Some people have facts; these can be proven. Some people have theories; these can be disproven. But people with opinions are mindless and have their minds made up about it.
P. J. O'ROURKEAs a former writer for the ‘National Lampoon,’ I’ve probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.
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I read good. I was an English major.
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Head lice have their own animal-rights group, or may as well. The National Pediculosis Association doesn’t exactly advocate letting lice live with dignity, but it does oppose pediculicidal treatments.
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Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make threatening him with it much more effective.
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Don’t send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
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When I’m in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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A fundamental American question is, ‘What’s the big idea?’
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Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.
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Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Wealth brings great benefits to the world. Rich people are heros.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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