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• You've reached Mike and Nancy's answering machine. They're not home right now.
  At least, I don't think they are. Hang on. (Voice moves away from recording microphone....
• I don't think I'd be so bored if I didn't have so much to do.
• And when with envy Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You 'll in your girls again be courted, And I 'll go wooing in my boys.
  -- Thomas Percy (1728-1811) -- Winifreda (1720)...
• Oh whistle, and I 'll come to ye, my lad.
  -- Robert Burns (1759-1796) -- Whistle, and I 'll come to ye...
• Should I start with the time I SWITCHED personalities with a BEATNIK hair stylist or my failure to refer five TEENAGERS to a good OCULIST?
  -- Zippy the Pinhead...
• Matt Groening, creator of "The Simpsons", speaking on fans of "The Simpso
  "I have this comic strip called 'Life In Hell', which runs in 200 newspapers, and I get a lot of fan mail from generally articulate, literate people....
• I remember, I remember The fir-trees dark and high
  I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky...
• Macb. If we should fail? Lady M. We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we 'll not fail.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act i, Sc. 7...
• pointy-haired adj. [after the character in the Dilbert comic strip] Describes the extreme form of the property that separates suits and marketroids from hackers.
  Compare brain-dead; demented; see PHB. Always applied to people, never to ideas....