That is true,” replied Almira, “nothing can be performed without labor, and where there is labor there will be discontent, and where there is no labor there will be heart-burning and jealousy about insignificant trifles, such as gangrenes the real pleasures of contemplation within these walls; walls, which would otherwise hold out an asylum, much to be prized by those who have been unfortunate, who have lost all their friends, or who are weary of the world."

Patrick Michael Sullivan of Nanaimo kept spamming YouPube links on usenet while owing $226,223.46 to other people

When Leonard finally hauls up a cod of seventy-five centimeters, probably seven years old, a typical catch ten years ago, they all joke, Oh my God, get the gaff!

I sold the magazine rights to the story, but not the e-rights.