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Karate is a form of marital arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
Dave Barryborn 1947
Without computers, the government would be unable to function at the
level of effectiveness and efficiency that we have come to expect.
This is because the primary function of the government is⁠—and here I
am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution⁠—‘to spew out paper.’
Dave Barryborn 1947Dave Barry in Cyberspace
- Technology
I recently had my annual physical examination, which I get once every seven years, and when the nurse weighed me, I was shocked to discover how much stronger the Earth’s gravitational pull has become since 1990.
Dave Barryborn 1947
Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Guns
Tokyo is huge. Something like 15 million people live there, and my estimate is that at any given moment, 14.7 million of them are lost. This is because the Tokyo street system holds the world outdoor record for randomness. A map of Tokyo looks like a tub of hyperactive bait. There is virtually no street that goes directly from anywhere to anywhere.
Dave Barryborn 1947
We’ll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail.
Dave Barryborn 1947“Believe me, you’ll pay for this” Tampa Bay Times (Oct. 16, 2005)
I realise that I’m making gender-based generalizations here, but my feeling is that if God did not want us to make gender-based generalizations, She would not have given us genders.
Dave Barryborn 1947
The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read, and they have far more teeth than would be necessary for a strictly seafood diet. Their mouths look like the entire $39.95 set of Ginsu knives, including the handy Arm Slicer.
Dave Barryborn 1947
The Internet: Transforming Society and Shaping the Future Through Chat.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Internet
We should enact an ‘e’ tax. Government agents would roam the country looking for stores whose names contained any word that ended in an unnecessary ‘e,’ such as ‘shoppe’ or ‘olde,’ and the owners of these stores would be taxed at a flat rate of $50,000 per year per ‘e.’ We should also consider an additional $50,000 ‘ye’ tax, so that the owner of a store called ‘Ye Olde Shoppe’ would have to fork over $150,000 a year. In extreme cases, such as ‘Ye Olde Barne Shoppe,’ the owner would simply be taken outside and shot.
Dave Barryborn 1947
If you were to open up a baby’s head⁠—and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should⁠—you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland.
Dave Barryborn 1947
If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.
Dave Barryborn 1947
I figured out why I’m not getting seriously rich. I write newspaper columns. Nobody ever makes newspaper columns into Major Motion Pictures starring Tom Cruise. The best you can hope for, with a newspaper column, is that people will like it enough to attach it to their refrigerators with magnets shaped like fruit.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Journalism
The reason gas stations sell food, of course, is that the supermarkets are busy cashing checks. The supermarkets have to cash checks because the banks are busy mailing unsolicited credit cards to everybody in the Western Hemisphere. The result is that very few people fix cars.
Dave Barryborn 1947
My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M’s and a chocolate cake. I feel better already.
Dave Barryborn 1947