Goes (Went) over like a lead balloon.
Ro Laren: I don't have all the answers; I've never been dead before. "Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Next Phase [5.24], Season 5"
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Lineage In general, a chronological sequence of avout who, prior to the Third Sack reforms, acquired and held property exceeding the bolt, chord, and sphere, each conferring the property upon a chosen heir at the moment of death. In this sense, frequently connected with Dowments. Also, sometimes used as a shorthand term for the Old Lineage; see Lineage, Old. ~ From the glossary of 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson
* Knghtbrd pelts wichert with NERF darts * wichert notes there are no ICBM nerfs yet and ignores kngtbrd
Speaking as someone who has delved into the intricacies of PL/I, I am sure that only Real Men could have written such a machine-hogging, cycle-grabbing, all-encompassing monster. Allocate an array and free the middle third? Sure! Why not? Multiply a character string times a bit string and assign the result to a float decimal? Go ahead! Free a controlled variable procedure parameter and reallocate it before passing it back? Overlay three different types of variable on the same memory location? Anything you say! Write a recursive macro? Well, no, but Real Men use rescan. How could a language so obviously designed and written by Real Men not be intended for Real Man use?
Officer: We've analyzed their attack, sir, and there is a danger. Should I have your ship standing by? Governor Tarkin: Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances.
20 dozen bottles of excellent Old Tawny Port, sold to pay for charges, the owner having lost sight of, and bottled by us last year.
Political history is far too criminal a subject to be a fit thing to teach children. -- W.H. Auden
Packages should build-depend on what they should build-depend. -- Santiago Vila on debian-devel
Some people have told me they don't think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen a angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100mph. They'd be a lot more careful about what they say if they had. -- Linus Torvalds, announcing Linux v2.0
It is the wise bird who builds his nest in a tree.
Good night, Austin, Texas, wherever you are!
The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries #45 The size of the combat bonus is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.
Yo momma is so fat that everytime she walks in high heels, she strikes oil!
To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up. -- Ogden Nash
Reporter, n.: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
question = ( to ) ? be : ! be; -- Wm. Shakespeare
I think irc isn't going to work though---we're running out of topic space! -- Joseph Carter
More than 180 countries celebrate Earth Day together every April 22nd.