Subject: Things (Page 30)

The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes.

(1947 – ) American columnist & humorist

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

(1983 – ) American stand-up comedian & writer

Anything is easier to take apart than it is to put together.

Officer, I know I was going faster than 55 MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the
 road an hour.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Last week the candle factory burned down… everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

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

I went to look for a used car; I found my wife's dress in the back seat!

(1921 – 2004) stand-up comedian & actor

Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

I can't tell you his age, but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.

(1908 – 2002) comedian, radio & television actor

Things always fall at right angles.

People can have the Model T in any color – so long as it's black.

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

To attract men, I wear a perfume called New Car Interior.

(1953 – ) comedian, dancer & writer

The pen is mightier than the sword, and considerably easier to write with.

(1934 – 1982) English writer, comedian & actor

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

(1931 – ) television newscaster

The most delicate component will be dropped.

Pumpkins are the only living organisms with triangle eyes.

(1962 – ) Canadian-American actor, comedian, author & radio personality

I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead… I think I did that joke backwards.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

If blind people wear dark glasses, why don’t deaf people wear earmuffs?

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

An object at rest will be in the wrong place.