Subject: Things (Page 38)

Old? The only thing that kept it standing were the woodworms holding hands.

(1954 – ) American writer

Rummage Sale: Where you buy stuff from somebody else’s attic to store in your own.

I could stand up in the seat and not hit my head.

American auto racer

I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn’t afford… then I want to move in with them.

(1917 – 2012) comedian & actress

You might be a redneck if… you've painted a car with house paint.

(1958 – ) stand-up comedian & television personality

Some guy hit my fender and I said "be fruitful and multiply" but not in those words.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?

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

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

American entrepreneur & author

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

(1889 – 1945) actor, author & humorist

Only after locking your toolbox/shed at the end of a DIY job do you find another tool to return to your toolbox/shed.

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

(1863 – 1947) automobile industrialist

I have the oldest typewriter in the world; it types in pencil.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Never buy a man a plasma TV until you’re married; a lot of men once they have a plasma TV they don’t need a girlfriend.

(1963 – ) American comedian & author

A dropped power tool will always land on the concrete instead of the soft ground (if outdoors) or the carpet (if indoors) – unless it is running, in which case it will fall on something it can damage (like your foot).

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

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

(1950 – ) writer & humorist

I lost my mood ring and now I don't how to feel about it.

(1968 – ) American actor & comedian

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

(1911 – 1991) Swiss playwright & novelist

If you use the electric vibrator near water, you may come and go at the same time.


All inanimate objects can move just enough to get in your way.