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• 1. If you're running for a short queue, it suddenly becomes a long queue.
  2. When you're waiting in a long queue, the people behind you are shunted to a new, short queue....
• To code the impossible code, This is my quest -- To bring up a virgin machine
  To debug that code, To pop out of endless recursion, No matter how hopeless, To grok what appears on the screen, No matter the load, To write those routines To right the unrightable bug, Without question or pause, To endlessly twiddle and thrash, To be willing to hack FORTRAN IV To mount the unmountable magtape, For a heavenly cause....
• Q. How can two perfect strangers feel so close? A. In a queue.
• QUEUE Something that supermarket supervisors obviously have no idea how to manage.
  It's tempting when you're waiting to grab a PA microphone and shout "Yes, shoppers, don't leave yet, 'cos we've got mega bargains now!...
• JACK AND THE BEANSTACK -- by Mark Isaak Long ago, in a finite state far away, there lived a JOVIAL character named Jack.
  Jack and his relations were poor. Often their hash table was bare....
• Long ago, in a finite state far away, there lived a JOVIAL character named Jack.
  Jack and his relations were poor. Often their hash table was bare....
• Africa is God's country, and he can have it. Well, sir, we left New York drunk and early on the morning of February 2.
  After fifteen days on the water and six on the boat, we finally arrived on the shores of Africa....