The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for May 24 and 25, 1992. "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed Noninc. and David Alan Wright. Compilation copyright 1992 by same. All Wright's rights reserved. These collections may be distributed freely as long as this notice is retained. Colors may, in time, fade. --:Dave === When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. --Mark Twain Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. --Charles Caleb Colton === The Management of Rare Breed Noninc. regrets that the remaining Gems for May 1992 have not been presented. The Management does not regret the reason, which was a change of address to much better quarters. The Management now lives alone and no longer has to worry about disturbing or being disturbed by a roommate or a roommate's friends, and can henceforth render future Gems in his underwear with impugnity. Or naked, if he wants. Therefore, in his new apartment and his underwear, The Management would like to present his Gems for the beginning of June. Uh, let me rephrase that... --:Dave === People don't remember you for all of the good things you do. They remember the time you blew a giant green snot bubble out your nose. --Donna Barr As Confucius' cook Ted Chow once said, "Wok softly and carry a chop stick." --Rich Maynard Failures are divided into two classes -- those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought. --John Charles Salak I... I don't worship the sun any more, majesty. Ra dries out the skin. --Boopshepsut, "Doonesbury" strip by Garry Trudeau If your ship hasn't come in, swim out to it. --Unknown === The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for June 7 to 13, 1992. "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed Noninc. and David Alan Wright. Compilation copyright 1992 by same. All Wright's rights reserved. These collections may be distributed freely as long as this notice is retained. Direct from factory. --:Dave === Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. --Thomas Carlyle An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have: the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. --Agatha Christie Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man. --Thomas Paine A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. --Ogden Nash Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. --Marie Curie If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion. --Goncourt Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. --Robert Frost === The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for June 14 to 20, 1992. "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed Noninc. and David Alan Wright. Compilation copyright 1992 by same. All Wright's rights reserved. These collections may be distributed freely as long as this notice is retained. Slippery when wet. --:Dave === spit-toon: the "Daffy and Sylvester" show --Wiley's Dictionary, "B.C." strip by Johnny Hart Okay, now floor it, go as fast as you can and then smash into something. --Crash dummy driving instructor, "Mother Goose and Grimm" strip by Mike Peters The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever. --Anatole France Times are so tough, my wife decided we should have a two-income family. Now I'm working two jobs. --Viking, "Hagar the Horrible" strip by Chris Browne Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving. --Frank Rooney The more we do, the more we can do. --William Hazlitt To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. --Pablo Picasso === The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for June 21 to 27, 1992. "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed Noninc. and David Alan Wright. Compilation copyright 1992 by same. All Wright's rights reserved. These collections may be distributed freely as long as this notice is retained. Limit one coupon per purchase. --:Dave === We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with. --Don Marquis I just can't shake the feeling that I don't really understand language as an abstract concept, but I am merely imitating syllables as a trained response. --Parrot, "Bizarro" cartoon by Dan Piraro Hey, Mr. Wilson... Let's go hunt some spotted asparagus beetles. Yummy! --Dennis the Mantis, "The Quigmans" cartoon by Buddy Hickerson Welcome to extremely high impact aerobics. Ready, people? One, two, three... LEAP!! --Aerobics instructor on skyscraper, "The Quigmans" cartoon by Buddy Hickerson He that will not reason is a bigot. He that cannot reason is a fool. He that dares not reason is a slave. --Branch Rickey The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. --Eden Phillpotts Lots of people know a good thing the minute the other fellow sees it first. --Job E. Hedges === The following are the "Rare Gems (sm)" selections for June 28 to July 4, 1992. "Rare Gems" is a service mark (sm) of Rare Breed Noninc. and David Alan Wright. Compilation copyright 1992 by same. All Wright's rights reserved. These collections may be distributed freely as long as this notice is retained. Collect a new volume each week. --:Dave === Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. --Mark Twain On the ant farm... "Dang... These things are tough to milk." --Terry Gallagher cartoon There are no happy endings. There are no real endings ever -- happy or otherwise. We all have our own stories which are just part of the one Story that binds both this world and Faerie. Sometimes we step into each other's stories -- perhaps for just a few minutes, perhaps for years -- and then we step out of them. But all the while, the story just goes on. --"Ghosts of Wind and Shadow" by Charles de Lint A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. --Ingrid Bergman The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. --L.P. Hartley Rather suffer an injustice than commit one. --Unknown You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. --Ralph Waldo Emerson