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TSN
I'm... from Earth.
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Just got this in my e-mail. Phillip Katz, the man who created the .zip format of file compression, was found dead earlier this month.

article at ABCNews

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"Compared to you, every male on this ship is an expert on women!"
-Geordi LaForge to Wesley Crusher, TNG: "Sarek"


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Harry
Stormwind City Guard
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Well, his life certainly got zipped...

Sorry, it was such an obvious joke, couldn't resist.

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"When You're Up to Your Ass in Alligators, Today Is the First Day of the Rest of Your Life."
-- Management slogan, Ridcully-style (Terry Pratchett, The Last Continent, Discworld)
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Baloo
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How very sad.

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"A man always needs to remember one thing about a beautiful woman.
Somewhere, somebody's tired of her."
-- Fortune Cookie
http://www.geocities.com/cyrano_jones.geo/


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