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- From the
- JOKIN' AROUND AGAIN DISK
- by
- LEEJAN ENTERPRISES
- P.O. Box 66. Happy Valley.
- South Australia. 5159.
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-
- Williams and Holland's Law:
- If enough data is collected, anything may be proven by
- statistical methods.
- *
- Hoare's Law of Large Problems:
- Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get
- out.
- *
- Brooke's Law:
- Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool
- discovers something which either abolishes the system or
- expands it beyond recognition.
- *
- Meskimen's Law:
- There's never time to do it right, but there's always time to
- do it over.
- *
- Heller's Law:
- The first myth of management is that it exists.
- *
- Johnson's Corollary:
- Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere within the
- organization.
- *
- Peter's Law of Substitution:
- Look after the molehills, and the mountains will look after
- themselves.
- *
- Parkinson's Fourth Law:
- The number of people in any working group tends to increase
- regardless of the amount of work to be done.
- *
- Parkinson's Fifth Law:
- If there is a way to delay in important decision, the good
- bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.
- *
- Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labor:
- People are always available for work in the past tense.
- *
- Iron Law of Distribution:
- Them that has, gets.
- *
- H. L. Mencken's Law:
- Those who can -- do.
- Those who can't -- teach.
- *
- Martin's Extension:
- Those who cannot teach -- administrate.
- *
- Rule of Feline Frustration:
- When your cat has fallen asleep on your lap and looks utterly
- content and adorable, you will suddenly have to go to the
- bathroom.
- *
- After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access
- cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been
- removed.
- *
- After an instrument has been assembled, extra components will be found
- on the bench.
- *
- In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks)
- are to be treated as variables.
- *
- Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be.
- *
- First Law of Bicycling:
- No matter which way you ride, it's uphill and against the wind.
- *
- Boob's Law:
- You always find something in the last place you look.
- *
- Law of Communications:
- The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communications
- between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased
- area of misunderstanding.
- *
- Harris's Lament:
- All the good ones are taken.
- *
- If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
- *
- Putt's Law:
- Technology is dominated by two types of people:
- Those who understand what they do not manage.
- Those who manage what they do not understand.
- *
- First Law of Procrastination:
- Procrastination shortens the job and places the responsibility
- for its termination on someone else (i.e., the authority who
- imposed the deadline).
- *
- Fifth Law of Procrastination:
- Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that
- there is nothing important to do.
- *
- Swipple's Rule of Order:
- He who shouts the loudest has the floor.
- *
- Wiker's Law:
- Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.
- *
- Gray's Law of Programming:
- 'n+1' trivial tasks are expected to be accomplished in the same
- time as 'n' tasks.
- *
- Logg's Rebuttal to Gray's Law:
- 'n+1' trivial tasks take twice as long as 'n' trivial tasks.
- *
- Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules:
- The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of
- the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety
- percent.
- *
- Weinberg's First Law:
- Progress is made on alternate Fridays.
- *
- Paul's Law:
- In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.
- *
- Malek's Law:
- Any simple idea will be worded in the most complicated way.
- *
- Weinberg's Principle:
- An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while
- sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
- *
- Barth's Distinction:
- There are two types of people: those who divide people into
- two types, and those who don't.
- *
- Weiler's Law:
- Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it
- himself.
- *
- Beifeld's Principle:
- The probability of a young man meeting a desirable and
- receptive young female increases by pyramidal progression when
- he is already in the company of: (1) a date, (2) his wife, (3)
- a better looking and richer male friend.
- *
- Hartley's Second Law:
- Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.
- *
- Pardo's First Postulate:
- Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.
- *
- Arnold's Addendum:
- Anything not fitting into these categories causes cancer in
- rats.
- *
- Parker's Law:
- Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
- *
- Katz' Law:
- Man and nations will act rationally when all other
- possibilities have been exhausted.
- *
- Mr. Cole's Axiom:
- The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the
- population is growing.
- *
- Steele's Plagiarism of Somebody's Philosophy:
- Everybody should believe in something -- I believe I'll have
- another drink.
- *
- The Kennedy Constant:
- Don't get mad -- get even.
- *
- Canada Bill Jone's Motto:
- It's morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
- *
- Supplement:
- A .44 magnum beats four aces.
- *
- Your availability is your greatest asset.
