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  Build a ring 93 million miles in radius -- one Earth orbit -- around the sun....
• Jacques: First, you must get to know your lane. Feel the slickness, feel the slippery finish.
  Caresses it, experience it. Quite smooth, isn't it?...
• Joey: All right. [gets up] Monica: [stopping him] No!
  Joey, we swore we'd never tell! Chandler: [running over and joining Monica] They'll never understand!...
• A sheet of paper crossed my desk the other day and as I read it, realization of a basic truth came over me.
  So simple! So obvious we couldn't see it. John Knivlen, Chairman of Polamar Repeater Club, an amateur radio group, had discovered how IC circuits work....
• What they said: What they meant: "You will be fortunate if you can get him to work for you.
  (We certainly never succeeded.) There is no other employee with whom I can adequately compare him....
• One day this guy is finally fed up with his middle-class existence and decides to do something about it.
  He calls up his best friend, who is a mathematical genius....
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
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  I chased that rascal to get it back, but gave up after dickety-six miles....
• A woman went into a hospital one day to give birth.
  Afterwards, the doctor came to her and said, "I have some....