But even today, ninety per cent of the items covered by the word are forgettable objects in which cigarettes can be left to go stale.
ALAN CORENI sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
More Alan Coren Quotes
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Enjoy your life today because yesterday had gone and tomorrow may never come.
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Being a personality is not the same thing as having a personality.
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The Act of God designation on all insurance policies; which means, roughly, that you cannot be insured for the accidents that are most likely to happen to you.
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Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.
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I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.
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A humorist tells himself every morning, “I hope it’s going to be a rough day.” When things are going well, it’s much harder to make the right jokes.
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Television is more interesting than people. If it were not we should have people standing in the corner of our room.
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Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.
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Kumquats ripen, open and plop flatly to the floor-and outside, in a neat, trimly-hoed kitchen-garden.
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Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
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Disneyworld… is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin’s, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan’s.
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There are many mysteries in old age but the greatest, surely, is this: in those adverts for walk-in bathtubs, why doesn’t all the water gush out when you get in?
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All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.
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Having lost the last war, they are currently enjoying a “Wirtschaftswunder,” which can be briefly translated as “The best way to own a Mercedes is to build one.”
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Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic… being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated – south from Sweden in about 500 BC.
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