- *
- Jone's Motto:
- Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
- *
- The Fifth Rule:
- You have taken yourself too seriously.
- *
- Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Government:
- No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the
- legislature is in session.
- *
- 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.
- *
- Newton's Little-Known Seventh Law:
- A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.
- *
- ROMEO: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
- MERCUTIO: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-
- door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.
- *
- "He is now rising from affluence to poverty."
- *
- A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody
- wants to read.
- *
- If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous,
- he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog
- and a man.
- *
- Cauliflower is nothing but Cabbage with a College Education.
- *
- But soft you, the fair Ophelia:
- Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws,
- But get thee to a nunnery -- go!
- *
- "Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is
- because we are not the person involved"
- *
- "...an experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite often
- picturesque liar."
- *
- I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I
- didn't know.
- *
- We have met the enemy, and he is us.
- *
- "Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse."
- *
- Mencken and Nathan's Second Law of The Average American:
- All the postmasters in small towns read all the postcards.
- *
- Mencken and Nathan's Ninth Law of The Average American:
- The quality of a champagne is judged by the amount of noise the
- cork makes when it is popped.
- *
- Mencken and Nathan's Fifteenth Law of The Average American:
- The worst actress in the company is always the manager's wife.
- *
- Mencken and Nathan's Sixteenth Law of The Average American:
- Milking a cow is an operation demanding a special talent that
- is possessed only by yokels, and no person born in a large city
- can never hope to acquire it.
- *
- Hark, the Herald Tribune sings,
- Advertising wondrous things.
- *
- Angels we have heard on High
- Tell us to go out and Buy.
- *
- The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher,
- Were each of them once a kiddie.
- A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature.
- Do I want one? God Forbiddie!
- *
- Who made the world I cannot tell;
- 'Tis made, and here am I in hell.
- My hand, though now my knuckles bleed,
- I never soiled with such a deed.
- *
- Families, when a child is born
- Want it to be intelligent.
- I, through intelligence,
- Having wrecked my whole life,
- Only hope the baby will prove
- Ignorant and stupid.
- Then he will crown a tranquil life
- By becoming a Cabinet Minister
- *
- The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for
- lists of "Ten Best".
- *
- We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love,
- we will cry over things we used to laugh &
- our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentile
- creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then &
- in the end a summer with wild winds &
- new friends will be.
- *
- This is for all ill-treated fellows
- Unborn and unbegot,
- For them to read when they're in trouble
- And I am not.
- *
- Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the
- beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get
- out, and such as are out wish to get in?
- *
- The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue,
- a custom whereof the memory of man runneth not howsomever to
- the contrary, nohow.
- *
- Emersons' Law of Contrariness:
- Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can.
- Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.
- *
- "By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
- In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others
- as it is to invent. (R. Emerson)"
- -- Quoted from a fortune cookie program
- (whose author claims, "Actually, stealing IS easier.")
- [to which I reply, "You think it's easy for me to
- misconstrue all these misquotations?!?"]
- *
- Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
- *
- There is a great discovery still to be made in Literature: that of
- paying literary men by the quantity they do NOT write.
- *
- "So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple
- pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops
- its head into the shop. "What! no soap?" So he died, and she very
- imprudently married the barber; and there were present the Picninnies,
- and the Grand Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top,
- and they all fell to playing the game of catch as catch can, till the
- gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots."
- *
- Hi there! This is just a note from me, to you, to tell you, the person
- reading this note, that I can't think up any more famous quotes, jokes,
- nor bizarre stories, so you may as well go home.
- *
- Arnold's Laws of Documentation:
- 1) If it should exist, it doesn't.
- 2) If it does exist, it's out of date.
- 3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the
- first two laws.
- *
- Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab:
- Experience is directly proportional to the amount of
- equipment ruined.
- *
- Boren's Laws:
- 1) When in charge, ponder.
- 2) When in trouble, delegate.
- 3) When in doubt, mumble.
- *
- Chisolm's First Corollary to Murphy's Second Law:
- When things just can't possibly get any worse, they will.
- *
- Rudin's Law:
- If there is a wrong way to do something, most people will
- do it every time.
- *
- Bucy's Law:
- Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
- *
- Hacker's Law:
- The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir
- a nation to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions.
- *
- Probable-Possible, my black hen,
- She lays eggs in the Relative When.
- She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now
- Because she's unable to postulate how.
