Subject: Things (Page 23)

Socializing on the internet is to socializing, what reality TV is to reality.

(1961 – ) American playwright & screenwriter

I was at the plant shop for the fourth time last week asking the guy to please sell me something with a will to live.

(1984 – ) American stand-up comedian

Boycott shampoo… demand the REAL poo!

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

The distance you have to park from your apartment increases in proportion to the weight of packages you are carrying.

There’s an unseen force which lets birds know when you’ve just washed your car.

(1922 – ) English comedy writer & television presenter

Photograph: A picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

Traffic increases to fill the road space available.

I just bought a microwave fireplace… you can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Frasier: If a child of four can ride one, (a bicycle), then so can we.

Niles: That’s what you said when we were six.

(1959 – ) American actor

Your wife's stored possessions will always be on top of your stored possessions.

Antique: Something too old to be anything but too expensive.

I know the guy who writes all those bumper stickers… and he hates New York.


To err is human but to really foul up requires a computer.

(1931 – ) television newscaster

The Yugo has come out with a very clever antitheft device… they made their name bigger.

(1950 – ) comedian & television host

A bargain is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist.

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist

If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

(1866 – 1944) American writer, newspaper columnist, playwright & humorist

Absolutum obsoletum – If it works, it’s out of date.

It is a mistake to let any mechanical object realize that you are in a hurry.

Can a 3-D printer make ink cartridges for a 2-D printer?

(1983 – ) American stand-up comedian & writer

I bought a scratch off lottery ticket, but then I accidentally spilled calamine lotion on it, so it did not need to be scratched. Shoot! I will not know if I have won!

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Ever since the young men have owned motorcycles, incest has been dying out.

(1911 – 1991) Swiss playwright & novelist