"If you tape a piece of buttered bread to 
the back of a cat butter side up and drop 
the cat, which will hit the ground, the 
cats fet or the buttered side of the 
bread?...Neither the assembly will reach 
a elevation of one foot from the ground 
and start to spin uncontrollably, 
perpetual motion."

German in the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone
                                    using a sick bag on a 747.

                                       - - - Willy Rushton

I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money.  They said, "What for?"
I said, "I'm going to buy some sugar."

"Right. So nobody can print. Which is a good thing. It's a _good_ thing
 that nobody can print."
                        -- me

* They say that when a man holds a woman's hand before marriage, it
       is love; after marriage it is self defence.