A couple of items found somewhere-or-other, years ago.
PREDICTION CORNER. ‘Before man reaches the moon, your mail will be delivered within hours from New York to California, from England to India, by guided missile. We stand on the threshold of rocket mail.’ (Arthur Summerfield, US Postmaster General, 23 June 1959) [TH] (I guess this one came from Ansible.)
The Tom Sawyer Uncertainty Principle: It’s either not every day or not everywhere that you get to whitewash a fence, but you can never know which.