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• On the other hand, the TCP camp also has a phrase for OSI people.
  There are lots of phrases. My favorite is `nitwit' -- and the rationale is the Internet philosophy has always been you have extremely bright, non-partisan researchers look at a topic, do world-class research, do several competing implementations, have a bake-off, determine what works best, write it down and make that the standard....
• Aunt Patty: "Nothing dear, I'm just trashing your father.
  Lisa: "Well, I wish you wouldn't because, aside from the fact that he has the same frailties as all human beings, he's the only father I have therefore he is my model of manhood and my estimation of him will govern my prospects of my adult relationships....
• Every employee should lay aside from each pay a goodly sum of his earnings for his benefit during his declining years, so that he will not become a burden on society or his betters.
  -- Work Rule...
• Lisa: What, Aunt Patty? Patty: Oh, nothing, dear. I'm just trashing your father.
  Lisa: Well, I wish you wouldn't because, aside from the fact that he has the same frailties as all human beings, he's the only father I have....
• Even if we put all these nagging thoughts [four embarrassing questions about astrology] aside for a moment, one overriding question remains to be asked.
  Why would the positions of celestial objects at the moment of birth have an effect on our characters, lives, or destinies?...
• I am not quite sure how to tell you this, but there is so much plastic out there in this society in which you and I live that genuine immitation vinyl-naugahyde leopard skin has become an endangered species.
  -- Lily Tomli...
• STEERING COMMITTEE Picture a huge semi-trailer, hurtling uncontrolled down the road.
  .. and inside the vast cab, is the steering committee, trying to pass a motion to swerve to avoid a little old lady....
• Put lawyers on the ethics committee, for balance.
• There is nothing quite so bad as being asked to give a speech when one is unprepared.
  Well maybe there is something this bad, that that is being prepared to give a speech and not being asked....