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We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admi...
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For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball.
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What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another pe...
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Eating rice cakes is like chewing on a foam coffee cup, only less filling.
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Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is ...
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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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I find myself having these conversations where I go...“You know, the guy, in that place. The guy i...
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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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One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or "fat recycling" wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips; people will then be literally kissing ass.

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One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or "fat recycling" wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips; people will then be literally kissing ass.

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