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• So tell me about your problems...
• I feel better about world problems now! -- Zippy the Pinhead
• If you really want to annoy your neighbors and worry them no end, cause them to sit up nights in anxiety, than there is but one way to do it.
  Tell the truth about them. Truth needs no embellishment and is always better than any fiction possible....
• Our problems are so serious that the best way to talk about them is lightheartedly.
• Do you know, I think that Dr. Swift was silly to laugh about Laputa.
  I believe it is a mistake to make a mock of people, just because they think....
• It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
• There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to.