Small Children, Given A Playground, A Meadow Or A Stretch Of Street, Will At Once Begin To Create A Sport Based On The Relationships Of Trees, Posts, Benches Or Whatever.

Small Children, Given A Playground, A Meadow Or A Stretch Of Street, Will At Once Begin To Create A Sport Based On The Relationships Of Trees, Posts, Benches Or Whatever.

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Small children, given a playground, a meadow or a stretch of street,
will at once begin to create a sport based on the relationships of
trees, posts, benches or whatever. When the code is complete and sides
chosen, woe to the child who makes the aberrant move in the game. There
are cries of "You can't do that. It's the rule!" The odd phrase "It's
the rule," shouted by children all over the world in different
languages, is an impassioned demand for the maintenance of an orderly
world.
-- Heywood Hale Broun (1888-1939)

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LISP n. [from `LISt Processing language', but mythically from `Lots of Irritating Superfluous Parentheses'] AI's mother tongue
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Men are blind in their own cause. -- Heywood Hale Broun (1888-1939)