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- Some of life's little mysteries
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- Why do the needles used in lethal injections have to be sterile?
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- Why don't sheep shrink in the rain?
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- Why do you drive on parkways and park on driveways?
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- Why do noses run and feet smell?
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- Why is it that night falls, and dawn cracks, but day breaks?
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- Why is Greenland ice and Iceland green?
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- How do you know when you've run out of invisible ink?
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- I have the world's largest Seashell collection...I have them scattered on
- beaches all over the world.
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- I have a box of instant water at home...problem is I dont know what to add..
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- When shooting a mime should you use a silencer?
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- I bought some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.
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- Yesterday, I was, oh no, that wasn't me.
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- Did you hear about the guy who got fired for getting his hand stuck in
- the dishwasher? They fired the dishwasher too......
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- Procrastinate now!
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- Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
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- I used to be indecisive, now I'm not sure.
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- SAVE THE WALES.....HARPOON A FAT CHICK !!
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- ...When she sunbathes, Greenpeace tries to put her back in the water!
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- Love your neighbor but don't get caught. Dr. J.
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- Why do stores that stay open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year have locks
- on the front doors??
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- "Respect you in the morning? Gee, I wasn't planning on staying that long."
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- Reincarnation: life sucks, then you die. Then life sucks again.
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- What's another word for Thesaurus?
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- What does the Easter Bunny get for making baskets?
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- From the Sunday Plain Dealer Magazine, news of the Weird section;
- The Avon, Colorado town council resorted to a contest in September
- to name the new bridge over the Eagle River, linking Interstate 70
- with U.S. 6. Sifting through 84 suggestions (such as "Eagle Crossing"),
- the council voted, 4-2, to give it the official name "Bob."
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- "If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, why do they
- taste more like prunes than rhubarb does?" -Groucho Marx
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- Confucius say "Man who walk middle of road get run over by bus."
- "People who make Confucius joke speak bad English."
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- From the 26-May-88 Wall Street Journal...
- In an Orkin Exterminating Co. survey of what pests Pitsburghers fear
- most, 1.3% named their spouses and kids.
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- When I was at Swarthmore, a physics prof I worked for had the lab group
- rolling on the floor and laughing by telling MIT stories. My favorite
- was the one about the Green building, where over winter break two dozen
- students entered the building and spent a couple of weeks interchanging
- the 12th and 13th floors. They rewired the phones and the elevator,
- repainted numbers on doors, moved furnature around. I'm told the hoax
- went undetected until someone tried to walk down the stairs from the
- 12th floor.
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- Confucius say: I didn't say that!
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- Woman who put husband in doghouse soon find him in cat-house.
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- The one my firend always used was (and it worked)
- You're in one car and the one your giving the line to is in another.
- you say "Excuse me,I'm lost, could you give me some directions?"
- they say "sure, where to?"
- you say "your house?"
- it actually worked.
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- Why were there 600 mexicans at the Alamo? They only had two cars.
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- Two guys in a Yugo were arrested last night in Oakland following a push-by
- shooting incident.
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- The new Yugo has an air bag. When you sense an impending accident.....
- ... start pumping real fast!
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- JOIN THE MARINES!
- Travel to exotic, distant lands. Meet exciting unusual people and kill them.
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- "To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question....
- ....or is it?"
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- I'm growing older but not up... - Jimmy Buffett
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- Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their
- guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. -- Mark Twain
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- "Do not adjust you mind, it is reality that is malfunctioning."
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- "When they make expanded polystyrene what do they ship it in?"
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- Always feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the
- morning, that's the best they're going to feel all day.
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- The letter from the Air Force colonel in charge of safety said that
- rocket boosters weighing more than 300,000 pounds "have an explosive
- force upon surface impact that is sufficient to exceed the accepted
- overpressure threshhold of physiological damage for exposed personnel."
- In other words, if a 300,000-pound booster rocket falls on someone, he
- or she is not likely to survive.
- A reader reports that the Army calls them "vertically deployed
- anti-personnel devices." You probably call them bombs.
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- At McClellan Air Force base in Sacramento, California, civilian
- mechanics were placed on "non-duty, non-pay status." That is, they were
- fired.
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- Scott L. Pickard, spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of
- Public Works, calls them "ground-mounted confirmatory route markers."
- You probably call them road signs, but then you don't work in a
- government agency.
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- How do you get out of a log cabin with no doors or windows? Only a
- mirror and a table are inside with you.
- Answer:
- You look in the mirror and see what you saw. Take the saw and cut the
- table in half. Take the two halves and make a whole. Climb out the hole.
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- Proof that Horses have an infinite number of legs:
- (1) Horses have an even number of legs.
- (2) They have two legs in back and fore legs in front.
- (3) This makes a total of six legs, which certainly is an odd number of
- legs for a horse.
- (4) But the only number that is both odd and even is infinity.
- (5) Therefore, horses must have an infinite number of legs.
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- For a while I didn't have a car...I had a helicopter...no place to
- park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running...
- [slow glance upward]
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- If I'd know that I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better
- care of myself.
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- Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.
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- A man should live forever, or die trying.
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- Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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- A New York city ordinance prohibits the shooting of rabbits from the
- rear of a Third Avenue street car--if the car is in motion.
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- All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power
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- All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life
- is to enjoy it.
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- All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for
- fun. Money's just the way we keep score.
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- Pittsburgh Driver's Test:-
- (8) Pedestrians are
- (a) irrelevant.
- (b) communists.
- (c) a nuisance.
- (d) difficult to clean off the front grille.
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- The correct answer is (a). Pedestrians are not in cars, so they are
- totally irrelevant to driving; you should ignore them completely.
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- A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
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- Atlanta makes it against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole
- or street lamp.
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- Remember: Oprah spelled backwards is Harpo!
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- But officer, I was only trying to gain enough speed so I could coast
- to the nearest gas station.
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- It's morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
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- Celibacy is not hereditary.
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- Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.
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- Churchill's Commentary on Man:
- Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the
- time he will pick himself up and continue on.
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- Cigarette, n.:
- A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of tobacco in
- between.
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- Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery.
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- Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out if it alive.
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- Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted
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- Don't get even -- get odd!
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- Don't you feel more like you do now than you did when you came in?
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- Don't you wish you were where you were when you were wishing you were here?
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- Drive defensively. Buy a tank.
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- Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
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- Everyone talks about apathy, but no one does anything about it.
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- Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and
- the instruction afterward.
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- Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the
- Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
- Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-eight million miles is an
- utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life
- forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches
- are a pretty neat idea ...
- -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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- The memories of a man in his old age/Are the deeds of a man in his
- prime.--PFloyd
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- "Please return stewardess to original upright position"
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- "Suicide Hotline...please hold."
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- "Vote for Perot" - Bumper sticker attached with velcro.
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- A priest was walking along the cliffs at Dover when he came
- upon two locals pulling another man ashore on the end of a rope.
- "That's what I like to see", said the priest, "A man helping his fellow
- man". As he was walking away, one local remarked to the other, "Well,
- he sure doesn't know the first thing about shark fishing."
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