- *
- Vail's Second Axiom:
- The amount of work to be done increases in proportion to the
- amount of work already completed.
- *
- "Sometimes I simply feel that the whole world is a cigarette and I'm
- the only ashtray."
- *
- Santa Claus wears a Red Suit,
- He must be a communist.
- And a beard and long hair,
- Must be a pacifist.
- *
- There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it
- *
- Two can Live as Cheaply as One for Half as Long.
- *
- Where there's a will, there's an Inheritance Tax.
- *
- It is generally agreed that "Hello" is an appropriate greeting because
- if you entered a room and said "Goodbye," it could confuse a lot of
- people.
- *
- Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of a human arm and commonly
- thrust into somebody's pocket.
- *
- You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for
- freedom and liberty.
- *
- Wit: The salt with which the American Humorist spoils his cookery...
- by leaving it out.
- *
- Yield to Temptation...it may not pass your way again.
- *
- I like work...
- I can sit and watch it for hours.
- *
- Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A.
- *
- "The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as
- we could with both of them."
- *
- Crime does not pay...as well as politics.
- *
- Keep you Eye on the Ball,
- Your Shoulder to the Wheel,
- Your Nose to the Grindstone,
- Your Feet on the Ground,
- Your Head on your Shoulders.
- Now...try to get something DONE!
- *
- Love is a word that is constantly heard,
- Hate is a word that is not.
- Love, I am told, is more precious than gold.
- Love, I have read, is hot.
- But hate is the verb that to me is superb,
- And Love but a drug on the mart.
- Any kiddie in school can love like a fool,
- But Hating, my boy, is an Art.
- *
- Magpie: A bird whose thievish disposition suggested to someone that it
- might be taught to talk.
- *
- Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon,
- there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he
- was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how
- completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday...
- *
- Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by
- Jackasses.
- *
- Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two
- periods of fighting.
- *
- NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Guiseppe? Everything he
- says is wrong.
- GUISEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says
- will be right.
- *
- People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who
- haven't what they want that they don't want it.
- *
- Avoid Quiet and Placid persons unless you are in Need of Sleep.
- *
- A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I.
- I believe everything positively stinks.
- *
- Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most Souls would scarcely
- get your Feet wet. Fall not in Love, therefore: it will stick to your
- face.
- *
- Recieving a million dollars tax free will make you feel better than
- being flat broke and having a stomach ache.
- *
- The Schwine-Kitzenger Institute study of 47 men over the age of 100
- showed that all had these things in common:
- 1) They all had moderate appetites.
- 2) They all came from middle class homes
- 3) All but two of them were dead.
- *
- Children aren't happy without something to ignore,
- And that's what parents were created for.
- *
- Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy,
- but it's very funny--
- Did you ever try buying them without money?
- *
- Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with
- a tempest of words.
- *
- Anyone who hates Dogs and Kids Can't be All Bad.
- *
- "Hey! Who took the cork off my lunch??!"
- *
- A dozen, a gross, and a score,
- Plus three times the square root of four,
- Divided by seven,
- Plus five time eleven,
- Equals nine squared plus zero, no more.
- *
- Clothes maketh the man. Naked people have little or no influence on
- society.
- *
- We really don't have any enemies. It's just that some of our best
- friends are trying to kill us.
- *
- If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
- *
- "This is a country where people are free to practice their religion,
- regardless of race, creed, color, obesity, or number of dangling
- keys..."
- *
- The ladies men admire, I've heard,
- Would shudder at a wicked word.
- Their candle gives a single light;
- They'd rather stay at home at night.
- They do not keep awake till three,
- Nor read erotic poetry.
- They never sanction the impure,
- Nor recognize an overture.
- They shrink from powders and from paints...
- So far, I've had no complaints.
- *
- I'm pretty sure to make my mark.
- If I'm in bed each night by ten,
- I may get back my looks again.
- If I abstain from fun and such,
- I'll probably amount to much;
- But I shall stay the way I am,
- Because I do not give a damn.
- *
- FIGHTING WORDS
- Say my love is easy had,
- Say I'm bitten raw with pride,
- Say I am too often sad --
- Still behold me at your side.
- *
- Say I'm neither brave nor young,
- Say I woo and coddle care,
- Say the devil touched my tongue --
- Still you have my heart to wear.
