collection begun 1989
served 10 dollops at at time

In 1985, the ratio of the average CEO salary to the average worker's salary was 40-to-1. By 2005 it had metastasized to 450-to-1. Some of these cancers should be removed.

"In a set duel between two opponents of high courage and great skill, one armed with a rapier, the other with a sabre, the former will in general first prick his antagonist, but he will be cut down at the same moment; for thrusts, even if mortal, rarely disable at the instant. Of this an instance occurred at Culloden to Lord Rober Ker, whose head was cleft by a Highlander, whom he had pierced through with a spontoon, which was yet sticking in his breast." -- From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Reuben Percy and John Timbs, p. 48, Vol. 5 (London, Aird & Burstall, 1844)

Therion's rule of snack food: Remove 1 item from the container. Hold it up against the ingredients list. If the ingredients list is larger than the food item, it's probably not good for you.

Everytime I read a book, I thank my 1st grade teacher. At least I did until she got an unlisted number.

Are the voices in my head getting louder, or is my hearing getting more accute?

Of course size matters. If it didn't, there'd be much more demand for 4" dildos.

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. - H.P. Lovecraft

Cigarettes are like squirrels. They are perfectly harmless until you put one in your mouth and light it on fire.

In the land of the undocumented, the man with the long form birth certificate is king.

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