Random Quote of the Week

The distinguishing trait of people accustomed to good society is a calm, imperturbable quiet which pervades all their actions and habits, from the greatest to the least. They eat in quiet, move in quiet, live in quiet, and lose their wife, or even their money, in quiet; while low persons cannot take up either a spoon or an affront without making such an amazing noise about it.--LYTTON.

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Note to Self

Copper is a very good conductor of electricity! I recently read on Reuters that a German man was electrocuted and burned to a crisp attempting to steal copper from some sort of electrical substation... I've said it before, good riddance! Go mine the stuff if you want copper, or better yet, buy mining shares...