No time for love, Dr. Jones!

"I put my big question about life to my biological son Mark. Mark is a pediatrician, and author of a memoir, The Eden Express. It is about his crackup, straightjacket and padded cell stuff, from which he recovered sufficiently to graduate from Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Vonnegut said this to his doddering old dad: “Father, we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.” So I pass that on to you. Write it down, and put it in your computer, so you can forget it."

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• Сказал a, говори href. - To the best of my recollection, coined by the incomparable gosha
  
• Прекрасное время: крысы уже убежали, а корабль еще не утонул. - A wonderful time when the rats have already left but the ship has not yet sunk. - attributed to Vladimir Turovsky, a Russian humor writer living in Canada, widely quoted in various aphorism collections.
  
• Distracting older women since 1999. - Borrowed from a nonsensically hip Abercrombie & Fitch throwaway slogan imprinted on the inside clothing labels. They have been doing it since 1892.
  
• The daily floggings will continue until morale improves. - This phrase was tossed around the office during a particularly nasty rollout last year when shore leaves (vacations) were being canceled, accusations in incompetence traded and contentious daily status meetings held. Origin unknown, although often linked to various maritime anecdotes.
  
• Told you not to meddle with the bass and the treble. - A line from a Robbie Williams song.
  

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