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The trouble with being punctual is that people think you have nothing more important to do.

Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to execute a job?
A: Four; three to hold it down, and one to rip its' head off.

"Really?? What a coincidence, I'm shallow too!!"

November: the eleventh twelfth of a weariness.

If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Support bacteria - it's the only culture some people have.

Since we're all here, we must not be all there.

Proof techniques #2: Proof by Oddity
   Sample: To prove that horses have an infinite number of legs.
1) Horses have an even number of legs.
2) They have two legs in back and fore legs in front.
3) This makes a total of six legs, which is certainly an odd number of legs for a horse.
4) But the only number that is both odd and even is infinity.
5) Therefore, horses must have an infinite number of legs.
Topics to be covered in the future include proof by:
   Intimidation
   Gesticulation (handwaving)
   "Try it, it works"
   Constipation (I was just sitting there and...)
   Blatant assertion
   Changing all the 2's to n's
   Mutual consent
   Lack of a counterexample, and
   "It stands to reason"