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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.

Alan Coren

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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Accident Act Cannot Incur Designation God Insurance Policy Roughly
The word “souvenir” has, of course, slightly extended itself in meaning until it now denotes almost anything either breakable or useless.
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Anything Breakable Denote Either Extend Meaning Slightly Souvenir Useless
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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Day Every Going Hard Hope Humorist Joke Morning Much Rough Well
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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Brief Curent Enjoy Lost Mercedeas Own Translate
Inside this hothouse, huge lascivious orchids slide sensuously up the sweating windows, passion-flowers cross-pollinate in wild heliotrope abandon, lotuses writhe with poppies in the sweet warm beds.
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Bed Flower Heliotrope Hothouse Inside Lascivious Lotus Orchid Passion Poppies Sweat Sweet Warm Window
Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
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Dehydrate Exist Land Merely Sea Speak Strict
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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Advert Age Bathtub Greatest Gush Mystery Old Out Surely Walk Water
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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Country Emigrate Ethnical Made South Up
Malta is the only country in the world where the local delicacy is the bread.
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Bread Country Delicacy Local Only World
English Bohemianism is a curiously unluscious fruit.
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Unlusiocous Bohemianism Curiously English Fruit
To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.
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Grievance Life Purpose
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.
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Cigarette Cover Even Forgettable Item Lest Ninety Object State Today
All I know of birds to this date is that sparrows are the ones that are not pigeons.
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All Bird Date One Pigeon Sparrow
Jacob is a German Shepherd. (I have never understood why they aren’t called German Sheepdogs. What do the Germans call shepherds?)
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Call Country Extend Person Sheepdog Shepherd
Why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral.
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Clear Country Emigrate Exactly Go Neutral Saw Scholar
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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Coner Interim People More People Room Stand Television

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