies?
    Buffalo chip cookies?

    A brief history of Man:
        1. Transpires.  2. Respires. 3. Requires. 4. Inquires. 5. Aspires.
             6. Perspires. 7. Desires. 8. Admires. 9. Acquires. 10. Inspires. 11. Conspires.
            12. Sires. 13. Retires. 14. Mires. 15. Expires.

    If you would like to speak to a robot, press 1; If you would rather have your nails pulled out
    than listen to this recording, press 2; If you would rather be surfing, press 3; If you have a
    wrong number, press 4; If this is a crank call, press 6; If you want to leave a message,
    wait for the  (beep).

    Children are people with small, growing bodies on whom parents (and other adults) exercise
    their fantasies, insanities and inadequacies. Oh, and teach baby talk to.

    The most beautiful thing is a cognition --- a moment of realization.

    We change politicians like we change underwear -- and for many of the same reasons.

    Is this universe an intelligence test?

    Two mistakes can be made:  assuming that you are enlightened; and assuming that you are
    not enlightened.

    Redundancies:
        Government interference.
        Police brutality.
        Crooked politician.
        Hate crime.    (compare Love crime)

    Oxymora:
        Conventional wisdom.
        Military intelligence.
        Truth in advertising.
        Chemo-therapy.

    In any stagnant society, the scum tends to rise to the top.

    Then there is the germ theory of health. Illness is caused by a deficiency of  bacteria.

    I trust the government (any government) to try to make a slave or a corpse out of me to
    achieve their (who knows what?) ends.

    Some people are exhibitionists, while others are inhibitionists.

    Mind is a mirror of creation.
    Creation is continuous in now.

    One person's dream is another person's nightmare.

    If some people are conspiring to have theories, are they then to be called "theory conspiricists"?

    Laugh, or else!

    Maybe it's enough to just BE.

    The dark side of the farce.

    The United States Marine Kazoo and Tambourine Band.

    The Archbishop of Controversy.

    "Achieve Perfection In 21 Days Or Your Money Back!"

    If people were playing the game of life, they wouldn't be interested in watching others play
    the games of death.

    Life is a full-time job.

    The biggest problem in the universe: How do you really kill someone?

    The Twentieth Century has been the most important century in years.

    Happy rebirthday!

    Make $500 a week! Work at home, stuffing elephants!

    The Mad Cow Restaurant and Steak House.

    "God takes and takes and takes away everything that is not God until there is nothing left that
    is not God."  [from "Souls" a story by Joanna Russ]

    Cheer up! Enjoy being dead while you can. When you come back to life, you won't have it
    so easy.

    What is could be something else, but it ain't.

    Let's learn ancient Roman mathematics, kids!

    Did you hear about the sorcerer who did not know how to spell?

    To believe is human, to observe is divine.

    Think diffident.

    The "War on Terrorism" is like the "Wars" on cancer, poverty and drugs---it addresses only
    the symptoms. Or pretends/claims to.

    Great minds run in the same circles.

    It ain't necessarily so; it ain't necessarily not so.

    Concerto #0 for piano, no hands.

    Federal Reverse Notes.

    The world's primary lesson:  "Be afraid!"

    Mean little kids and madmen rule the world.

    The first person to compose computer music was C. P. U. Bach.

    A wise view must be a wide view.

    Oh, I'm sorry, I thought I had a wrong number.

    There is a fine line between philosophy and philosophistry.

    Killiosity cured the cat.
 
    The land of the spree and the home of the grave.

    They tell me I'm dyslecix. Do you think they're right?

    The search for Prester John is on, or is over....

    Are you a toxic waste dump?  Do you "watch" TV?  "Listen" to talk
             radio? "Read" newspapers?

    The difference between the wars among nation states and the gang warfare
             in the cities is that there is no police force pretending to control international conflicts.
             The U.N. is a kind of multinational Kiwanis Club.

    The clock struck zero....

    A sweeping panorama of bullshit.

    The star sprinkled banister.

    We who are about to die, salute you (with the bird), oh mighty emperor asshole.

    All you have lost is a dream within a dream within a dream.

    A world wallowing in technology.

    Expelled by the Guardian of Eating.

    Bach's Magnificent Magnified Cat.

    Your money back if not disappointed!

