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They say if you give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day.  But if you teach a man to fish…. then he’s got to get a fishing license, but he doesn’t have any money.  So he’s got to get a job and pay taxes, and now you’re gonna audit the poor cocksucker because he’s not good with math.     So they’ll pull the IRS van up to your house and take all your shit. And you were just worried about eating a fucking fish, but you couldn’t ever cook the fish because you needed a permit for an open flame.  Then the Health Dept. is going to start asking you a lot of questions about where you are going to dump the scales and guts. And ladies and gentlemen, if you get sick of it all at the end of the day, it’s not even legal to kill yourself. - Doug Stanhope

…Dan McPharlin…Future Past / Past Future…

Based on a quote by Lieutenant Ken Giles about commanding a M3 Grant in North Africa from Douglas’ ‘Alamein to Zem Zem’

released by Pantheon Books on January 1, 2005.