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  It is not a matter of their training or their equipment....
• Ned: Well, all right, I'd like to call this meeting of the PTA to or-diddely-order.
  Let's see if we can't put an end to this strike fuss, huh?...
• We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
  Our age yields no great and perfect persons. We want men and women who shall renovate life and our social state but we see that most natures are insolvent, cannot satisfy their own wants, have an ambition out of all proportion to their practical force, and so do lean and beg day and night continually....
• bob n. At Demon Internet, all tech support personal are called "Bob".
  (Female support personnel have an option on "Bobette")....
• Why do other people hear our voices different than we do? Because their heads are full of mush.
• Choice is an illusion. In reality, our lives are controlled by the society in which we live.
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.
  -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- Address, New York City, Feb. 21, 1859...
• The following appeared in a memo from the new vice president of Sartorian, a company that manufactures men's clothing.
  "Five years ago, at a time when we had difficulties in obtaining reliable supplies of high-quality wool fabric, we discontinued production of our deluxe alpaca overcoats....