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	More than a name,
	More than a verb,
	Bob is a way of life.

	[Bobness] accounts for Bobs breaking out in cold sweats
	whenever in the vicinity of mimes, Renaissance fairs,
	Vandyke beards, tarot cards, New Age music, and people
	who say, "Ciao!" [unless they are Italian, of course.]

	To Bobs, all women are handfuls.  This is the highest of
	praise, really.  Whether they admit it or not, Bobs need
	to be kept guessing; uncertainty of this sort informs their
	starkly realistic view of existence.
		-- The Bob Book
		[This stuff is really true.  I don't understand why.
		 Must be a self-selection phenomenon.]
		[Remember, I was a Bob before it was a fad.]
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``It's simple to say.  It's easy to spell ... Bob's the same in
everyone's language.''

-- Canadian bartender Steve Tomkins, on a grass-roots campaign to name
the western half of the country's Northwest Territories ``Bob'' when
the region splits in two in 1999.

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New National Anthem of the House of Saud: "Onward, Christian soldiers!"
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Have you heard about the Buddhist AI Planner?
	It tries to convince you that the blocks are just fine
	where they are.
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Excerpts from "Outland", Sunday comics, 2/19/95:

The future, Opus, will be glorious!
Technology will be our religion!
Information will equal happiness!
...
You can't hug in cyberspace.
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"Personal Appearance Before the Appeal Board -- may be requested if you
 are eligible to request an appeal to the appeal board.  You may appeal
 to the appeal board without requesting a personal appearance before the
 appeal board, but if you wish to appear before the appeal board you
 must specifically ask for the appearance in addition to requesting the
 appeal."
  -- The best paragraph from SSS Form 7, Dec 72
     [my Vietnam-era draft card]
     [Translation: GO AWAY!]
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