- It is not clear to me that the adjective "crispy" should ever be used to modify the noun "statement" in a professional publication. - Even so, a comma should be inserted between two consecutive adjectives: "a succinct, crispy statement" - 120 reviewers: fail

And the aqueducts.

And its safe to walk the streets at night.

Don't you find it at all interesting that a world economy governed by a "number" used for identification was predicted 2000 years ago?

My guess is that those smart logicians have figured out that wall street is just some sort of shell game - and now wall street is offering to cut them in on the deal to keep them quiet.

Where I worked, whenever you were upgraded to the newest, most powerful machine, there was some incentive to name your machine in such a way as to discourage others from creeping on and stealing cycles.

Slow sounding names was one way. Names that were hard to spell was another.

I almost named my machine "camouflage"

I settled on "potato" (it *was* the Dan Quayle era, after all)

I'm intrigued by the fact that within the DNA structure of humans we find:

    male : XY chromosome
    female: XX chromosome

    Not to say that you should think of the X chromosome as Adam's rib ..