- *
- But say my verses do not scan,
- And I get me another man!
- *
- COMMENT
- Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
- A medley of extemporanea;
- And love is thing that can never go wrong;
- And I am Marie of Roumania.
- *
- INVENTORY
- Four be the things I am wiser to know:
- Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
- *
- Four be the things I'd been better without:
- Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
- *
- Three be the things I shall never attain:
- Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.
- *
- Three be the things I shall have till I die:
- Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.
- *
- The Abrams' Principle:
- The shortest distance between two points is off the wall.
- *
- "He's just a politician trying to save both his faces..."
- *
- "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing."
- *
- Every absurdity has a champion who will defend it.
- *
- He who Laughs, Lasts.
- *
- Now and then, an innocent man is sent to the Legislature.
- *
- Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the
- pens will multiply instead of disappear.
- *
- "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing,
- but I couldn't give up because by that time I was too famous."
- *
- Today is a good day to bribe a high-ranking public official.
- *
- To iterate is human, to recurse, divine.
- *
- Too much of a good thing is WONDERFUL.
- *
- Famous last words:
- You will be Told about it Tomorrow. Go Home and Prepare Thyself.
- *
- Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own
- opinion.
- *
- A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention,
- and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
- *
- Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to
- ourselves.
- *
- Adore: To venerate expectantly.
- *
- Alliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have
- their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot
- separately plunder a third.
- *
- Alone: In bad company.
- *
- Ambidextrous: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.
- *
- God made the world in six days, and was arrested on the seventh.
- *
- Anoint: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently
- slippery.
- *
- Bacchus: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for
- getting drunk.
- *
- Barometer: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather
- we are having.
- *
- Her locks an ancient lady gave
- Her loving husband's life to save;
- And men -- they honored so the dame --
- Upon some stars bestowed her name.
- *
- But to our modern married fair,
- Who'd give their lords to save their hair,
- No stellar recognition's given.
- There are not stars enough in heaven.
- *
- Birth: The first and direst of all disasters.
- *
- Bore: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
- *
- Brain: The apparatus with which we think that we think.
- *
- In our civilization, and under our republican form of government,
- intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption
- from the cares of office.
- *
- Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as
- a man's head.
- *
- Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum --
- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
- *
- Critic: A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries
- to please him.
- *
- Dawn: The time when men of reason go to bed.
- *
- Deliberation: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side
- it is buttered on.
- *
- Distress: A disease incurred by exposure to the prosperity of a friend.
- *
- A lady with one of her ears applied
- To an open keyhole heard, inside,
- Two female gossips in converse free --
- The subject engaging them was she.
- "I think", said one, "and my husband thinks
- That she's a prying, inquisitive minx!"
- As soon as no more of it she could hear
- The lady, indignant, removed her ear.
- "I will not stay," she said with a pout,
- "To hear my character lied about!"
- *
- Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
- *
- While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are
- safe, for you can watch both of his.
- *
- Garter: An elastic band intended to keep a woman from coming out of her
- stockings and desolating the country.
- *
- Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery
- of another.
- *
- Hatred: A sentiment appropriate to the occasion of another's
- superiority.
- *
- Heaven: A place where the wicked cease from troubling you with talk of
- their personal affairs, and the good listen with attention while you
- expound your own.
- *
- Did you know that clones never use mirrors?
- *
- Hippogriff:
- An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin.
- The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle.
- The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one quarter eagle, which is
- two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of
- surprises.
- *
- There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable,
- and praiseworthy...
- *
- Please ignore previous fortune.
- *
- Impartial: Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from
- espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two
- conflicting opinions.
- *
- Incumbent: Person of liveliest interest to the outcumbents.
- *
- Interpreter: One who enables two persons of different languages to
- understand each other by repeating to each what it would have been to
- the interpreter's advantage for the other to have said.
- *
- There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
- *
- You don't have to think too hard when you talk to teachers.
- *
- Do not read this fortune under penalty of law.
- Violators will be prosecuted.
- (Penal Code sec. 2.3.2 (II.a.))
- *
- You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.
- *
- gy-ro-scope: A wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and
- also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each
- other and the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two
- mutually perpindicular axes results from application of torque to the
- other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus
- offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any
- torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin.
- *
- Philogyny recapitulates erogeny; erogeny recapitulates philogyny.
- *
- The goal of science is to build better mousetraps.
