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A less aggressive version is \u201cShow me, I\u2019m from Missouri,\u201d which requires the proper Southern Mizoorah drawl for maximum impact. Wherever you\u2019re from, the message is one of eternal vigilance in the face of fancy claims. 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Buyers had to establish that they were reigning monarchs. The global market crashes combined with diverse regime changes came at a bad time for sales. The huge prices fetched now by Bugatti Royales (I believe all seven have survived - I've personally seen five of them) indicate what a real bargain they were back then."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_2_1","volume-title":"S.","author":"Mendacity Sequence","year":"1981","unstructured":"Mendacity Sequence (n.) \"An ISO standard sorting sequence allowing the F's in a truth table to be ordered by degree of falsehood.\" Benchmark (v. trans.) \"To subject (a system) to a series of tests in order to obtain prearranged results not available on competitive systems.\" (Kelly-Bootle, S. 1981. The Devil's DP Dictionary. New York: McGraw-Hill)."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_3_1","unstructured":"The clich\u00e9 \"If you're not part of the solution you're part of the problem\" is one of those glib dichotomies that has oft led to a job termination. Both it and its inversion defy a decent parse. \"No Parseran \" as my uncle in the Spanish Civil War proclaimed before he was forced to surrender."},{"key":"e_1_2_1_4_1","unstructured":"My own internal pace-setting pacemaker and external monitor are programmed in C++ which Bjarne Stroustrup assures me is a good thing better than Java for what's known as Borrowed Realtime with Nonrandom Garbage Collection. After a recent check my esteemed cardiologist Dr. Evans (flattery was never more warranted or advisable) told me that my pacemaker battery was good for another four years. I said \"I'll do the best I can.\""},{"key":"e_1_2_1_5_1","unstructured":"Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat: \"I often wonder what the vintners buy \/ One half so precious as the goods they sell.\" (tr. E. 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