Subject: Miscellaneous (Page 25)

Met a guy this morning with a glass eye; he didn’t tell me – it just came out in the conversation.

(1954 – ) American writer

Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.

He’s screw a snake in a sandstorm if someone’d hold it out straight for him.

If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you’re in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don’t know what to tell you.

Sat there like a bump on a log.

If I ever become a mummy, I’m going to have it so when somebody opens my lid, a boxing glove on a spring shoots out.

Less chance than a snowball in Hell.

Strong as a new well rope

Sometimes life seems like a dream, especially when I look down and see that I forgot to put on my pants.

I would like to buy him for what he is worth and sell him for what he thinks he is worth.

It is so hot… chickens are laying hard-boiled eggs.

If you’re an archaeologist, I bet it’s real embarrassing to put together a skull from a bunch of ancient bone fragments, but then it turns out it’s not a skull but just an old dried-out potato.

It’s hotter than the hinges of Hell.

Before a mad scientist goes mad, there’s probably a time when he’s only partially mad… and this is the time when he’s going to throw his best parties.

Hotter than two rabbits screwin’ in a wool sock!

Act like you’ve got some raisin.

We in the short rows.

I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF!

A faint heart never won a fair lady or stole a watermelon.

A mule can’t help it if his daddy is a jackass.

Cooler than a flip side of a down pillow.