If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?
STEVEN WRIGHTIf a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?
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If Dracula can’t see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?
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Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery’s dead?
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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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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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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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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.
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I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out.
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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 at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
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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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The other night I was lying in bed, looking up at the stars, and I wondered, ‘Where the hell is my roof?
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I’m a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I’ll forget.
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When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child… eventually.
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If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented?
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Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
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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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Why isn’t the number 11 pronounced onety one?
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Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7 of your life.
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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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How come Superman could stop bullets with his chest, but always ducked when someone threw a gun at him?
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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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In my house there’s this light switch that doesn’t do anything. Every so often, I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Germany. She said ‘cut it out’
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I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
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I like to reminisce with people I don’t know.
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A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
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