This is a joint WELL-GREX project, the first of many.

 We need 1000 new quotes to revamp the forture program!

49 responses total.

In that case, we need a !gloss

Spench; n: verbal vomit

Spench; v: [use your imagination]

"A smile is just a frown upside down on the face of a clown
in a deep sleep"   -- Devo

What sort of quotes are we looking for?

   Ones worth using.

Language is a virus from outer space
And hearing your name is better
than seeing your face
   -- Laurie Anderson

Everybody's looking for something.
Some of them want to use you.
Some of them want to be used by you.
Some of them want to abuse you.
Some of them want to be abused.
  -- Eurythmics

There *is* no moral.  It's just a bunch of *stuff* that happened.
  -- Homer  (Simpson)

        Errrr Language is a virus is sampled from that funky old geezer William
S. Burroughs.  Say when is he going to join accordion?  And that reminds me,
where are the guest stars and cameo apperances?

A matrix A satisfies its own coefficient polynomial.
  -- Cauchy-Euler

I am not a crook.
  - Richard Nixon

I think.
  -- Rene desCartes, being quoted out of context again.

I am.

        --God

God is dead.  -- Nietscze
And no-one cares.  -- Trent Reznor

I was waiting for someone to tell me Language is a virus is Wm. S.
Burroughs.  But I think that particular quote is attributable
to Ms. Anderson, since she extended it.

Personally, I prefer my Burroughs with an Anderson filter.

Did Trent really hyphenate "no-one" like that?  

I wonder if he has a vitamin D deficiency.

Well, Trent sang it.
What's wrong with hyphenating it?

All lies and jest.
Still, a man he hears what he wants to and he 
disregards the rest.
                        -Paul Simon

Let them hate, so long as they fear.
                        -Lucius Accius

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of
-Blaise Pascal

I cut down trees, I skip and jump,
 I like to press wild flowers.
 I put on women's clothing
 And hang around in bars.
                - Monty Python's Flying Circus

Oh  bury me not on the lone prarie
Where the lone coyotes may howl o'er my grave
                                -The dying cowboy

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburgers.

Is that true about sacred cows?  Who said it?

(And the first time through, I thought it said
"scared cows")

))Why did I think that was funny?((

     "it was in tune when I bought it!"



                                     ---anon

Abbie Hoffman said it.

Oh, my.  Gail is *here*!

Why doesn't the fellow who says "I'm no speechmaker," let it go at
that instead of giving a demonstration.

  --  Kim Hubbard

   There is no "here" here.


                                       ----anon

                        anon was just lost.

(No one is two words, she said in her best orthographically correct voice)

I still think Trent Reznor must have a vitamin D deficiency.  It probably
explains everything.

"Orthographically correct."  I like it.  But I'm
going to generalize it before further use:

"Orthogonally correct."

Yes and no.

"Shut up!" (Let him talk.)

I like that one, too.  

        8*)

Hunger justifies the middle classes.
      -Julien Torma

Help conquer the IQ shortage: worry less and think more.
     -Robert Anton Wilson

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.
     -Niels Bohr to a young physicist

I contradict myself?
Very well, then: I contradict myself.
I am large: I contain mulititudes.
     -Walt Whitman

Once upon the time there was a child reading a book.  This book was
about a child who was reading a book.  That book was about...
Okay, okay, we get the picture.

(heard at a party where several people were drunk)

That's got rather tight recursion, for a party story at least.

Well the person telling the story was more drunk than most.  The real story
was that the child (him as a kid) was reading a book where a child was reading
the book and when the child in the book put the book down, he put his book
down and told his father that if the child in the book stopped reading, he
would stop reading too.
(The okay, okay line was said by somebody else, if that caused any confusion)

That reminds me of the book called How To Make This Book. It followed the
entire process from writing to editing to publishing to putting it on the
shelf. If anyone knows where I can get a copy, please let me know.

Books about books about books about books.  Wow, it's like a telescoping
telescopic telescope.  Mirrors reflecting mirrors, anyone?

This sentence is false.

Now it's sentances about sentances about sentances!  Heavenly Harors!
(which logic are we using?  Boolean, or noneuclidian???? no!  it's accordion
logic!  cannoe humor?

This sentence is five words long.

No!  Not a post-industrialist, literalist, nihilist, self referential,
minimalist sentance!  We're all *doomed*!  Doomed!

Now how do we get these into the fortune file?

sorry, fortune 500 doesn't accept anything that doesn't make money.....
well, I suppose to get it in you could start quoting Ayn Rand......
isn't that all of the above with a garnishing of baldfaced greed?

Money's good,
Nature is bad.

We should all like continued industrialization,
let's kill a tree and exploit it.

Now kill your neighbor with polution and exploit him/her.  
(after all, we are politicaly correct, are we not?)

Well, ms.mr, that natural end for all this is the most spectacular
selfdestruction...worth every penny for intertainment value.  
But you have to buy front row tickets from god.
(goddess?  no, she's not quite up for that)
But I'd rather reserect the Battletwinkie!  We aint for order, but discord
is accord with an ieon added!  This is no-person's land of spelling....
hey, where's otaking?  My pal!

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