- The goal of nature is to build better mice.
- *
- United Nations, New York, December 25. The peace and joy of the
- Christmas season was marred by a proclamation of a general strike of
- all the military forces of the world. Panic reigns in the hearts of
- all the patriots of every persuasion.
- *
- Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the
- world.
- *
- A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into
- superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
- *
- Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made
- sense from things she found in gift shops.
- *
- Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for
- word what you shouldn't have said.
- *
- Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as
- it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
- *
- Who needs friends when you can sit alone in your room and drink?
- *
- Friends, Romans, Hipsters,
- Let me clue you in;
- I come to put down Caeser, not to groove him.
- The square kicks some cats are on stay with them;
- The hip bits, like, go down under; so let it lay with Caeser.
- The cool Brutus gave you the message: Caeser had big eyes;
- If that's the sound, someone's copping a plea,
- And, like, old Caeser really set them straight.
- Here, copacetic with Brutus and the studs,
- for Brutus is a real cool cat;
- So are they all, all cool cats,
- Come I to make this gig at Caeser's laying down.
- *
- Now I lay me down to sleep
- I pray the double lock will keep;
- May no brick through the window break,
- And, no one rob me till I awake.
- *
- Did you know...
- That no-one ever reads these things?
- *
- Hark, Hark, the dogs do bark
- The Duke is fond of kittens
- He likes to take their insides out
- And use them for his mittens
- *
- An elephant is a mouse with an operating system.
- *
- A sine curve goes off to infinity or at least the end of the blackboard
- *
- Every successful person has had failures but repeated failure is no
- guarantee of eventual success.
- *
- NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!
- *
- It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the
- problem.
- *
- Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name
- correctly (Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into
- (Nick-les Worth). Which is to say that Europeans call him by name, but
- Americans call him by value.
- *
- The number of licorice gumballs you get out of a gumball machine
- increases in direct proportion to how much you hate licorice.
- *
- If you push the "extra ice" button on the soft drink vending machine,
- you won't get any ice. If you push the "no ice" button, you'll get
- ice, but no cup.
- *
- Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
- *
- Let He who taketh the Plunge Remember to return it by Tuesday.
- *
- Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate.
- *
- Those who can't write, write manuals.
- *
- Surprise! You are the lucky winner of random I.R.S Audit! Just type
- in your name and social security number. Please remember that leaving
- the room is punishable under law:
- *
- Name #
- *
- Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.
- *
- A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
- *
- Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you.
- *
- Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you. Now, if they'd only
- take a bath...
- *
- "He was so narrow minded he could see through a keyhole with both
- eyes..."
- *
- It seems like the less a statesman amounts to,
- the more he loves the flag.
- *
- Why did the Lord give us so much quickness of movement unless it was to
- avoid responsibility with?
- *
- SHIFT TO THE LEFT! SHIFT TO THE RIGHT!
- POP UP, PUSH DOWN, BYTE, BYTE, BYTE!
- *
- The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the
- average man can see better than he can think.
- *
- "If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows."
- *
- Waiter: "Tea or coffee, gentlemen?"
- 1st customer: "I'll have tea."
- 2nd customer: "Me, too -- and be sure the glass is clean!"
- (Waiter exits, returns)
- Waiter: "Two teas. Which one asked for the clean glass?"
- *
- The men sat sipping their tea in silence. After a while the klutz
- said, "Life is like a bowl of sour cream."
- "Like a bowl of sour cream?" asked the other. "Why?"
- "How should I know? What am I, a philosopher?"
- *
- Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on
- people.
- *
- There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale
- returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
- *
- This will be a memorable month -- no matter how hard you try to forget it.
- *
- Afternoon very favorable for romance. Try a single person for a change.
- *
- Beware of low-flying butterflies.
- *
- Green light in A.M. for new projects. Red light in P.M. for
- traffic tickets.
- *
- Artistic ventures highlighted. Rob a museum.
- *
- Keep emotionally active. Cater to your favorite neurosis.
- *
- Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient. Don't believe a
- thing he tells you.
- *
- Do not drink coffee in early A.M. It will keep you awake until noon.
- *
- You may be recognized soon. Hide.
- *
- You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today.
- *
- Good day for overcoming obstacles. Try a steeplechase.
- *
- Day of inquiry. You will be subpoenaed.
