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TIME TRAVEL --- TIMING (GOOD) --- TIPPING
TIRED --- TITLES --- TOASTS
TOBACCO --- TODAY

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TIME TRAVEL

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If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody
else flying forward into the future, it's probably best
to avoid eye contact.
--Jack Handey (1949— )
American comedian and comedy writer.
_Deeper Thoughts_ [1993]

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All you would have to do is walk around the North Pole
in a counter clockwise direction, crossing back over the
International Dateline for every 360° rotation. Each of
these rotations would send you a day into the past.
The implications are limitless!
--"Time Travel for Dummies"



TIMING (GOOD)

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A man finds joy in giving an apt reply--
and how good is a timely word!
--Bible
Proverbs 15:23 NIV

Observe due measure, for right timing is
in all things the most important factor.
--Hesiod (c. 700 B.C.)
Greek poet.
_Works and Days_, Line 694

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opportune op-uhr-TOON; -TYOON, adjective:
Suitable for a given purpose or occasion; timely.



TIPPING

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see "FOOD & DRINK" for related links


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Alfred E. Smith (1873—1944)
American politician.

During one of his terms as governor of New York,
Smith was late for a broadcast he was due to make.
He hailed a taxi to take him to the radio station,
but the driver, who did not recognize the governor,
refused to take him. He explained that he was in
a hurry himself, anxious to be home in time to
hear Governor Smith talk on the radio. Smith,
flattered, held out a five-dollar bill and repeated
his request. The driver's eyes lit up. 'Hop in,
mister,' he said, 'and to hell with the governor.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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In spite of the personal relationship symbolized by a
tip, people who receive tips are often regarded, on the
job, as non-persons. Taxi-drivers' fares commonly discuss
their personal lives and finances, kiss, curse, and fight
in the back of a cab as though the driver's seat were
empty. Waiters are supposed not to sit, eat, drink, or
talk to each other within sight of customers: ideally they
are gliding, murmuring automata, swift but scarcely
human.

The bestowal of tips gives modern people one of the rare
opportunities left them to behave as the nobility once did,
for the gentry were taught to pretend that any members
of the lower orders who were in their presence, and upon
whom they depended, were not really there.

--Margaret Visser
South-Aftican born Canadian professor, writer, and broadcaster.
"Tipping," from _The Way We Are_.



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TIRED

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see: "THE BODY"


desiccate (verb)
1 to dry up
2 to preserve (a food) by drying :
3 to drain of emotional or intellectual vitality
intransitive senses : to become dried up
desiccation /"de-si-'kA-sh&n/ noun
desiccative /'de-si-"kA-tiv/ adjective
desiccator /'de-si-"kA-t&r/ noun

effete [eh-FEET], adjective:
1. No longer capable of producing young; infertile; barren; sterile.
2. Exhausted of energy; incapable of efficient action; worn out.
3. Marked by self-indulgence or decadence; degenerate.
4. Overrefined; effeminate.
Ex.: Nor was it only the confirmed anti-democrats who
thought democracy effete and worn out.
--Mark Mazower,
_Dark Continent_

enervate [EN-ur-vayt], transitive verb:
1. To deprive of vigor, force, or strength; to
render feeble; to weaken.
2. To reduce the moral or mental vigor of.
Ex.: The conquerors were enervated by luxury.
--Edward Gibbon,
_The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_

inanition [in-uh-NISH-uhn], noun:
1. The condition or quality of being empty.
2. Exhaustion, as from lack of nourishment.
3. Lack of vitality or spirit.
Ex.: Even without, or before, revolution or foreign
invasion, states can decline of their own inanition.
--Harold Perkin,
"The rise and fall of empires: the role of
surplus extraction,"
_History Today_, [April 2002]

oscitancy (noun) ['ah-si-tκn-si]
Yawning or a yawn, hence
the drowsiness or dullness
associated with yawning.

wan [WAHN], adjective:
1. Having a pale or sickly hue; pale; pallid.
2. Lacking vitality, as from weariness, illness, or unhappiness; feeble.
3. Lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble.



