"Fran Drescher's rise to fame is quite a miracle. Aside from just being
 your typical annoying New Yorker, she has a laugh that sounds like
 somebody is ice-climbing up the back of a baboon."
                        -- Mr. Cranky, reviewing "The Beautician and the
                                Beast"

It works better if you plug it in.

One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to
       take my little nephew to Disneyland, but instead I drove him to an
       old burned-out warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "Disneyland burned
       down." He cried and cried, but I think deep down he thought it was
       a pretty good joke. I started to drive over to the real
       Disneyland, but it was getting pretty late.

"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which
when you looked at it the right way did not become still more
complicated."

     - Poul Anderson 

"Zen: the sound of the ax chopping. Chopping logic."

                                          --Edward Abbey