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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?
Why don't sheep shrink in the rain?
Why do you drive on parkways and park on driveways?
Why do noses run and feet smell?
Why is it that night falls, and dawn cracks, but day breaks?
Why is Greenland ice and Iceland green?
How do you know when you've run out of invisible ink?
I have the world's largest Seashell collection...I have them scattered on
beaches all over the world.
I have a box of instant water at home...problem is I dont know what to add..
When shooting a mime should you use a silencer?
I bought some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.
Yesterday, I was, oh no, that wasn't me.
Did you hear about the guy who got fired for getting his hand stuck in
the dishwasher? They fired the dishwasher too......
Procrastinate now!
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
I used to be indecisive, now I'm not sure.
SAVE THE WALES.....HARPOON A FAT CHICK !!
...When she sunbathes, Greenpeace tries to put her back in the water!
Love your neighbor but don't get caught. Dr. J.
Why do stores that stay open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year have locks
on the front doors??
"Respect you in the morning? Gee, I wasn't planning on staying that long."
Reincarnation: life sucks, then you die. Then life sucks again.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
What does the Easter Bunny get for making baskets?
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."
"If you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, why do they
taste more like prunes than rhubarb does?" -Groucho Marx
Confucius say "Man who walk middle of road get run over by bus."
"People who make Confucius joke speak bad English."
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.
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.
Confucius say: I didn't say that!
Woman who put husband in doghouse soon find him in cat-house.
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.
Why were there 600 mexicans at the Alamo? They only had two cars.
Two guys in a Yugo were arrested last night in Oakland following a push-by
shooting incident.
The new Yugo has an air bag. When you sense an impending accident.....
... start pumping real fast!
JOIN THE MARINES!
Travel to exotic, distant lands. Meet exciting unusual people and kill them.
"To vacillate or not to vacillate, that is the question....
....or is it?"
I'm growing older but not up... - Jimmy Buffett
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their
guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. -- Mark Twain
"Do not adjust you mind, it is reality that is malfunctioning."
"When they make expanded polystyrene what do they ship it in?"
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.
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.
At McClellan Air Force base in Sacramento, California, civilian
mechanics were placed on "non-duty, non-pay status." That is, they were
fired.
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.
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.
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.
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]
If I'd know that I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better
care of myself.
Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.
A man should live forever, or die trying.
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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.
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power
All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life
is to enjoy it.
All this wheeling and dealing around, why, it isn't for money, it's for
fun. Money's just the way we keep score.
Pittsburgh Driver's Test:-
(8) Pedestrians are
(a) irrelevant.
(b) communists.
(c) a nuisance.
(d) difficult to clean off the front grille.
The correct answer is (a). Pedestrians are not in cars, so they are
totally irrelevant to driving; you should ignore them completely.
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
Atlanta makes it against the law to tie a giraffe to a telephone pole
or street lamp.
Remember: Oprah spelled backwards is Harpo!
But officer, I was only trying to gain enough speed so I could coast
to the nearest gas station.
It's morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
Celibacy is not hereditary.
Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.
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.
Cigarette, n.:
A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of tobacco in
between.
Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery.
Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out if it alive.
Don't be irreplaceable. If you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted
Don't get even -- get odd!
Don't you feel more like you do now than you did when you came in?
Don't you wish you were where you were when you were wishing you were here?
Drive defensively. Buy a tank.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Everyone talks about apathy, but no one does anything about it.
Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and
the instruction afterward.
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"
The memories of a man in his old age/Are the deeds of a man in his
prime.--PFloyd
"Please return stewardess to original upright position"
"Suicide Hotline...please hold."
"Vote for Perot" - Bumper sticker attached with velcro.
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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