Nobody gets to run the mill by doing run-of-the-mill work. 

     - Thomas J. Frye 

"... you never, for instance, hear people say, 'Is that a wad of undiscarded
 belly button fluff, or are you just glad to see me?'..."
                        -- The Usenet Oracle

"The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears
comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner."

                                       - Roseanne

"Upon the upland road
 Ride easy, stranger:
 Surrender to the sky
 Your heart of anger."
  - James K. Baxter
    "High Country Weather"

ON EXPLANATION OF THE END
   "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that,
   lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of
   their C programs."
        -- Robert Firth