The older you get, the more you learn to see what you’ve been taught to see. When you’re a kid, you see what’s there.
STEVEN WRIGHTWhy do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don’t they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?
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I’m addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn’t matter.
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Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
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You know when you’re sitting on a chair and you lean back so you’re just on two legs and you lean too far so you almost fall over but at the last second you catch yourself? I feel like that all the time.
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I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.
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My nephew has HDADHD. High Definition Attention Deficit Disorder. He can barely pay attention, but when he does it’s unbelievably clear.
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I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
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If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
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Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring… ‘How to Build a Boat.’
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I wish the first word I ever said was the word “quote”, so right before I die I could say “unquote”.
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You know what scares me? When you have to be nice to some paranoid schizophrenic, just because she lives in your head.
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Why, in a country of free speech, are there phone bills?
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I installed a skylight in my apartment, the people who live above me are furious!
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I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
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I went for a walk last night and she asked me how long I was going to be gone. I said, ‘The whole time.
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I got a new dog. He’s a paranoid retriever. He brings back everything because he’s not sure what I threw him.
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