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Friday, June 12, 2009

The nose is a lot plainer on the end of somebody else's face.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Taste the donut, eat the dozen.

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

Toast with butter--start to stutter; toast with jam--sleep with Pam.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Nothing ventured--(fucking dentures...).

Saturday, August 02, 2008

Once fooled, no big deal; thrice fooled, start to squeal.

[from The Wisdom of Pigs, by Farmer Dave]

Thursday, July 31, 2008

The sailor will return home faster is the sea is angry, but fastest if it is really really tiny, like the size of that lake over in Mossberg Park, behind the swingset.

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Sing like a chimpmunk in public long enough and you're bound to get punched by one.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006

It is not always certain whether we are the chimps or the bananas.

Monday, December 18, 2006

The rest of your life will feel like a syndication of that one cancelled TV show about the dentist and the talking bear.

Friday, December 15, 2006

Smile, and the Mona Lisa will smile back, but in a kind of creepy way.

Wednesday, December 13, 2006

For every first oboe player there is a second oboe player with blood in his eyes.
[from the Italian]

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Never correct the pronunciation of someone you have a crush on.

Monday, December 11, 2006

Thumbs up for thimbles!

Friday, December 08, 2006

The ice age had ice, the bronze age had bronze, but those of us of a certain age had cheetos and the Fonz.

Thursday, December 07, 2006

The quickest way out of a hangover is through the restroom.

Friday, December 01, 2006

Why choose to fly too close to the sun when you can sink too low into a morass of narcotics and porn?
[from the Latin]

Thursday, November 30, 2006

The older the horse the shorter the horserace.

Wednesday, November 29, 2006

The asshole is the wind tunnel to the small intestine.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Pink guns kill just as well as black ones.
[from The Cosmo Guide to Hand to Hand Combat, July 1978 issue of Cosmopolitan]

Monday, November 27, 2006

Wheat chex, rice chex, corn chex, hand chex.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Never eat at a restaurant named after an invented person whose only claim to culinary prowess is his cleverly alliterative name.
[from Ptomaine Alert at Pteradactyl Terri's Teriaki Tent, issued by the Terre Haute Department of Health, May 10, 2002]

Monday, November 20, 2006

Every story that can be told, has been told, on television, by wacky people living in apartments and constantly barging in on each other in their underwear.

Friday, November 17, 2006

If you hear the train you may be on the tracks.

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

The stranger the hat, the better the attitude.

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Hypothermia is always a good excuse for tardiness.

Monday, November 13, 2006

It's difficult to run from an angry bartender when your mouth is stuffed with olives.

Friday, November 10, 2006

Choose the food-court restaurant that has the second most food-court workers eating at it, because the one with the first most is just giving employee discounts.
[from No, I Found This Mall First, by Christy Teeter, William Reinquist High School journalism class project, 2004]

Thursday, November 09, 2006

Choose the food-court restaurant that has the most food-court workers eating at it.
[from I Found This Mall First, by Tiffany Harris, William Reinquist High School journalism class project, 2004]

Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Those who repeat history are doomed to have to write another report on the Taft-Hartley Act.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Those who rewrite history should be forced to leave it.