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--Napoleon Bonaparte

Friday, February 11, 2005

Friday, Of Course

Because I spent a few days in Arizona this week, I wanted to share this quote:

" Fort Yuma is probably the hottest place on earth.  The thermometer stays at one hundred and twenty in the shade there all the time - except when it varies and goes higher.  It is a U.S. military post, and its occupants get so used to the terrific heat that they suffer without it.  There is a tradition... that a very, very wicked soldier died there, once, and of course, went straight to the hottest corner of perdition, - and the next day he telegraphed back for his blankets."

-- Mark Twain
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