More than 300 million people in the world speak English and the rest, it sometimes seems, try to.
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When I was growing up I used to think that the best thing about coming from Des Moines was that it meant you didn't come from anywhere else in Iowa. By Iowa standards, Des Moines is a mecca of cosmopolitanism, a dynamic hub of wealth and education . . .Bill Bryson
My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.
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Nothing gives the English more pleasure, in a quiet but determined sort of way, than to do things oddly.
Bill Bryson
Incidentally, disturbance from cosmic background radiation is something we have all experienced. Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive, and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this ancient remnant of the Big Bang. The next time you complain that there is nothing on, remember that you can always watch the birth of the universe.
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A bank robber in Los Angeles told the clerk not to give him cash, but to deposit the money in his checking account.
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For a long time it puzzled me how something so expensive, so leading edge, could be so useless, and then it occurred to me that a computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a perfect match.
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