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| #5161 | | The curse of the Irish is not that they don't know the words to a song --
it's that they know them *___all*.
-- Susan Dooley
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| #5162 | | The Czechs announced after Sputnik that they, too, would launch a satellite.
Of course, it would orbit Sputnik, not Earth!
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| #5163 | | The difference between America and England is that the English think 100
miles is a long distance and the Americans think 100 years is a long time.
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| #5164 | | The egg cream is psychologically the opposite of circumcision -- it
*pleasurably* reaffirms your Jewishness.
-- Mel Brooks
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| #5165 | | The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable
in full pursuit of the uneatable.
-- Oscar Wilde, "A Woman of No Importance"
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| #5166 | | The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach
their children to speak it.
-- G. B. Shaw
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| #5167 | | The English instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest
about it.
-- James Agate, British film and drama critic
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| #5168 | | [The French Riviera is] a sunny place for shady people.
-- Somerset Maugham
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| #5169 | | The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury. Due north of the
center we find the South End. This is not to be confused with South
Boston which lies directly east from the South End. North of the South
End is East Boston and southwest of East Boston is the North End.
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| #5170 | | The goys have proven the following theorem...
-- Physicist John von Neumann, at the start of a classroom
lecture.
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