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#101671 04/30/03 10:04 AM
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D'oh!

Funny. I had an image of a right jolly old elf about to ascend the chimney.


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right jolly old elf about to ascend the chimney

ah, the old Santa Conspiracy Clause...



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#101673 04/30/03 12:51 PM
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the accusation was that we conspire to it

We must breathe together or we shall certainly breathe separately.
    - B. Franklin


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Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent respiration. -- Thomas Alva Edison





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Yikes! I thought that was Einstein? .... and I also thought the other 99% was perspiration. Another cherished belief dashed to smithereens.


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Einstein

Naw. Einstein said, "Half this game is 90% breathing."


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Oh, I see. This is a joke y'all have made.

~apologies to Madonna and the apocryphal Blikk interview.


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"Ya can't fool me! There ain't no sanity clause!"

- A Night at the Opera


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"Naw. Einstein said, "Half this game is 90% breathing."

But my daughter told me, "Mom, there are three kinds of people in this world. Ones that are good at math and ones that aren't."


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"This is odd, yes. ... If you think about it, careful ought to be the opposite of carefree! "

I betcha the all-purpose additive "-ridden" would go even farther from "carefree", i.e. "care-ridden".


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