    Book:  The Path to Endarkenment.

    My ambition is to have no ambitions.

    Meet the inventor of the cricket.

    Happy New Minute!

    Most writing is creative fiction.

    The Rubber Mat of Omár Kháyyám.

    The Man Who Sued God.

    Anarchy is that brief period between one tyranny and the next.

    Do it just for the zen of it.

    Where do we come from here?

    Some world "leaders" deserve a medal for meddling.

    I remember learning something once. I don't remember what it was, but I
             remember learning something.

    Governments always prefer slaves to citizens.

    I voted once with my body, but we lost the election.

    Don't ever argue with an ostrich.

    New word: unanimosity.

    He ended up with ego on his face.

    Let's all be third world countries.

    Q: What's it like, being an idiot-savant?
    A: Huh?

    Owner's Manual for the Epiphany Generator.

    Ought-to Biography...

    The rain of brains goes quickly down the drain.

    Hard of hearing; hard of seeing; hard of being.

    The pig meeting in the sky.

    Las Vegas: toxic wage dump.

    History repeals itself.

    The horrible whore of war.

    "And now, reporting dead from the obituary desk....."

    Don't jump to collusions.

    Making the world safe for billionaires.

    Have a politician or an attorney for lunch today. (How to feed
    the world.)

    Is Man the only species that laughs?

    What is the hound of one sland capping?

    Help! I'm trapped in a propaganda factory!

    Defenestrate Windows!
    
    I've been listening to Schubert's Unfinished Symphony for years.

    A way with words/away with words.

    Hi! I'm a religious fanatic!

    Neither a leader nor a follower be.

    Life is just one damned decision after another.

    Pictures at an Inhibition.

    Journey From the Cinder of Earth.

    Sidestepping death is not an option for Homo Sapiens. This is
    one good reason for being something higher than Homo Sapiens.

    The War on Pizza.

    The war on humanity; the war on life.

    How many light bulbs does it take to change a moron?

    Constantly reborn in present time.

    sHe committed pseudocide.

    On the verge of virginity.

    The great Roman emperor Quarentus Lugubrius.

    If you're not happy where you are, you won't be happy
        where you're going.

    People are not consistently good or bad; they get some things
    right and make mistakes about other things.

    It took an act of congress to get us together.

    Look, stupid---or look stupid.

    7% perfect.

    YANRNA--yet another non-recursive non-acronym.

    AEDS--Acquired Efficiency Deficiency Syndrome.

    The following program has been canceled.

    Don't be a whine-a-holic.

    What's the difference between Theoretical Physics
        and Science Fiction?

             Strike while the irony is hot.

    He bit off more than he could eschew.
    ___________________________________________

    ambidextrous -----------------------------both handed
    levodextrous  -----------------------------left handed
    dextrodextrous ---------------------------right handed
    monodextrous ----------------------------one handed
    homodextrous ----------------------------same handed
    retrodextrous -----------------------------back handed
    curtodextrous -----------------------------short handed
    prestidigitodextrous ---------------------sleight of handed
    omnidextrous -----------------------------all handed
    predextrous -------------------------------before handed
    postdextrous ------------------------------after handed
    nondextrous ------------------------------clumsy
    ____________________________________________

    In the Jaws of Creation.

    Cemetery sign: "Do not inter"

    The laws of soupline and demean.

    An optigon is a hopeful or an ideal geometric figure.
    The optigon lever is part of it.

    "Chosen people" always choose themselves.

    Concerto for piano, two left feet.

    It was a day like any other day: unique.

    My inferiority complex is superior to your inferiority complex.

    The Tower of Galactic Perfection.

    I bring the sadly eclectic!

    To be safe, always wear a conundrum.

    San Luis Abysmal, CA.

    "The eleventh commandment: THOU SHALT SHUT UP AND LISTEN"
                            -Ray Bradbury in One for His Lordship and One for the Road

    Forgive me Father, for I should have sinned.

    Sour visions of God tweaking the universe.

    I am a fragment writer in a world of sentences, paragraphs, chapters, and volumes.

    Up, pup, and away!

    What is needed is a redistribution of the pollution.

    The wit and wisdom of Yorick Passé.

    If you are really living, you are running full-tilt toward the grave.

