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• Breathe deep the gathering gloom. Watch lights fade from every room.
  Bed-sitter people look back and lament; another day's useless energies spent....
• When I was young, my family bought a color TV. Our neigbors, who were poorer, had only a black-and-white set.
  They bought a piece of cellophane, shaded from red through yellow to blue, and taped it over their screen, so they could claim that they had a color TV, too....
• Oh give me your pity! I'm on a committee, We attend and amend Which means that from morning And contend and defend to night, Without a conclusion in sight.
  We confer and concur, We defer and demur, We revise the agenda And reiterate all of our thoughts....
• Quote #519 My favorite PL/I type conversion example
  Declare A, B, and C as three-character strings. B='123'...
• TV host: The colors of the Italian flag are red, white, and what?
  [all four simultaneously] Bart: Blue! Orange!...
• aga n. [WPI] A cuspy but bogus raving story about N random broken people.
  Here is a classic example of the saga form, as told by Guy L....
• So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawn Which once he wore
  The glory from his gray hairs gone For evermore! -- John G. Whittier (1807-1892) -- Ichabod!...
• A novel approach is to remove all power from the system, which removes most system overhead so that resources can be fully devoted to doing nothing.
  Benchmarks on this technique are promising; tremendous amounts of nothing can be produced in this manner....