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Hey, what do you know - you guys don't even know when WINTER is !>
>Whaddayamean? Winter is when the warm wet season turns into the cool wet season. Those are the only two seasons; Autumn and Spring are just amorphous (wet) interludes.
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>In case you are wondering: yes, it is raining outside. What a surprise.
In my salad days I made it a point to ski at least 100 days a year. Lake Tahoe was full of Kiwis chasing the Endless Winter. Never got down there but it has always been on my life list.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