    I heard of a new wind, a string of turtles, and screaming silence.

    Die Kitsch und Sinken Simphonie.

    Computer: an electronic device for making most people feel stupid
                             and for making a few people feel smart.

    Who is the king of Wimpdom?

    Do you ever think of Moses in diapers?

    The apparency of Homo Sapiens: He's born, he wiggles for a while,
    then dies, sometimes leaving behind some debris. What's missing?

    ...playing Bach's keyboard music as best he can on the banjo....

    "If you don't have a dream, how ya gonna have a dream come true?"
                                                      -song, "Happy Talk"

    The world is faced with incremental excrement.

    All together, now, let's laugh at the government!

    The universe is raining things, and you're in poverty?

    ...news of the elections and other disasters....

    How to be a philosofool.

    ...a "bare bones" funeral....

    A radio talk show host characterized himself as a member of
         "the chattering class".

    FUDocracy.      (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt)

    I am neither a Gliberal nor a Cornservative.

    If soporific is the adjective and noun, then is the verb soporify, or
    soporifize, or soporificate, and the perpetrator a soporifist, or
    soporifizer or a     soporificator?

    Government is just another unaccountable corporation.

    Homework starts at home.

    Talk radio:  noisy dead air.

    Windows super-cali-fragile-istic-XP-halitosis.

    The artist was so shy that he held an inhibition of his paintings.

    The Nazi Concentration Camp Weight Loss Diet.

    A parade of potential political lunatics.

    Chocolate chimp cookies.

    My strongest languish is Englage.

    Hippopotamouse.

    A surgeon with an itchy scalpel.

    "Be kind to your forfeited friends."
                      -John Brunner in Stand on Zanzibar

    Do you realize how many people are injured every year
            trying to open packages?

    Life as a hobby/hobbyhorse.

    The Paradise Paradox

    I intend to start the Intergalactic Anti- "y'know" Society.

    The 3 Rs: Roaming, Rhyming and Rhythm tricks.

    The medical, pharmaceutical, food and insurance complex.

    He's moving to the slumburbs.

    Nothing ventured, nothing lost.

    Headline: PRESIDENT LAUGHED OFF THE STAGE OF HISTORY!

    All mainstream religions have been hijacked, and art and science
                have sold out.

    Life is God playing with himselves.

    Over one copy sold!

    A man stumbles over his own decisions.

    These are the Dark Ages, before the dawn.

    Urgent project: teach lawyers and physicians to speak English.

    Please leave your Social Security number at the beep, and I'll
    get back at you.

    Floor tile with cockroach design.

    "Serving Christ since 1000 BC."

    After all is sad and dumb.

    The dreams that stuff is made of....

    Problem: how to lose something that you never had or that never existed
    (except in imagination).

    It's a wog-eat-wog world.        (worthy oriental gentleman)

    He needs a prosthetic head.

    A cockroach farm?

    A sandpaper beach?

    Concerto for violets and orchids.

    An acquaintance or friend is an ex-stranger.

    It's all in your imagination that it's all in my imagination.

    The Monument to Pretended Knowledge.

    An Opinion Pine...a tree or a yearning?

    To defecate is definitely deafening.

    If we lived before and before, are we all ex-saints and ex-stranglers?

    ...but that's another story. Once upon a time....but that's two other
    stories. Once upon a time....but that's three other stories....

    A national day of moroning.

    Who is this Lord No Swat?      ("lord knows what")

    It all happened in one swell fluke.

    Last words: "This should be very interesting!"

    Ali Blah-Blah, the Persian talk-show host.

    Dying is a cop-out.

    30- day free trial -- at the courthouse.

    When God got lazy.

    The end at the light of the tunnel.

    What an awful-ternative!

    The Time Fool

    It's not my default!

    He had an ominition.    (ominous premonition)

    The Preachers of Crometheus by Teebhoven.

    As hot as dragon snot.

    The Arrest of Jack Williamson   (late science fiction writer) (book title?)

    Professor Shining Crisp.

    Wake up to a higher dream.

    A fine-couthed poem.

    Give God a break.  Do it yourself.

    He said we said they said....

    The Day and Night of Desperate Serenity

    Insanity is a satire of sanity.

    Mother is the necessity of invention.
    Invention is the mother of necessity.

