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• When testing the cake with a straw, it is much more easily done if you remove the straw from the broom.
  Do not use the straw from the broom in the barn, and if you do not have a barn, do not use the straw from the broom in the men's room....
• DATA: An accrual of straws on the backs of theories.
• Bad waltzers are grasping at Strauss.
• You can lead practically any animal to water, but if you can get that critter to blow bubbles through a straw, then by golly, you've done something.
• Breakfast: a pot of coffee and a straw.
• It is much harder to accomplish something when you set out to do it without any idea of what it is you want to do.
• A drowning man will catch at a straw. -- Proverb
• It's the last straw that breaks the camel's back.
• Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour 's at the stake.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Hamlet -- Act iv, Sc. 4...