new twain on banks

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@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ darwinism is nothing without enough dead bodies.
 "never try to explain computers to a layman.
  it's easier to explain sex to a virgin."
                                                     -- robert heinlein
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+ 
 (note, however, that virgins tend to know a lot about computers.)
 %
 "a fundamentalist is someone who hates sin more than he loves virtue."
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ this space intentionally left occupied.
 *** important disclaimer:
 by sending an email to any address, that will eventually cause it to
 end up in my inbox without much interaction, you are agreeing that:
-
+ 
   - i am by definition, "the intended recipient"
   - all information in the email is mine to do with as i see fit and
     make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it
@@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ have you drugged your kids today?
  it's a lot better
  if you don't have to fake it."
                           -- seymour cray commenting on virtual memory
-
+ 
 "but virtual memory still gets the job done."
                                                                  -- gr
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@@ -1820,14 +1820,14 @@ some companies call their prototypes "releases", that's all.
  blur as if all those grains of sand had lost their bearings and were
  falling all over each other just trying to get out of the way to make
  room for the next moment, or instant, or tick of the clock"
--- mc 900 ft jesus (http://www.theendoftheworld.org/900/spider1.shtml)
+-- mc 900 ft jesus (http://stuff.madduck.net/pub/misc/fun/newmoon.txt)
 %
 "for her, the dashed lines on the freeway were like grains of sand
  slipping, through an hour glass, ticking away the seconds, the
  minutes, and the hours of her life. if she got home a few minutes
  early on any given afternoon, it gave her a thrill as if she had
  stolen a little something back from death."
--- mc 900 ft jesus (http://www.theendoftheworld.org/900/spider1.shtml)
+-- mc 900 ft jesus (http://stuff.madduck.net/pub/misc/fun/newmoon.txt)
 %
 "health? what good is your health when you're otherwise an idiot?"
                                                 -- theodor w. adorno
@@ -1949,3 +1949,20 @@ uʍop ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ
 %
 spooning leads to forking
                              -- seen on a t-shirt by david & goliath
+%
+i don't want to get myself into a hot babe situation.
+                         -- jonathan mcdowll, #debian-uk, 6 jul 2009
+%
+no. no musicals. i loathe musicals. i never did have a plan for
+doing one. my cousin made me sit through some fucking musical twice.
+i just hate them. they bore me stiff. i think they’re just horrible.
+even _hair_. and they're always lousy music.
+               -— john lennon, _the lost interviews_ by ray connolly
+%
+"politicians and diapers should be changed often,
+ and for the same reason."
+                                                       -- mark twain
+%
+"a bank is an institution will to lend you money,
+ provided you can prove that you don't need it."
+                                                       -- mark twain