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  In most cases the stranger would oblige. And the surveyor, who was Horace de Vere Cole, an arch-joker during the 1920s would go around the corner to ask another person to hold the other end of the tape....
• Hello stranger, who are you?
• Twas midnight on the ocean, Her children all were orpha
  Not a streetcar was in sight, Except one a tiny tot, So I stepped into a cigar store Who had a home across the way To ask them for a light....
• I do not know how other people would set about the task.
  I can therefore only tell you how I myself have approached the matter, and I must submit to the reproach that my way of solving the problem is the outcome of my individual prejudice....
• What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science?
  . . . Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life....
• 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?...
• Grimes: God, he eats like a pig. Lenny: I dunno.
  Pigs tend to chew. I'd say he eats more like a duck....
• During the darkest days of World War II, when each night brought waves of Luftwaffe bombers raining death and destruction on a near-defenseless Londo
  Prime Minister Churchill went on the air to address the British people....
• Everybody but Sam had signed up for a new company pension plan that called for a small employee contribution.
  The company was paying all the rest. Unfortunately, 100% employee participation was needed...