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Why, anybody can have a brain. That's a very mediocre commodity. Every pusillanimous creature that crawls on the Earth or slinks through slimy seas has a brain. Back where I come from, we have universities, seats of great learning, where men go to become great thinkers.
And when they come out, they think deep thoughts and with no more brains than you have! But they have one thing you haven't got -- a diploma.

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Alexander von Below

In Memoriam
of my beloved Grandfather

Dr. Gerd von Below
11.9.1904 - 17.10.2001

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The f-word

"Whoever after due and proper warning shall be heard to utter the abominable word "Frisco," which has no linguistic or other warrant, shall be deemed guilty of a High Misdemeanor, and shall pay into the Imperial Treasury as penalty the sum of twenty-five dollars."

-- Joshua Norton I., Emperor of the United States of America and Protector of Mexico, 1872

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