Dave Barry quote: "I find myself having these conversations where I go...“You know, the guy, in that place. The guy in the place with the thing, you know.” And it becomes this game of charades. And then finally, we realize that I mean the Pope."

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For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
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Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...
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Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to a...
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The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...
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The Sixties are now considered a historical period, just like the Roman Empire.
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Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
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Eternal boyhood is the dream of a depressing percentage of American males, and the locker room is th...
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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
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The question is, why are politicians so eager to be president? What is it about the job that makes i...
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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another perso...
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If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to...
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The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or...
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I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a mor...
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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless...
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The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitutio...
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I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.
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Quantity is what you count, quality is what you count on.
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It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know ...
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You had me at "We'll make it look like an accident."
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Wear short sleeves! Support your right to bare arms!
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I'd take a nerf bullet for you.
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What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my car...
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The first person who decided to say a word instead of throwing a rock can be considered the starter ...
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It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have...
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I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to r...
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Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
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I may not know Karate, but I know crazy and I'm not afraid to use it.
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In beer there is freedom, in wine there is health, in cognac there is power and in water there is ba...
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Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see wi...
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My band career ended late in my senior year when John Cooper and I threw my amplifier out the dormit...
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Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would b...
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What Women Want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be...
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popula...
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Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated ...
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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
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There are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who ...
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The obvious and fair solution to the housework problem is to let men do the housework for, say, the ...
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It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in...
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In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went...
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Although Golf was originally restricted to wealthy Protestants, today its open to anybody who owns h...
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I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any ...
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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
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A thunderstorm is God's way of saying you spend too much time in front of the computer
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It is a good idea to "shop around" before you settle on a doctor. Ask about the condition of his Mer...
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Americans who travel abroad for the first time are often shocked to discover that, despite all the p...
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The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they...
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My problem with chess was that all my pieces wanted to end the game as soon as possible.
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The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withst...
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should aris...
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The ultimate camping trip was the Lewis and Clark expedition.
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas...
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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless y...
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Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 ft/sec, is a cow that h...
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If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving infant's life, she will choose to sa...
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And computers are getting smarter all the time: scientists tell us that soon they will be able to ta...
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The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious pe...
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Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason.
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New York Taxi Rules:1. Driver speaks no English.2. Driver just got here two days ago from someplace ...
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Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organiza...
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Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won...
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Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night
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Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business.
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
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I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Futu...
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One day soon the Gillette company will announce the development of a razor that, thanks to a compute...
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People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with th...
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Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see wit...
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but ...
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Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, usi...
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We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this i...
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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should aris...
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
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American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, includi...
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Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television witho...
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
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Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who re...
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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
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Geographically, Ireland is a medium-sized rural island that is slowly but steadily being consumed by...
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Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his ...
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The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
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Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
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I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated, so they can get into a goo...
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Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while ...
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I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news p...
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There's nothing wrong with enjoying looking at the surface of the ocean itself, except that when you...
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Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
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Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be att...
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I have been a gigantic Rolling Stones fan since approximately the Spanish-American War.
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Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.
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If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.
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We journalists... are also extremely impressed with scientists, and we will, frankly, print just abo...
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
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I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven...
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Your hand and your mouth agreed many years ago that, as far as chocolate is concerned, there is no n...
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If you asked me to name the three scariest threats facing the human race, I would give the same answ...
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A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to est...
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As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.
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The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background...
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If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - yo...
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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is read...
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Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, D...
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Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the...
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What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such ...
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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since th...
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While you are destroying your mind watching the worthless, brain-rotting drivel on TV, we on the Int...
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And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead by using their MacInto...
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If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to...
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All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for b...
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Let's talk about how to fill out your 1984 tax return. Here's an often overlooked accounting techniq...
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The IRS spends God knows how much of your tax money on these toll-free information hot lines staffed...
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Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in Janu...
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The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and att...
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Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always...
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What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless y...
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I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if pe...
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I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at...
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Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybo...
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Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions...
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Software is usually accompanied by documentation in the form of big fat scary manuals that nobody ev...
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Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet per second, is a c...
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For many years the National Pretend Speed Limit was fifty-five miles per hour (metric equivalent: 37...
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All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of fallin...
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Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the b...
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Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. (This is also true of relig...
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The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have...
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The nuclear generator of brain sludge is television.
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I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't ca...
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I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software inco...
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Childbirth, as a strictly physical phenomenon, is comparable to driving a United Parcel truck throug...
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If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and f...
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This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as bei...
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More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers...
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USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean 'idiot.'
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UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 ton...
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The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Den...
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'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.
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''Varlet and the Squeaking Codpieces'' would be an excellent name for a rock band.
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Grammatically, should of is a predatory admonition; as such, it is always used as part of a herpetol...
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It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This...
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I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person...
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The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withsta...
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Both of your socks should always be the same color, Or they should at least both be fairly dark
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What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a...
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When Thomas Paine showed Benjamin Franklin the manuscript of The Age of Reason, Franklin advised him...
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We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty...
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All good things must come to an end, but all bad things can continue forever.
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We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days s...
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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried
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And Ted Koppel comes walking down the aisle. We'd met a few times, so we said hello.
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Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT."
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There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
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1996 also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left b...
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Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on you...
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In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went...
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Sir,” James asked, “what are we going to do?”
“We’re going to look for water,” said...
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Seriously? You won’t help me?”
“Help yourself get killed? No, I won’t.
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If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, ...
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If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, ...
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Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably...
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If you were to open up a baby's head - and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should - you wo...
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It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This...
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Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religi...
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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory
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Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.
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I gotta tell you, ... It's pretty crazy when you think about taking whatever's on the other end of t...
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It was by far just a one-girl show. She led every offensive and defensive category for Bishop Kearne...
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one of South Florida's most vital natural resources, a relentlessly sane voice in a howling hurrican...
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drink beer. But that's kind of my goal pretty much wherever I go.
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I'm very pleased that we made the top four. But I feel that we could have had a stronger showing.
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I've been asked to make an announcement, ... There is a non-luxury car in the parking lot. We've bee...
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The term SAT is a set of initials, or autonym, standing for Scholastic Attitude Treaty Organization.
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We've actually gotten better musically over the years, ... But we've come to realize that we will ne...
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Rembrandt's first name was Beauregard, which is why he never used it.
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Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art...
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Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones...
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Ridley is a tea drinker.
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It's a concept I've often thought of.
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You get people from all walks of life here -- who work in domestic service.
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I believe that's one of the finest action regurgitation scenes in the history of literature, ... I'd...
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We became pretty sensitive about it. We visited Great Ormond Street Hospital when we were in England...
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What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge ham...
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I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems.
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Buying the right computer and getting it to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuc...
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Because of the level of my chess game, I was able - even against a weak opponent, such as my younger...
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If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will ...
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The best baby-sitters, of course, are the baby’s grandparents. You feel completely comfortable ent...
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Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant d...
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I have always dressed according to certain Basic Guy Fashion Rules,including:* Both of your socks sh...
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Puns are little 'plays on words' that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look...
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There comes a time in a man's life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his ...
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The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winte...
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It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
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I find myself having these conversations where I go...“You know, the guy, in that place. The guy in the place with the thing, you know.” And it becomes this game of charades. And then finally, we realize that I mean the Pope.

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I find myself having these conversations where I go...“You know, the guy, in that place. The guy in the place with the thing, you know.” And it becomes this game of charades. And then finally, we realize that I mean the Pope.

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