Message of the Day

Zach's message of the day is gone. The quotes are still around (and might someday make it into another QOTD system) but for the moment I'm going to take the lazy way out and simply install an interface to fortune. Below are 5 such messages.

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Celebrity Schadenfreude:
	Lurid thrills derived from talking about celebrity deaths.
		-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
		   Culture"

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ROMEO:		Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
MERCUTIO:	No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide
			as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.

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The reason it's called "Grape Nuts" is that it contains "dextrose", which is
also sometimes called "grape sugar," and also because "Grape Nuts" is
catchier, in terms of marketing, than "A Cross Between Gerbil Food and
Gravel," which is what it tastes like.
		-- Dave Barry, "Tips for Writer's"

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"Can't you just gesture hypnotically and make him disappear?"
    "It does not work that way.  RUN!"
		-- Hadji on metaphyics and Mandrake in "Johnny Quest"

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If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from?

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