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• Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by those that follow after.
  -- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 AD) -- Meditations, vii, 34...
• Homer: Aw, I've never been so miserable in all my life.
  But I can't take it out on Marge and the kids -- I've gotta carry the burden all by myself....
• Grampa: What's the matter, boy? Homer: Nothing. Grampa
  You haven't said poo all night and usually I have to wrestle the bucket [of `Shakespeare's Fried Chicken'] out of your greasy mitts....
• The story of the butterfly: "I was in Bogota and waiting for a lady friend.
  I was in love, a long time ago. I waited three days....
• How many Dune Coons -- does it take to replace a light bulb?
  Three - one to hold the bulb and two to turn the stool, but they need a foreign adviser to tell them it was burned out....
• bogosity /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. [orig. CMU, now very common] The degree to which something is bogus.
  Bogosity is measured with a bogometer; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered"....
• Brackett: "Three weeks ago, one of our most *celebrated* ambassadors and advisors to Federation leaders for generations, disappeared.
  He left no word of his destination. Two days ago, intelligence reports placed him on Romulus, and I assure you it was an unauthorized visit....
• Who is the oldest inhabitant of this village? We haven't got one
  we had one, but he died three weeks ago....
• bogosity: /boh-go's*-tee/ n. 1. The degree to which something is {bogus}.
  At CMU, bogosity is measured with a {bogometer}; in a seminar, when a speaker says something bogus, a listener might raise his hand and say "My bogometer just triggered"....