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Camping is nature’s way of promoting the motel business.
You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, “My God, you’re right! I never would’ve thought of that!”
On the Japanese news, if the announcers had happy faces and perky voices, I knew that meant good news, such as that Japanese scientists had discovered a way to make VCR’s even more difficult for Americans to program; whereas if the announcers had serious voices and frowny faces, it meant bad news, such as the worsening eel shortage.
Experts tell us that if the Millennium Bug is not fixed, when the year 2000 arrives, our financial records will be inaccurate, our telephone system will be unreliable, our government will be paralyzed and airline flights will be canceled without warning. In other words, things will be pretty much the same as they are now.
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Have you noticed that whatever sport you’re trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.
The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.
It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear. A real guy checks the garbage regularly in case somebody—and we are not naming names but this would be his wife—is quietly trying to discard his underwear, which she is frankly jealous of, because the guy seems to have a more intimate relationship with it than with her.
In the past decade or so, the women’s magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop; eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.
The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
You should do your own car repairs. It’s an easy way to save money and possibly maim yourself for life.
Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.
