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• Did you hear about the snail that was mugged by two tortoises?
  When he went down to report the mugging the police officer asked him if he could describe the event and the snail replied, "I don't know if I could, it happened so fast....
• Quote #331 "In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles.
  That is an average of a trifle over one mile and a third per year....
• You can be stopped by the police for biking over 65 miles per hour.
  You are not allowed to walk across a street on your hands....
• I'm shooting forward at the speed of 60 minutes per hour.
• There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth
  (1) not going all the way; and (2) not starting. -- Buddha...
• You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. -- Plato
• Carl: Hey, Homer, are you sure it's OK to smoke Cuban cigars and gamble here now that your wife's a cop?
  Homer: Are you kidding? Being a cop husband is one mighty sweet deal!...
• Two leaps per chasm is fatal. -- Chinese proverb