TITLES

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MEMBER OF THE WASHINGTON PRESS CORPS: Do you
prefer to be called Mr. Secretary or Dr. Secretary?
KISSINGER: I do not stand on protocol. If you just
call me Excellency, it will be okay.
--Henry Alfred Kissinger (1923— )
German-born American diplomat.
After being appointed Secretary of State,
in Walter Isaacson _Kissinger: A Biography_ Ch. 22 [1992].

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the
superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
--George Bernard Shaw (1856—1950)
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist
propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize
for Literature in 1925 [he didn't accept it.]
in _Man and Superman_ [1903]



TOASTS

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see: "IRISH TOASTS"
see "FOOD & DRINK" for other related links


Here's to our wives and girlfriends
... may they never meet!
--Groucho [Julius Henry] Marx (1895—1977)
American film comedian.

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Since you, Mr. H. will marry black Kate,
Accept of good wishes for that blessed state:
May you fight all the day like a dog and a cat,
And yet ev'ry year produce a new brat.

May she never be honest — you never be sound,
May her tongue like a clapper be heard a mile round;
Till abandon'd by joy, and deserted by grace,
You hang yourselves both in the very same place.

--Lady Mary Wortley Montagu [nιe Pierrepont] (1689—1762)
English writer.
_Epithalamium_

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Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send,
Long health, long youth, long pleasure — and a friend.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.

May the hinges of friendship never rust,
or the wings of love lose a feather.
--Edward Bannerman Ramsey (1793—1872)
[Dean of the University of Edinburgh.]
_Reminiscences of Scottish Life: A Toast_

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love,
Nor a friend to know me,
All I ask is the heav'n above,
And the roads below me!
--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850—1894)
Scottish essayist, poet, and novelist.

Champagne to our real friends, and
real pain to our sham friends.
--Robert Smith Surtees (1803—1864)
English sporting journalist and novelist.
_Jorrock's Jaunts and Jollities_ [1838]

Let us toast the fools; but for them, the rest
of us could not succeed.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.

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As we start the new year, let's get down
on our knees to thank God that we are
still on our feet.
--Irish toast

When we drink, we get drunk.
When we get drunk, we fall asleep.
When we fall asleep, we commit no sin.
When we commit no sin, we go to heaven.
So, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven!
--Irish toast

Here's to a long life and a merry one.
A quick death and an easy one.
A pretty girl and an honest one.
A cold beer — and another one!
--Irish toast

May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back,
The sun shine warm upon your face,
The rain fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
--Irish blessing

May you be poor in misfortune,
rich in blessings,
slow to make enemies,
quick to make friends.
But rich or poor, quick or slow,
may you know nothing but happiness
from this day forward.
--Irish blessing

May you have warm words on a cold evening,
a full moon on a dark night,
and the road downhill all the way to your door.
--Irish blessing

To the wise women here tonight, a word of advice:
distrust men in general, but not us in particular.
--anon.

To the United States, where each man is protected
by the Constitution regardless of whether he has ever
taken the time to read it.
--anon.

I raise my glass to say,
It's your birthday, that's true;
And to celebrate the fact
That I'm younger than you.
--anon.

To babies — they will make love stronger, days shorter,
nights longer, bankrolls smaller, home happier, clothes
shabbier, the past forgotten, and the future worth
living for.
--anon.

May all your teeth fall out - but one should
remain for a toothache.
--anon.

May you turn into a sparrow and owe your existence
to the droppings of a horse.
--anon.

Here's to our creditors — may they be endowed with
the four assets, faith, hope, charity, and Alzheimer's.
--anon.

To the birthday girl — how am I to remember
your birthday when you never look any older?
--anon.

Here's to us, my good, fat friend,
To bless the things we eat;
For it has been full many a year,
Since we have seen our feet.

May you be as lucky as a mosquito in a nudist colony!

Here's looking at you, though heaven knows it's an effort.

