User:Xyzzyva

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xyzzyva
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en This user is a native speaker of English.
fr-2 Cet utilisateur peut contribuer avec un niveau intermédiaire en français.
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This user has an intermediate understanding of the International Phonetic Alphabet.
la-1 Hic usor simplici latinitate contribuere potest.
ar-1 هذا المستخدم يعرف مبادئ العربية.
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This user uses Commonwealth spelling.
Je suis Marxiste,
tendance Groucho
Image:face icon bland.svg This user does not have an opinion about anything.
dlph Eeek ack sque'ek ook kkkk'k squeek.
Image:Stout.gif This user drinks
GUINNESS.
This user has been on Wikipedia for
4 years, 5 months and 3 days.
1,500+
KC This user is a Kansas City Royals fan.
10 This user has been to 10 Major League Baseball stadiums.
This user is a supporter of the
St Kilda Saints
its & it’s This user understands the difference between its and it’s. So should you.
This user lives in Missouri.
WJC This user attends or has attended William Jewell College.
UA This user attends or attended the University of Adelaide.
UdeG This user is a current or former Universidad de Guadalajara student.
UMKC  This user was a student or taught at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.


This user is addicted to ellipses and has been known to use them indiscriminately....
ubx-n This user communicates exclusively via userboxes.

[edit] Various Quotes

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
- Winston Churchill


"But Iraqi gun enthusiasts have defended firearms, saying 'Laser-guided ground-to-air shoulder-mounted rocket launchers don't kill people, the American-Zionist conspiracy kills people.'"
- The Chaser's War on Everything


"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer."
- Commentaries on the Laws of England


"Inter arma enim silent leges."
- Cicero


"I am not fit for this office and never should have been here."
- President Warren G. Harding


"Well, when the President does it, that means that it is not illegal."
- President Richard Nixon


"I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix."
"Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children."
"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."
"We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
- Vice President Dan Quayle


"Money is property; it is not speech."
- Justice John Paul Stevens, in Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC


"A gratuitous explosion of vainglory and guts, the movie is all firecrackers and giblets and broken glass. The overall effect is like wading through hospital waste."
- a review of the movie Total Recall by Rita Kempley in The Washington Post


"Overt pacifism was undeniably one of the early twentieth century's least successful political movements."
- Barbara Tuchman, The Guns of August


"Very early on, we metaphorized our history, and since then we have often historicized our metaphors. When we literalize metaphors, we get nonsense."
- Marcus Borg, The Meaning of Jesus: Two Visions


"Nemo enim fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit."
- Cicero


"We shall grapple with the ineffable, and see if we may not eff it after all."
- Douglas Adams


So Michael J. Fox and Muhammad Ali are playing Jenga...