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<wob_jonas> learn Aristotle said that every illness can be cured by balancing the four vitreous humors, and everyone believed him for two thousand years, even though people still died of illnesses. It wasn\'t until the 20th century that Szent-Gy\xc3\xb6rgyi Albert realized that Aristotle didn\'t find fifth kind of vitreous humor, vitamin C, because the Greek alphabet
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Q:	How was Thomas J. Watson buried?
A:	9 edge down.
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If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are
going to start thinking you're from New York.   :-)
		-- Larry Wall to Dan Bernstein in <10187@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
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Diseases for Kisses (Hyperkarma):
	A deeply rooted belief that punishment will somehow always be
far greater than the crime: ozone holes for littering.
		-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
		   Culture"
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I don't get no respect.
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Assembléia é uma cambada de parlamentares.
                -- Millôr Fernandes
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"...proper attention to Earthly needs of the poor, the depressed and the
downtrodden, would naturally evolve from dynamic, articulate, spirited
awareness of the great goals for Man and the society he conspired to erect."
		-- David Baker, paraphrasing Harold Urey, in "The History of Manned Space Flight"
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In 1869 the waffle iron was invented for people who had wrinkled waffles.
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I call them as I see them.  If I can't see them, I make them up.
		-- Biff Barf
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meetings, n.:
	A place where minutes are kept and hours are lost.
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Seleznick's Theory of Holistic Medicine:
	Ice Cream cures all ills.  Temporarily.
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