My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimes she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon’s appointments.
STEVEN WRIGHTI 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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Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.
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Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery’s dead?
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Consciousness: That annoying time between naps.
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How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?
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To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
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I went to a restaurant that serves ‘breakfast at any time’. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
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Imagine how weird phones would look if your mouth was nowhere near your ears.
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If a mute kid swears, should his mother wash his hands with soap?
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Support bacteria – they’re the only culture some people have.
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When I turned two I was really anxious, because I’d doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I’m six I’ll be ninety.
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If a man says something in the woods and there are no women there, is he still wrong?
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My doctor told me I shouldn’t work out until I’m in better shape. I told him, ‘All right; don’t send me a bill until I pay you.’
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I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time.
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I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
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Everyone has a photographic Memory, some just don’t have film.
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I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.
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I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
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Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.
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Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person who drives a racing car not called a racist?
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One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, “Didn’t you see the stop sign?” I said, “Yeah, but I don’t believe everything I read”
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How do you get off a non-stop flight?
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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.
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If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.
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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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Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
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Some friends of mine got me a sweater for my birthday. I’d have preferred a moaner or a screamer, but the sweater was OK.
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