    The egg has come home to roost.

    Zen tries to startle out of the box by paradox.

    Alexander Borodin's Ragtime Band.

    Out, damned snot!

    Cancervive.

    blue breeze

    ventriliquiz

    A Model T Ford with a spoiler?

    The shadow is at cause over the man (or object).

    The Prankenstein Monster.

    You have too many "can't" in your rants.

    Ode to a Grievous Urge
    Ode to a Gracious Curve

    Man is the only species with a tale.

    The blessing/curse of.....

    Cats don't laugh.

    Ghost-skin boots -- lighter than a feather!

    Heartless love.

    Improper shutdown detective.

    Blossoms growing on the poem tree.

    Who polices the police?  Who governs the government?

    All advertising should be "on demand".

    Idolizing the idle.

    From LSD to LDS (and back?)

    Smack dab in the milieu.

    Professor Flogaduck.

    You can ignore the ignoramus.

    The Elegant Christmas Elephant

    Just below the surface beauty, love and intelligence are barely hidden.

    Exit depot to infinity.

    Corpse convicted of committing suicide - receives suspended sentence.

    The Debugging of Science      (I have a book called the Science of Debugging)

    Q: "Is the alarm working?" A: "Deafeningly."

    Radio station KPUQ.

    Ninety percent of man's activities are dedicated to getting others to do it.

    Time strike.

    Attack of the Brain Sponges

    Earth is My Gravestone

    The reform of medicine would be approached if practitioners received payment
    only for a good result. The reform of psychiatry would be approached if the
    practitioners were to first receive their standard treatments.

    Hoaxus Pokes us, money-chango!

    Looney Tombs Funeral Home & Cemetery

    mere frantic design

    Terse recursive curse in cursive verse.

    gossamer hooks

    a hair from the tongue of....

    The cannibal who was a vegetarian-arian or a vegetarianivore.

    A Chilling Garden of Verse
    The Chilling Hour

    For a digital photographer you've got a lot of negatives.

    User hostile software.

    Life is a near-death experience.

    What happens to the Grade B milk?

    Nebula Obbligato

    The Laundry Tree

    Plutonium stew.    (boils itself)

    agile, dancing thread of oboe

    (name), loser of the Nobel Prize for (field) for (year).

    The Endless String Quartet
.
    A stray ashtray.

    Jocular chip cookies.

    My computer has a Mau-Mause. Or is it a Mao mouse?

    Transparent green ceramic rooster.

    The Moaners and Whiners Annual Index

    We filled Phil full to full fulfillment.

    Why did so many people pray for the dead Pope?
    Were they afraid he would go to hell?

    Cancer dancer.

    ...mistakenly kisses Narcissus.

    A weariness of turds.

    Let us creep hour seance of gloomer.

    Scientist: someone with an axiom to grind?

    Covert arrogance.

    We saw Esau by the seesaw.

    Is Hell on the road to Heaven?

    Helpless Corpses Enactment   

    Gossipocracy  

    Shuffling random memoranda.

    A Corny Island of the Moon

    Parallel parables.

    Mad frog's dad.

    The Holy Mackerel Church of God  or
    The Church of the Holy Mackerel

    rainscape....trainscape


    In the troth of tooth, by troth!
    In the tooth of truth, by troth!
    In the truth of tooth, by troth!
    In the troth of truth, by tooth!

    golden honeycomb

    ...words to set men dreaming....

    Sneakocracy.

    Dr. Sarah Brum, brain surgeon.
    Dr. Medulla Oblongata, Arabic neurologist.
    Gluteus Maximus, Roman emperor.

    All wrongs reversed.  (compare All rights reserved)

    Philoscoffical / philoscoffy.

    City Zen for citizens.

    The 500 pound gorilla may dream.

    Abstruse caboose.

    Anomalous frigate.

    The moribund shell of civilization.

    "Healthcare" is just another scheme to make the rich richer.

    Image:  nested puppets (each puppeteer is himself a puppet)

    We are all do-it-yourself gravediggers.

    Don Quicksox by Michael Decircumvent Sawavagrant

    The addict's autobiography was his "Magnus Opium".

    People get loud and violent when they have run out of ideas.

    The Clue Book (for people who don't have a clue) (could be a series....)