- *
- You could get a new lease on life -- if only you didn't need the first
- and last month in advance.
- *
- Surprise your boss. Get to work on time.
- *
- You're being followed. Cut out the hanky-panky for a few days.
- *
- Future looks spotty. You will spill soup in late evening.
- *
- Don't feed the bats tonight.
- *
- Stay away from flying saucers today.
- *
- You've been leading a dog's life. Stay off the furniture.
- *
- Do not sleep in a eucalyptus tree tonight.
- *
- Help a swallow land at Capistrano.
- *
- Succumb to natural tendencies. Be hateful and boring.
- *
- Half Moon tonight. (At least its better than no Moon at all.)
- *
- Another good night not to sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
- *
- Message will arrive in the mail. Destroy, before the FBI sees it.
- *
- Do what comes naturally now. Seethe and fume and throw a tantrum.
- *
- Perfect day for scrubbing the floor and other exciting things.
- *
- Be free and open and breezy! Enjoy! Things won't get any better so
- get used to it.
- *
- Truth will be out this morning. (Which may really mess things up.)
- *
- Travel important today; Internal Revenue men arrive tomorrow.
- *
- Good day for a change of scene. Repaper the bedroom wall.
- *
- You can create your own opportunities this week.
- Blackmail a senior executive.
- *
- Fine day to throw a party. Throw him as far as you can.
- *
- Good news. Ten weeks from Friday will be a pretty good day.
- *
- Think of your family tonight. Try to crawl home after the computer
- crashes.
- *
- Show respect for age. Drink good Scotch for a change.
- *
- Give thought to your reputation. Consider changing name and moving to
- a new town.
- *
- If you think last Tuesday was a drag, wait till you see what happens
- tomorrow!
- *
- Excellent day to have a rotten day.
- *
- You worry too much about your job. Stop it. You are not paid enough
- to worry.
- *
- Don't tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.
- *
- Others will look to you for stability, so hide when you bite your nails.
- *
- Tonight's the night: Sleep in a eucalyptus tree.
- *
- A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
- *
- Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as
- they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out
- a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
- *
- Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery
- of another.
- *
- Our country has plenty of good five-cent cigars, but the trouble is
- they charge fifteen cents for them.
- *
- Question:
- Man Invented Alcohol,
- God Invented Grass.
- Who do you trust?
- *
- The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up
- in the morning, and does not stop until you get to school.
- *
- You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
- *
- Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which
- otherwise require harder thinking.
- *
- Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to
- criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.
- *
- The correct way to punctuate a sentence that starts: "Of course it is
- none of my business, but --" is to place a period after the word "but."
- Don't use excessive force in supplying such a moron with a period.
- Cutting his throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you
- talked about.
- *
- What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?
- *
- If at first you don't succeed, give up, no use being a damn fool.
- *
- According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are
- totally worthless.
- *
- Wasting time is an important part of living.
- *
- Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders
- has been discontinued.
- *
- I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday
- life.
- *
- Excellent day for drinking heavily. Spike office water cooler.
- *
- Excellent time to become a missing person.
- *
- A day for firm decisions!!!!! Or is it?
- *
- Fine day to work off excess energy. Steal something heavy.
- *
- Things will be bright in P.M. A cop will shine a light in your face.
- *
- Good day to avoid cops. Crawl to school.
- *
- Screw up your courage! You've screwed up everything else.
- *
- Don't believe everything you hear or anything you say.
- *
- Do something unusual today. Pay a bill.
- *
- You will be a winner today. Pick a fight with a four-year-old.
- *
- Troubled day for virgins over 16 who are beautiful and wealthy and live
- in eucalyptus trees.
- *
- Surprise due today. Also the rent.
- *
- Avoid reality at all costs.
- *
- Good day to let down old friends who need help.
- *
- Next Friday will not be your lucky day. As a matter of fact, you don't
- have a lucky day this year.
- *
- You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading
- this sort of trash.
- *
- What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket.
- *
- Don't go surfing in South Dakota for a while.
- *
- Celebrate Hannibal Day this year. Take an elephant to lunch.
- *
- Stay away from hurricanes for a while.
- *
- A chubby man with a white beard and a red suit will approach you soon.
- Avoid him. He's a Commie.
- *
- Caution: breathing may be hazardous to your health.
- *
- Nihilism should commence with oneself.
