Subject: Things (Page 22)

I love that smell of the emissions!

(1964 – ) U.S. governor (Alaska) commentator & author

I’d like to make a vending machine that sells vending machines; it’d have to be real big!

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Bachelor's degrees make pretty good placemats if you get 'em laminated.

(1980 – ) cartoonist

Oar: Clumsy wooden implement used to moisten boat occupants.

I think a treehouse is really insensitive; that's like killing something and then making one of its friends hold it.

(1973 – ) American comedian

Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.

(1971 – ) American actor, director & producer

Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.

(1917 – ) English physicist & science fiction author

I was doing some decorating, so I got out my step-ladder… I don't get on with my real ladder.

(1973 – ) English comedian, writer, actor, director & producer

We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?


(1924 – ) American businessman, president, CEO of Chrysler Corporation

Houseplants: Vegetable companions; pleasant green pets that rarely bite or throw up on the carpet.

(1950 – ) American author, satirist, webmaster & copywriter

If you find something you like buy a lifetime supply – they’re going to stop making it.

Bought an ant farm the other day… them fellas didn’t grow shit.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Traffic congestion increases in proportion to the length of time the street is supervised by a traffic control officer.

Police radios are the aural equivalent of doctors’ handwriting.

(1933 – 2008) American writer

Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.

I think it’s interesting that ‘cologne’ rhymes with ‘alone.’

(1973 – ) American comedian

Office machines that function perfectly during normal business hours will break down when you return at night to use them for personal business.

Any program will expand to fill available memory.

The snapshots you take of your husband are always more flattering than the ones he takes of you.

My watch is three hours fast, and I can’t fix it… so I’m going to move to New York.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist