He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting. -- Jackson Pollock

A hot and torrid bloom Which fans wise flames And begs to be redeemed by forces black and strong Will now oppose my naked will And force me into regions of despair ~ Racter (The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed)

Red Green: [Mike and Dalton are warning Red about the impending hurricane] We don't get hurricanes here. We're too far from the ocean, okay? We get a fair bit of wind, but that's because we're so close to Port Asbestos, and it SUCKS!

It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. -- W. C. Fields

Scientists are very much entangled in their culture and this culture is not pristine, untouched by other cultures and practices. ~ Bruno Latour

Visit[1] the beautiful Smoky Mountains! [1] visit, v.: Come for a week, spend too much money and pay lots of hidden taxes, then leave. We'll be happy to see your money again next year. You can save time by simply sending the money, if you're too busy.

Kirk: All right, Colonel. The truth is, I'm a little green man from Alpha Centauri, a beautiful place. You ought to see it. Colonel Fellini: I am going to lock you up for 200 years. Kirk: That ought to be just about right. "Star Trek: The Original Series: Tomorrow is Yesterday, Season 1"

FORTUNE DISCUSSES THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MEN AND WOMEN: #2 Desserts: A woman will generally admire an ornate dessert for the artistic work it is, praising its creator and waiting a suitable interval before she reluctantly takes a small sliver off one edge. A man will start by grabbing the cherry in the center. Car repair: The average man thinks his Y chromosome contains complete repair manuals for every car made since World War II. He will work on a problem himself until it either goes away or turns into something that "can't be fixed without special tools". The average woman thinks "that funny thump-thump noise" is an accurate description of an automotive problem. She will, however, have the car serviced at the proper intervals and thereby incur fewer problems than the average man.

metabasis transition; transfer; in rhetoric, movement from one topic to another

Waterfall: [see SCRUM]

The Ruffed Pandanga of Borneo and Rotherham spreads out his feathers in his courtship dance and imitates Winston Churchill and Tommy Cooper on one leg. The padanga is dying out because the female padanga doesn't take it too seriously. -- Mike Harding, "The Armchair Anarchist's Almanac"

I think somebody should come up with a way to breed a very large shrimp. That way, you could ride him, then after you camped at night, you could eat him. How about it, science? -- Jack Handey

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted. ~ Bertrand Russell

Not me, guy. I read the Bash man page each day like a Jehovah's Witness reads the Bible. No wait, the Bash man page IS the bible. Excuse me... (More on confusing aliases, taken from comp.os.linux.misc)

Chuck Norris' favorite cereal is Kellogg's Nails 'N' Gravel.

In Pocataligo, Georgia, it is a violation for a woman over 200 pounds and attired in shorts to pilot or ride in an airplane.

Christ was born in 4 B.C.

How do you resign yourself to something that will never be? You stop wanting just that thing. You go numb. Or you kill the agent of desire. -- Jenny Holzer

The Fundamental Truths (6) It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by moving the problem to a different part of the overall network architecture) than it is to solve it. (6a) (corollary). It is always possible to add another level of indirection.