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  Homer: Marge, we can't do that! All the kids will call him `Larry Fairy'....
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  -- Answering machine madness - can't answer right now because......
• We never make assertions, Miss Taggart, that is the moral crime peculiar to our enemies.
  We do not tell, we show. We do not claim, we prove....
• Kazoo band playing "Thus Spake Zarathustra":) Thinking you were making an ordinary phone call, you have instead reached.
  .. (TA-DAAAAA!) the ANSWERING MACHINE! Leave your name and number, and we will get back to you as soon as we can....
• A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
  -- William Faulkne...