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Quotation of the day:

"You spend money on bombs, and in 10 years they're out of date, but [if] you build bridges, they last forever." Tung-Yen Lin's response to President Ronald Reagan when presented with the National Medal of Science in 1986. Tung-Yen Lin (1912-2003) shocked the President by presenting him with a design for an "Intercontinental Peace Bridge" across the Bering Strait, linking the US with the USSR.


Just, yeah.

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Random "Hopefully This Only Happens In A Shelter" Story -

I was just up in our Receiving Lobby (where we check in and, err, "receive" animals) and a guy was turning in two beautiful purebred Aussie Shepards.

The one puts his nose up my calf-length skirt so I pull it out and say "not on the first date" cause, err, it makes people laugh and relieves a bit of tension.

Instead of laughing... the guy goes (really seriously), "You might want to reconsider, have you seen his papers?"

Um, ew? I was tempted to say something along the lines of, you haven't seen the list of my squicks for porn exchanges, have you? Bestiality is one of 'em, bub.

But I didn't. Instead, I said, "thanks but he's not my type".