Here's the stuff we found when you searched for "something was to be gained"

• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• I was throwing around useless proverbs when all she needed was to be held and told that she was beautiful
• if I can't be with you, then I'll write about you, or I'll write about something else
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• If God was willing to let it be
• If all you did was node, your writeups wouldn't be very interesting, would they?
• How can something be more beautiful than it is?
• To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
• I was not made for love songs, and love songs will never be made for me.
• I'm Rudy Giuliani! I was mayor of New York on 9/11! I Should Be The President!
• Be something... be anything other than this
• Where's the kaboom?
• If I was a woman I'd be a feminist too
• There was never supposed to be an Episode 7, 8, or 9
• Boy, I was sure lucky to be born into the one true faith!
• One more robot learns to be something more than a machine.
• His love was enormous; it cleared rooms that desperately wanted to be full.
• Was it something I said?
• If I were watched alone, I'd be considered insane
• If I was any good at this, I would be getting paid
• I was Dan for fifteen minutes and I never want to be Dan again
• He wasn't programmed to be a tenor, he was programmed to be a physician!
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• How can something so incredibly beautiful be so incredibly wrong?
• It is something very shameful. Please contact me again if I can be of further service.
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• He made me promise I would do this when I was next sad. So I promised myself I would not be sad again.
• I was supposed to be somebody by the age of 23
• Something to Be Desired
• If someone wants to do something and it isn't hurting you... DON'T BE A FUCKING DICK
• If this was an Olympic Sport, I'd be world champion
• RIT was supposed to be built in New Mexico
• This wasn't how it was supposed to be
• If love was a circus, you'd be a clown
• Her self image was not the force field she imagined it to be
• You'll be something special one day. And you -- you have to take care of your sister.
• To do is to be
• If there were more people like you, there would be less people
• The Ten Commandments revised
• If you behave there will be cake for the miscreants we call your brothers
• Claiming to be a lesbian
• Jack Be Nimble
• We shall be nothing a hundred years hence
• Religion doesn't exist just so that people can be told what to think
• Working in a library is never as much fun as you think it might be.
• Moments such as these are superfluous to my life; nevertheless, they deserve to be remembered.
• How to be a jerk and piss off your SO
• I don't want to be alone
• Now this is the way the Internet is supposed to be!
• If you tolerate this your children will be next
• All Flesh Must Be Eaten
• It's OK for dance music to be repetitive
• Damn it Feels Bad to be an Angsta
• Blessed be
• Glory be to the Father
• I Want to Be Inside You
• In twenty years your favorite song will be playing in an elevator
• I refuse to be "deciphered"
• I'll be
• Authors who refuse to be photographed
• Waiting To Be Opened
• How to be Happy, Dammit
• Which is not to be found in our obituaries
• How the Internet Came to Be
• The Thing that Should Not Let it Be
• i be an retarded (user)
• How to get Apache to be a bit more secretive
• Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
• every partial order can be extended to a total order
• asking to be bathed in light
• Linux would be dead without Windows
• You cannot be in love with every beautiful thing you see
• you make my life a little harder than it has to be
• I thought that I wanted this. I didn't realize it would be so hollow
• gain antenna
• Stop reading this and go do something constructive
• In order that I may know something more before I depart from life
• Guessing the worth of something
• The more you promote something, the less of it you have
• Life, or something like it
• Our souls are growing coarse. We must do something.
• was
• A poem I wrote when I was 5
• It was you, Atthis
• I was searching glass
• The male libido - or - How I was castrated by the 90's
• Finding the origin of a Hotmail message
• How I was thrown from a car at 45 mph
• A poem for two pages of panel art for a comic that was never written
• I was a witch in a past life
• As I looked back, he was reveling in his own feces
• If a black hole were created on Earth
• There was a land where lived no violets
• Willie was a chemist
• I don't remember what her name was so let's call her Doris
• If I was beautiful, I'd know it
• An ocean away and here he was, seeping into her
• The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel
• War is only fun on screen
• She was inside the music, with her eyes closed
• Aunt Peg
• Who shouted with glee when the colour blue was born?
• Everything Hitler did was legal
• I was less than one hundred footsteps away from you I suppose
• She was most amazed by the obvious, like January and the fact that I could not possibly keep her.
• and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground
• Everything Stalin did was legal
• You must be 18 or older to enter
• The Hedgehog Can Never Be Buggered At All
• Must be a lesbian
• This poem can be put off no longer
• Want to be a lawyer?
• This would be easier if we did it backwards
• node that will be my legacy
• asking only to be stared into, offering no reward
• ordering a pizza can be a painful experience
• The secret mission of E2 is to train us to be reference librarians
• The Big Bang as the origin of matter
• Everyone is just trying to be farther meta
• Men And Women Will Never Be The Same
• Pray ferverently to what gods there be
• I want to be a whale when I grow up. Or a squid.
• Laundry should be free
• Time travel, as I think of it, will never be invented
• Valentine's Day shouldn't be a chore
• If she were an insect, she'd be a moth in search of a flame
• Let him who is without sin among you be the first to cast a stone
• Without chemicals, life itself would be impossible
• After this, everything got louder and no one could be heard
• It's Tough to Be a Bug
• There has to be a better way to make human beings
• I'M GUNNA BE WICKED RETAHDED: Come for the scenery, stay for the BAP (another E2 nodah pahty)
• If there were a slight, let it be fulsome
• Necronomicon: Of Ye Times And Ye Seasons To Be Observed
• It must be New Years Eve again
• Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
• Be there or be square
• Questions you will be asked when you study Chinese
• Those Who Must Be Kept
• Don't worry, Be Happy!
• You've Got to be Brain Damaged
• How to be a badass
• Laugh now, because tomorrow I will be ten stories tall and I could just step on you if I want
• One day, E2 will attain sentience. And I'll be there to see it.
• If brackets be the food of E2, link on
• They will not be named!
• potion of gain level
• Something not to say in Gujarati
• Never trust something that bleeds for a week and doesn't die
• How to find something which has been lost
• If you can say something nice, do
• Something for Now
• I woke up searching for something that I didn't find
• Able was I, ere I saw Elba
• Theories as to what was inside the briefcase in Pulp Fiction
• The Story of the Envious Man and of Him Who Was Envied
• I was never any good at maths at school
• if music were a woman
• This Was Your Life
• Since Adam was a boy
• Where there was fire I brought the gasoline
• I came, I saw and was undone
• The sky was green today
• She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings.
• 'T Was Such a Little, Little Boat
• I fried myself in The Finnish E2 Get-Together, and all I got was a hippie song stuck in my head
• Food was purer in the good old days
• What seemed like tenderness was really weakness
• My purity was little stickers I willingly gave away in exchange for hearts
• Wheresoever he went, there was Eden
• The Abridged Edition: She was to one side, he was to the other, an untested bridge between them
• If I was president
• Was nützt die Liebe in Gedanken
• It was 1992. He smiled.
• He was the kind of man who shacked up for shelter
• Oh, when I was in love with you
• apart from the shade which it offered, there was also the possibility of "French kissing"
• Be all that you can be
• well, I'll be jiggered
• Your e-mail client must be this secure before you may ride the internet
• Trying to be weird is not enough
• You can suck dick and still be a virgin, Mary
• My nose is producing fluorescent'y substances, should I be concerned?
• Carl Everett
• Your last act as a free man should of course be to burn the scrap of paper
• Wouldn't It Be Nice

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