    Meta-writing:  saying with words that which "cannot" be said with words.

    A familiar saying is, "A picture is worth a thousand words."
    Equally true is, "A word is worth a thousand pictures."

    The Mischievous Messiah.

    When he arrived he was a provisional person.

    The eternal wagging of the pterodactyl's tongue.

    The Saint James Reformatory Blues.

    In the Old West, men wore "peacemakers". Now they wear pacemakers.

    Are you sure you want to jump off this cliff?      ?OK  ?CANCEL

    Citizen of the polyverse.

    If all motion ceases at absolute zero, would we have negative motion
    at a temperature of 500 degrees below absolute zero?

    "That photograph looks just like a painting."

    Capitalism: greed at gunpoint.  Socialism:  sharing at gunpoint.

    The educated eye sees what the innocent eye does not.
    The innocent eye sees what the educated eye does not.

    How many are looking for the Endless Weekend?

    What is the purpose of purpose?

    Headline:  ALL DEAD AS FIRE ENGULFS UNIVERSE!

    Is there a global concentration camp in our future?

    Why is assisted suicide by a physician vilified, while assisted murder
    (execution) is approved for a physician?

    Caution: psychiatry may be hazardous to your physical, mental and spiritual health.

    Concerto for wind and silence.

    Things I never said.

    New improved Fact-free news!

    The National Association for the Culling of Advanced People.

    The thwartation of folly.

    The search for terrestrial intelligence
     
    Mad Scientist's Disease.

    What did you think before someone told you what to think?

    Just say, "Yo".

    Just say, "maybe".

    Government is the utopiate of the people.

    Worry tomorrow.

    You are never happy when you are wondering if you are happy or trying
    to discover how to be happy.

    All your prayers are answered. But prayers are in the heart, not in words or
    bowed heads. So take care, take care.

    Phone message:  "I went out looking for myself. If I return before I get back,
    keep me here until I arrive with myself. That way, I won't be alone. Otherwise,
    leave a message after the sneeze."

    I came running from miles around to find the center of the universe. It was
    here all the time, in eternity.

    Those who can, do: those who can't, teach; those who can't teach, teach teachers;
    those who can't teach teachers, become critics; those who can't criticize, become
    attorneys; those who can't attorneyize, become politicians; those who can't
    politicize, become marketing executives; those who can't marketize, become
    psychiatrists; those who can't psychiatrize, become their patients.

    My God, is it present time already?

    What makes you think that things are not going the way they should? Maybe
    you don't see the overall plan.

    Avoid the snare of thinking that because a condition is "good" or "bad"
    that it will remain that way.

    How about a seeing-eye giraffe or rhinoceros?

    Fat-free lard.

    Soon we will have nutrition-free food.

    Did you know that some people are in sects?

    What's your excuse?

    Give me $37.50 in hundred dollar bills.

    As futile as studying to be a chicken dentist.

    There lived in the swamp a private investi 'gator.

    Test question for a happy life:  "How would you like to come back and live
    through it all over again?"

    I seem to think, therefore I seem to be.

    "I'm conducting a survey. Anything you say will be used against you."

    Say, do you remember when we were in that MEST universe?
    Wasn't that something....

    Book:  Complexity Made Simple

    Book:  Memoirs of an Amnesiac

    The rubber yam of Homer's kayak.

    The Babble Hymn of the Republicrats.
 
    Politics (as practiced on this planet) is the art of bringing
    a civilization to its knees.

    Expectorate the unexpected.

    Are you optimystical?

    Slogans mislead the lazy.

    Gibbous disdains our daily dread.

    Victims don't have any fun.

    Are fireflies getting in your hair?

    Platitudes form a puddle of pusillanimous pus.

    Laminated lamentations.

    Pigs with tricky noses.

    Revengeance is urine; or Mayan.

    The War to end all Peace.

    The Age of the Gimmick.

    Democracy -- government by "dem" (not us).

    Wisdom lost in the midsts of time.

    Mandatory madness.

    Computer assisted/enhanced/crippled bureaucracy.

    Holy water vending machine.

    Crop formations:  let the skeptics make just one as good.

    The ultimate hubris: Mankind referring to itself as Homo sapiens.

    Time after time machine.