- *
- Nudists are people who wear one-button suits.
- *
- Old soldiers never die. Young ones do.
- *
- UFO's are for real: the Air Force doesn't exist.
- *
- In case of atomic attack, the federal ruling against prayer in schools
- will be temporarily canceled.
- *
- Drive defensively. Buy a tank.
- *
- Alexander Graham Bell is alive and well in New York, and still waiting
- for a dial tone.
- *
- The meek shall inherit the earth -- they are too weak to refuse.
- *
- Condense soup, not books!
- *
- The world is coming to an end! Repent and return those library books!
- *
- Philadelphia is not dull -- it just seems so because it is next to
- exciting Camden, New Jersy.
- *
- Never be led astray onto the path of virtue.
- *
- Give your child mental blocks for Christmas.
- *
- Mickey Mouse wears a Spiro Agnew watch.
- *
- Minnie Mouse is a slow maze learner.
- *
- Don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon.
- *
- Keep America beautiful. Swallow your beer cans.
- *
- What this country needs is a good five cent ANYTHING!
- *
- Hire the morally handicapped.
- *
- I can resist anything but temptation.
- *
- Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
- *
- Don't knock President Fillmore. He kept us out of Vietnam.
- *
- Earn cash in your spare time -- blackmail your friends.
- *
- Keep grandma off the streets -- legalize bingo.
- *
- Reporter (to Mahatma Gandhi): Mr Gandhi, what do you think of
- Western Civilization?
- Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.
- *
- Xerox never comes up with anything original.
- *
- "All flesh is grass"
- -- Isiah
- Smoke a friend today.
- *
- "You'll never be the man your mother was!"
- *
- George Orwell was an optimist.
- *
- Chicken Little was right.
- *
- "Qvid me anxivs svm?"
- *
- Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks.
- *
- Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
- *
- Don't cook tonight -- starve a rat today!
- *
- They're only trying to make me LOOK paranoid!
- *
- Remember, UNIX spelled backwards is XINU.
- *
- Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at
- once.
- *
- If God had wanted you to go around nude, He would have given you bigger
- hands.
- *
- What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
- *
- Losing your drivers' license is just God's way of saying "BOOGA, BOOGA!"
- *
- A closed mouth gathers no foot.
- *
- A diva who specializes in risqu'e arias is an off-coloratura soprano...
- *
- Q: How many IBM cpu's does it take to do a logical right shift?
- A: 33. 1 to hold the bits and 32 to push the register.
- *
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- *
- "Who cares if it doesn't do anything? It was made with our new
- Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process..."
- *
- "There are three possibilities: Pioneer's solar panel has turned away
- from the sun; there's a large meteor blocking transmission; or someone
- loaded Star Trek 3.2 into our video processor."
- *
- If time heals all wounds, how come the belly button stays the same?
- *
- Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.
- *
- Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down
- *
- Down with categorical imperative!
- *
- Earn cash in your spare time -- blackmail your friends
- *
- Life is a yo-yo, and mankind ties knots in the string.
- *
- Things are more like they used to be than they are now.
- *
- Hummingbirds never remember the words to songs.
- *
- Lysistrata had a good idea.
- *
- Reality is an obstacle to hallucination.
- *
- Paul Revere was a tattle-tale
- *
- Familiarity breeds attempt
- *
- Coronation: The ceremony of investing a sovereign with the outward and
- visible signs of his divine right to be blown skyhigh with a dynamite
- bomb.
- *
- Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs.
- *
- Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long
- walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh. They
- then point with pride to these practices as the cause of their sturdy
- health and ripe years; the truth being that they are hearty and old,
- not because of their habits, but in spite of them. The reason we find
- only robust persons doing this thing is that it has killed all the
- others who have tried it.
- *
- Idiot: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human
- affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
- *
- Honorable: Afflicted with an impediment in one's reach. In legislative
- bodies, it is customary to mention all members as honorable; as, "the
- honorable gentleman is a scurvy cur."
- *
- Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointments.
- *
- God did not create the world in 7 days; he screwed around for 6 days
- and then pulled an all-nighter.
- *
- God is a polythiest
- *
- God isn't dead, he just couldn't find a parking place.
- *
- If God is perfect, why did He create discontinuous functions?
- *
- "And what will you do when you grow up to be as big as me?"
- asked the father of his little son.
- "Diet."
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