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Myq Kaplan's avatar

Dear Benjamin,

Thank you for sharing as always. My favorite quotes this week:

“There’s birth, there’s death, and in between there’s maintenance.”

— Tom Robbins

“My life is a constant struggle between the maintenance of my apartment and the maintenance of my sanity.”

— Fran Lebowitz

“Women are the true maintenance class. Society is built upon their acquiescence and upon their small and necessary labours.”

— Phyllis Diller

“If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in.”

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

Thank you!

Love

Myq

Benjamin Errett's avatar

Whoops, that ain’t Phyllis Diller! Sally Kempton, it should read! Will fix on web.

Also, thank you Myq for your inspirational fitness advice: Call them lay-downs instead of sit-ups to focus on the positive!

Max's avatar

I realize that this is the Thinking Person's weekly, witty read but, Heavens to Murgatroyd, I had to look up the meanings of Kintsugi and Humanwashing before deciding where to cast my ballot on today's poll.

Benjamin Errett's avatar

Murgatroyd remains the funniest traditional English surname, the one slipped into family trees as a gag that no one has yet noticed

Stephen D Forman's avatar

There is no more somber enemy of Mierle Laderman Ukeles than entropy.

Benjamin Errett's avatar

Rust never gets a good night’s sleep; it tosses and turns and finally gets up at 1am to oxidize everything in the fridge