From: IN%"minow@bolt.enet.dec.com" "Martin Minow, ML3-5/U26 14-May-1990 0946" 14-MAY-1990 10:29:55.46 To: _TERRY CC: Subj: more_cookies.txt Received: from CUNYVM.BITNET by SPCVXA.BITNET; Mon, 14 May 90 10:29 EDT Received: from CUNYVM by CUNYVM.BITNET (Mailer R2.03B) with BSMTP id 0460; Mon, 14 May 90 10:25:42 EDT Received: from decpa.pa.dec.com by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.2.2MX) with TCP; Mon, 14 May 90 10:25:39 EDT Received: by decpa.pa.dec.com; id AA03445; Mon, 14 May 90 07:26:00 -0700 Received: from bolt.enet; by decpa.enet; Mon, 14 May 90 07:26:03 PDT Date: Mon, 14 May 90 07:26:03 PDT From: "Martin Minow, ML3-5/U26 14-May-1990 0946" Subject: more_cookies.txt To: address@bolt.enet.dec.com Message-id: <9005141426.AA03445@decpa.pa.dec.com> X-Envelope-to: terry From: RDGENG::LESLIE "Andy `{o}^{o}' Leslie, EDSME (CSSE), VOTS & OSAK 18-Dec-1986 1552" 18-DEC-1986 11:05 To: NEWS_READERS Subj: Sayings of the millenium From: Jonathan Ostrowsky Subject: Quotes of note To: fun@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM From Robert Byrne, THE THIRD 637 BEST THINGS ANYBODY EVER SAID: The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. -- Chamfort I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries. -- Mencken Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge. -- Gaugin Housework can kill you if done right. -- Erma Bombeck Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes. -- Thoreau Fashions are induced epidemics. -- Shaw A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that begins to bunch them. -- Mencken Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn. -- Garrison Keillor There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world with suprise and horror. -- Maugham The difference between pornography and erotic is lighting. -- Gloria Leonard The happiest time in any man's life is just after the first divorce.-- Galbraith Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth. -- Erma Bombeck The volume of paper expands to fill the available briefcases. -- Jerry Brown Gardner's Law: Eighty-seven percent of all people in all professions are incompetent. -- John Gardner Business is a good game -- lots of competition and minimum of rules. 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