"Just because we pay inexperienced strangers to tell us how to do our jobs,
 that doesn't mean we're morons!"
"Yeah! It's a coincidence."
                        -- Wally, Dilbert

Lady Astor: "Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!" Winston Churchill:
       "Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober."

"Take your work seriously but never take yourself
seriously; and do not take what happens either to
yourself or your work seriously." 

    - Booth Tarkington 

Although plastic was brought into industrial use in 1909 by L.H. Baekland 
of Yonkers, it was not until the end of World War II that the modern 
miracle substance was used in a wide variety of consumer goods, among 
them speedboats, dentures and flamingos. Previously flamingos were made 
of cement. Before that they were made by other flamingos.


- William E. Geist, The New York Times

"Flooding... No really, flooding. Bring an Ark."
                        -- Topic of #darksex, set by Dorianne
                                (aka Sabrina Goodpaster)