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    Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the ‘most reliable Windows ever.’ To me, this is like saying that asparagus is ‘the most articulate vegetable ever.’

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    Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can’t see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.

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    I also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use.

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    Greyhound Bus Lines motto: “We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards.”

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    Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.

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    The basic Roman ruin design is a pile of rocks with a little plaque saying “Roman Ruins” and a group of tourists frowning at it and wishing they were back at the hotel bar...

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    There’s an old saying among scientific guys: “You can’t make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane.”

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    You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings – even the truth.

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    The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn’t have eyeballs or fins.

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