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• Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example. -- Carlson's Consolatio
• No experiment is ever a complete failure. It can always serve as a bad example, or the exception that proves the rule (but only if it is the first experiment in the series).
  -- Futility Facto...
• Nothing is ever a total loss; it can always serve as a bad example.
• Futility Factor: No experiment is ever a complete failure -- it can always serve as a negative example.
  Fulton's Law of Gravity: The effort of catching a falling object will cause more destruction than if the object had been allowed to fall in the first place....
• At least you can always use my code as a bad example.
• One of the things older folks like to give is advice, as a form of consolation for not being able to give bad example.
• If you are good for nothing else you can stil serve as a bad example -- Peter l. Berge
• There's one consolation about matrimony. When you look around you can always see somebody who did worse.
  -- Warren H. Goldsmith...
• Liberals aren't without worth - they can still serve as a bad example.