Matt Brocchini searched through two years' worth of his saved email to find all the lines that began with the word \"because\"; then he arranged those lines in alphabetical order. (Or at least his computer's idea of alphabetical order.) The resulting found art should provide an explanation for any occasion.<\/p>\r\n
I have taken the liberty of making one tiny elision; otherwise these lines are all, as Matt noted, \"real explanations typed by real people.\"<\/p>\r\n
\r\nbecause
\r\nbecause \"decision makers at local television stations have rarely taken
\r\nbecause \"we need to have a better way to cover traffic,\" says news
\r\nbecause 'hemp' is street slang for marijuana.
\r\nbecause CBS desperately needed Gaylord Entertainment's sibling station
\r\nbecause I accidentally erased it. Sorry about that. Please re-submit
\r\nbecause I need your product. I therefore see thru the common rhetoric. But
\r\nbecause I'll only be doing word-processing and emailing etc. I might also
\r\nbecause computers are too expensive for many
\r\nbecause his forecast differed from those being offered by other
\r\nbecause it is the one that's watched the most. We've got a good
\r\nbecause it is too difficult for them to follow more complicated dramas.
\r\nbecause it sounds like it can be a most successful venture. And I can't
\r\nbecause most of the Windows-specific functions are implemented as
\r\nbecause my...er, forgot what the reason was. Really too hot here for
\r\nbecause nCUBE has released a new range of machines.
\r\nbecause of a bug in the virus. The virus also attempts to infect a
\r\nbecause of his eerie physical resemblance to Dilbert.
\r\nbecause of inappropriate subject matter.
\r\nbecause of the limitations in the user interface they could implement (please
\r\nbecause of the political views expressed, but because he said some things
\r\nbecause of the tightrope walk between sweet and tart in the dish. I
\r\nbecause of their automated complete course development cycle, from needs
\r\nbecause on-line is much easier,\" Dietsch said.
\r\nbecause she claims she was abused. She then cuts her foot on the glass
\r\nbecause some wine makers insist you can't cold stabilize without removing
\r\nbecause that increases the amount of flaming. But at this
\r\nbecause the Chyron has gone down for the morning news.
\r\nbecause the anchors are charismatic, because their weathercaster is funny,
\r\nbecause the publisher had badly overpaid. But Evans, who is now a literary
\r\nbecause the station doesn't have enough people. Well, station owners
\r\nbecause there's a tremendous loneliness in the picture.... I think
\r\nbecause there's no context for the story when it's archived. Also, there's no
\r\nbecause they believe there are too many direct connections between
\r\nbecause they don't break down fast enough. Says Paul Ryan, \"In order
\r\nbecause they don't have jobs to wake up for in the morning. Pike has
\r\nbecause they feared the FBI would give them \"no brain\" drugs.
\r\nbecause they had run out of cigarettes. [Hartford Courant, 12-8-
\r\nbecause they have sports every fifteen minutes, because there's no sports.
\r\nbecause they have very little financial control over the organization. It
\r\nbecause they knew she had something important to say. Once on the line =20
\r\nbecause they lead to just such inbred \"thumbsucking\" stories that neglect to
\r\nbecause they objected to what they characterized as the talk-show
\r\nbecause they obviously don't have any themselves.
\r\nbecause they sit on the events, doesn't mean the rest of us should sit
\r\nbecause they were charging too much money for it. It was a great idea
\r\nbecause they were in direct consultation with BC Company in Japan on the
\r\nbecause they were, \"..concerned that you are not addressing the
\r\nbecause theyve been less prone to cosmetics in the past, and it is
\r\nbecause together we will bring together the tools required to build and
\r\nbecause we can't absolutely define what we will need for support. Hope this
\r\nbecause we know so much about audiences, audience flow, the results of
\r\nbecause we're all great fans of The Hitchhiker's Guide,\" Dr. Keith
\r\nbecause we've launched the beta test of our live Java-based chat in Club
\r\nbecause, given the unpredictable time table involved, one cannot necessarily<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n