Subject: Miscellaneous (Page 44)

I’m so poor that if it cost a nickle to go around the world, I couldn’t get out of sight.

So dry he had the rattles

He was so nervous, he could thread a sewing machine while it was running.

I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied-up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that he was really my grandfather and the other guy was an impostor and to run for help.

Here’s a picture of me with R.E.M.; that’s me in the corner.

(1964 – ) English comedian

Gooder’n snuff and not half as dusty

I feel like a lost ball in a high weed.

Don’t care if I do.

I’m so mad I could eat barbed wire and spit nails.

I guess the hard thing for a lot of people to accept is why God would allow me to go running through their yards, yelling and spinning around.

Fixments

If you can't beat ‘em join ‘em, and if you can’t join ‘em beat ‘em.

Uglier than a mud fence

Who's pluckin' this chicken, me or you?

Flat as a fritter.

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don’t think it would be a good idea to say, “I swallowed it. So sue me.”

Wasn’t to no age.

He can get glad the same way he got mad, or else he's gon' die unhappy.

So hungry my belly thinks my throat's been cut.

Braggin’ dog

I don’t do quagmires.

(1932 – ) American businessman & U.S. Secretary of Defense