[FreeLibertarian]

Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excssive wear. Honorifics and formal politeness provide lubrication where people rub together. Often the very young, the untravelled, the naive, the unsophisticated deplore these formalities as "empty," "meaningless," or "dishonest," and scorn to use them. No matter how "pure" their motives, they thereby throw sand into the machinery that does not work too well at best.

Lazarus Long in Time Enough For Love....The Notebooks of Lazarus Long

[Swordmaker]

Ah, Woodie, who would have thought you could become so famous...

Woodrow Wilson Smith, born November 12, 1912, Died ????

AKA Woodrow Wilson Smith, Ernest Gibbons, Captain Aaron Sheffield, "Happy" Daze, His Serenity Seraphin the Younger, Supreme High Priest of the One God in All His Aspects and Arbiter Below and Above, Proscribed Prisoner No. 83M2742, Mr. Justice Lenox, Corporal "Ted" Bronson, Dr. Lafe Hubert, Lazarus Long, et al?