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wassail [WAH-sul; wah-SAYL], noun:
1. An expression of good wishes on a festive occasion, especially
in drinking to someone.
2. An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking;
a drinking bout; a carouse.
3. The liquor used for a wassail; especially, a beverage formerly much
used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine)
flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.
Ex.: Christmas often means plum pudding, fruitcake, roast goose and
wassail.
--Florence Fabricant, "Recipes to Summon the Holiday Spirit"
_New York Times_ [21 December 1988]



TOBACCO

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The roots of tobacco plants must go clear through to hell.
--Thomas Alva Edison (1847—1931)
American inventor.
Diary [12 July 1885].

I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them
were smoking two cigarettes at a time. That's the kind
of customers we need!
--Jesse Helms (1921—2008)
American politician; five-term U.S.
Senator from North Carolina [1973-2003].

Tobacco is a dirty weed. I like it.
It satisfies no normal need. I like it.
It makes you thin, it makes you lean,
It takes the hair right off your bean,
It's the worst darn stuff I've ever seen,
I like it.
--Graham Lee Hemminger (1895—1950)
American advertising executive.
_Penn State Froth_ [November 1915]

A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful
to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking
fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke
of the pit that is bottomless.
--James I (1566—1625)
King of Scotland [as James VI 1567—1625],
and the first Stuart king of England [1603—1625].
_A Counterblast to Tobacco_ [1604]

For thy sake, Tobacco, I
Would do anything but die.
--Charles Lamb (1775—1834)
English essayist.
"A Farewell to Tobacco"

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When you think of the relative harm done by tobacco and drugs, it is
amazing that tobacco company executives are treated as respectable
people. They wear suits, and they have fine lawyers, but they do much
more harm than drug peddlers.

The attorney general of Mississippi, Mike Moore, gave that reality blunt
expression last weekend on CBS television's '60 Minutes.' It was a revised
version of the program originally held back for fear of a lawsuit by the
Brown and Williamson Tobacco Corporation.

'I'm used to dealing with cocaine dealers and crack dealers,' Mr. Moore
said. 'And I have never seen damage done like the tobacco company
has done. There is no comparison.'

--Anthony Lewis (1927— )
American liberal author and columnist.
"Prohibition Folly" _New York Times_ [12 February 1996]

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[...] the passion of all proper people, and he who lives without
tobacco has nothing else to live for. Not only does it refresh
and cleanse men's brains, but it guides their souls in the ways
of virtue, and by it one learns to be a man of honor.
--Jean Moliθre [Jean Baptiste Poquelin]
(1622—1673) French comic dramatist.

Tobacco drieth the brain, dimmeth the sight, vitiateth
the smell, hurteth the stomach, destroyeth the
concoction, disturbeth the humours and spirits,
corrupteth the breath, induceth a trembling
of the limbs, exsiccateth the windpipe, lungs,
and liver, annoyeth the milt, scorcheth the
heart, and causeth the blood to be adjusted.
--Tobias Venner (1577—1660)

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We can imagine no reason why, with
ordinary care, human toes could not
be left out of chewing tobacco, and if
toes are found in chewing tobacco, it
seems to us that somebody has been
very careless.
--Pillars vs. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
[1918]



TODAY

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Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He, who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.
(Translation of Horace's _Odes_, bk. 3 # 29.)

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
The important thing is to not stop questioning.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.

There are many fine things which you mean
to do some day, under what you think will
be more favorable circumstances. But the
only time that is surely yours is the present,
hence this is the time to speak the word of
appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous
deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless
friend, to sacrifice self a little more for
others. Today is the day in which to express
your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to
do at least one worthy thing which you have
long postponed, and to use your God-given
abilities for the enrichment of some less
fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can
make your life ...significant and worthwhile.
The present is yours to do with it as you
will.
--Grenville Kleiser (1868—1953)
American writer of humor and inspiration.
In _Light from Many Lamps_,
Lillian Eichler Watson (Editor).

We are tomorrow's past.
--Mary Webb (1881—1927)
English novelist.
_Precious Bane_, "Foreword"

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TODAY IN HISTORY


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