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@@ -50602,6 +50602,12 @@ of its twelfth story apartment, and crushed six innocents in an insane bid
 for freedom.
 		-- Stig's Inferno
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+They're basically very smelly houseplants until they get to the crawling
+age.  You're constantly terrified that they're going to randomly die on
+you, but the rules for preventing that outcome are straightforward and
+hard to forget.
+		-- Thomas Ptacek, giving advice to a new father
+%
 They're giving bank robbing a bad name.
 		-- John Dillinger, on Bonnie and Clyde
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