Subject: Things (Page 38)

I knew a guy who had a waterbed on a houseboat, to cancel out the rocking.

(1961 – ) American stand-up comedian

If you’re a battery, you’re either working or you’re dead… it’s a shit life.

(1973 – ) American comedian

I'm moving to Mars next week, so if you have any boxes…

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Boat: A hole in the water surrounded by wood into which one pours money.

When I was 15 years old, I got my learner’s permit, which meant that the state of Florida was now obligating me to learn to drive with the two worst drivers in the world: my mom and my dad.

(1959 – ) American comedian, comedy writer, actor & author

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

Respirator: An apparatus fitted over the nose and mouth… whereby to filter the visible universe in its passage to the lungs.

(1842 – 1914) author & satirist

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


I like to imagine the guy who invented the umbrella was going to call it the ‘brella’, but he hesitated.

comedian

Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.

(1947 – ) comedian & television host

I'm into carpooling, because sometimes my car gets hot and needs to refresh itself.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

I bought some used paint… it was in the shape of a house.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

If you play with anything long enough, it will break.

The smallest interval of time known to man is that which occurs in Manhattan between the traffic signal turning green and the taxi driver behind you blowing his horn.

(1925 – 2005) television host

Beware of programmers carrying screwdrivers.

American computer programmer

Life is too short to own a German car.

(1937 – 2014) American co-host of radio show “Car Talk”

Met a guy this morning with a glass eye; he didn’t tell me – it just came out in the conversation.

(1954 – ) American writer

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

A mobile home with a flat tire is a home.

(1973 – ) American comedian

I like to leave messages before the beep.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

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

(1908 – 1980) businessman, humorist