It was the first time I was ever in love, and I learned a lot. Before that I’d never even thought about killing myself.
STEVEN WRIGHTConsciousness: That annoying time between naps.
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I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
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How much deeper would the ocean be if sponges didn’t live there?
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I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
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If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren’t people from Holland called Holes?
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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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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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Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.
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Why 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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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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My friend has a baby. I’m recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant.
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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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Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he’ll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it.
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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
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When I was in school the teachers told me practice makes perfect; then they told me nobody’s perfect so I stopped practicing.
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