Dr Wingnut

Author: Dr Wingnut

  • Wisdom

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    Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.Publius Syrus

  • In-flight announcements

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    All too rarely, airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight “safety lecture” and announcements a bit more entertaining.  Here are some real examples that have been heard or reported: On a Southwest flight (SW has no assigned seating, you just sit where you want) passengers were apparently having a hard time choosing, when…

  • What they said at the Olympics

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    Here are the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators during the [2004] Summer Olympics that they would like to take back:Weightlifting commentator: “This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria.  I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.”Dressage commentator: “This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal…

  • Luxury

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    Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty.  It is not.  It is the opposite of vulgarity.Coco Chanel

  • How times change

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    I just picked up the September issue of Sys Admin (the journal for UNIX and Linux system administrators), and right there on the cover is an article titled, “Using LSD to Sync a Solaris Environment.”  I’m old enough to remember when that acronym (LSD) didn’t mean LDAP Software Distribution, it meant lysergic acid diethylamide (AKA…

  • Utility

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    Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent.  Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.Thomas Edison

  • Forever

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    Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.Marcus Fabius Quintilian