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Fairway: The well-kept and seldom used portion of a golf course.
Anonymous
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Golf
Sports
Fairway
Pessimism: A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842 – 1914) author & satirist
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Death: A breath-taking experience.
Anonymous
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Accountant: One who uses your books to figure his profit.
Anonymous
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Morality: An instinctive sense of right and wrong that tells some people how everyone else should behave.
Anonymous
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Brassiere: A bust stop.
Anonymous
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Upper Crust: People stuck together by their dough.
Anonymous
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Hero: One who is afraid to run away.
Anonymous
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Diet: The penalty for exceeding the feed limit.
Anonymous
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Shoplifting: Free enterprise.
Anonymous
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Argument: A discussion that occurs when you’re right, but the other person hasn’t realized it yet.
Anonymous
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Vision: Looking farther than you can see.
Anonymous
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Dna: A complex organic molecule characterized as the building block of life and appropriately shaped like a spiral staircase to nowhere.
Rick Bayan
(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
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DNA
A man with both feet planted firmly in the air.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1882 – 1945) 32nd U.S. president
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A radical
Also Jacques Barzun
Good Neighbor: One who doesn’t borrow his garden hose back too often.
Anonymous
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Good Neighbor
Epitaph: A monumental lie.
Anonymous
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Taxation: The process by which money is collected from the people to pay the salaries of the men who do the collecting.
Anonymous
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Positive Thinking: self-improvement through self-deception.
Rick Bayan
(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter
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Positive Thinking
Woman: A creature whom God made beautiful that man might love her, and unreasonable that she might love man.
Anonymous
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London: A place you go to get bronchitis.
Fran Lebowitz
(1950 – ) writer & humorist
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Baby: Nine months interest on a small deposit.
Anonymous
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