One of the unexpected bonuses of the Christmas shopping season: new sig lines. Amidst the many thousands of t-shirts showing up in various catalogs, there tend to be a few pearls of wit that are suitable for transfer into the subhead of this blog, or my GTalk status line, or something like that. E.g.,<\/p>\n
\nCan we declare a snow day?
\nDrum roll, please
\nSchroedinger’s Cat: Wanted, Dead or Alive<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nAnd other such bon mots<\/em>.<\/p>\n
I never said I was original, just creative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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