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2 rules to success in life. 1. Don't tell people everything you know.

When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl.


Sign on bank: We can loan you enough money to get you completely out of debt.

Warranty and guaranty clauses are voided by payment of the invoice.

An oral contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

The beatings will continue.....until morale improves

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. -- Anonymous

The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it. --Anonymous


Do people who wear clothing made of struthious skin get ostracized? -Anu


A day without paronomasia is a day without punshine.

To err is human, to moo bovine.

I think, therefore I am. I think.

This aphorism would be seven words long if it were six words shorter.

Never go off on tangents, which are lines that intersect a curve at only one point and were discovered by Euclid, who lived in the sixth century, which was an era dominated by the Goths, who lived in what we now know as Poland...

Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

Verbosity obfuscates. -William Priest

When you've seen one non-sequitur, the price of tea in China.

Some people would not recognize subtlety if it hit them on the head.

What if there were no hypothetical situations? -Andrew Kohlsmith

It is bad luck to be superstitious. -Andrew Mathis

Why is it so difficult to remember the spelling of the word mnemonic?

Aibohphobia: the fear of palidromes

Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters.

Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it's said?

Don't anthropomorphize computers. They don't like it.

Don't use a big word if a diminuitive one will suffice.

Oppugn hyperpolysyllabicsesquipedalianism

 


A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

Under-Achievers Anonymous has an 11-step program.

An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.



Where there is a will, there is an Inheritance Tax.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.

All wood and no ply makes Jack a dull board

When you're swimming in the creek, And an eel bites your cheek, That's a moray! - Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers).

When my sibling asked me a sweeping question about planetary orbits, I replied, "Am I my brother's Kepler?" Robert Friedhoffer 



If an infinite number of rednecks, driving an infinite number of pickup trucks, fire an infinite number of shotgun rounds at an infinite number of highway signs, they will eventually produce all the world's great literary works, in Braille.
- Omni

Sorry, but my karma just ran over your dogma.



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