Friday, October 28, 2011

Monday, March 07, 2011

Humility is a first cousin to humidity.
--from the Portuguese

Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Someone else will always said it best, eventually.
--not me

Monday, May 24, 2010

Turn often from your path in life to sample the local cheeseburgers.

Friday, March 12, 2010

Curling iron in the tub, Ned won't make it to the pub. -- [from the Old English]

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Cake should not be shared with anyone you are not required, morally or karmic-wise, to share cake with.
The stranger the hat, the better the attitude.
(from the crazy Dutch, "De vreemdeling de hoed, hoe beter de houding.")

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Ghosts are just dead people who missed the bus.
[from the Swedish, "Spöken är bara döda människor som missade bussen."]

Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Feed the dogs before the cats and cat pee shows up in your hats.
[from the German, "Füttern Sie die Hunde vor den Katzen und Katzen pinkeln zeigt sich in Ihrem Hüte."]

Tuesday, December 01, 2009

Do, or do not--just don't wake Jeff.
[from the Maltese: "Do, jew ma - biss ma tranja Jeff."]

Monday, November 30, 2009

Friday, November 27, 2009

Just and fair, the noble vole--it bites at anything you stick in its hole. 
[from the French]

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Jello in your socks at morn will coax away the hardest corn.
[from "Shamans of Sheboygin: A Cheese-State Compendium of Folk Remedies",  Ethel's House Press, 1972]

Monday, November 23, 2009

Time is a river of cheese fondue and we are the croutons.
[from the sayings of the 5th-century Roman poet, Ovoid]

Friday, November 20, 2009

Start your day with an enormous poop, and you can jump through any hoop!

[Catchphrase for 40s radio pitchman, Ranger Regular, maker of Ranger Regular's Rocket Fiber Supplements]

Thursday, November 05, 2009

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Taco, burrito, cheese enchilada...If he's eaten all three, he's probably your father.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Give a man a twinkie and he'll snack for a few minutes, teach a man how to build a well-concealed underground shelter stocked with thousands of twinkies and he'll survive the coming zombie attacks. -- [overheard on a bus in Tulsa]

Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

There are no stupid questions--only stupid birds.

Friday, June 12, 2009

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

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

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

Wednesday, December 31, 2008