Consider the daffodil. And while you're doing that, I'll be over here, looking through your
stuff.
I bet the sparrow looks at the parrot and thinks, yes, you can talk, but LISTEN TO YOURSELF!
I bet a funny thing about driving a car off a cliff is, while you're in midair, you still hit
those brakes! Hey, better try the emergency brake!
Many people never stop to realize that a tree is a living thing, not that different from a tall,
leafy dog that has roots and is very quiet.
When I found the skull in the woods, the first thing I did was call the police. But then I got
curious about it. I picked it up, and started wondering who this person was, and why he
had deer horns.
I bet it's hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like "Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in
the cellar."
Blow ye winds, Like the trumpet blows; But without that noise.
Of all the tall tales, I think my favorite is the one about Eli Whitney and the interchangeable
parts.
Laugh, clown, laugh. This is what I tell myself whenever I dress up like Bozo.
Any man, in the right situation, is capable of murder. But not any man is capable of being a
good camper. So, murder and camping are not as similar as you might think.
As the snow started to fall, he tugged his coat tighter around himself. Too tight, as it turned
out. "This is the fourth coat crushing this year", said the sergeant as he outlined the
body with a special pencil that writes on snow.
One thing vampire children have to be taught early on is, don't run with a wooden stake.
Too bad Lassie didn't know how to ice skate, because then if she was in Holland on vacation in
winter and someone said "Lassie, go skate for help," she could do it.
As the light changed from red to green to yellow and back to red again, I sat there thinking
about life. Was it nothing more than a bunch of honking and yelling? Sometimes it
seemed that way.
I hope some animal never bores a hole in my head and lays its eggs in my brain, because later
you might think you're having a good idea but it's just eggs hatching.
What is it about a beautiful sunny afternoon, with the birds singing and the wind rustling
through the leaves, that makes you want to get drunk?
And after you're real drunk, maybe go down to the public park and stagger around and ask people
for money, and then lay down and go to sleep.
Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball machine,
because with all that rocking back and forth you'd probably be able to get a lot of
free games.
I'd like to be buried Indian-style, where they put you up on a high rack, above the ground.
That way, you could get hit by meteorites and not even feel it.
If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a
soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look.
He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started
laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of
justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun
of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.
Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?
What hair colour do they put on the driver's licenses of bald men?
Why do banks charge you an "insufficient funds fee" on money they already know you don't
have?
Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not adoor?
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.
Why is lemon juice mostly artificial ingredients but dishwashing liquid contains real lemons?
Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle?
Why do they lock petrol station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?
Why don't sheep shrink when it rains?
Why do they put Braille on the drive-through bank machines?
How do blind people know when they are done "wiping?"
If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do the rest drown too?
If you ate pasta and antipasta, would you still be hungry?
Should crematoriums give discounts for burn victims?
If a mute swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?
A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.
Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
Put on your seatbelt..... I wanna try something.
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
Chocolate: the OTHER major food group.
Death is hereditary.
I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out.
Multitasking - screwing up several things at once.
Arachibutyrophobia : fear of peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth.
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit
each other.
As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very pleasurable -
until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!
Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached
to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.
Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself down. I'll go over
to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the person comes to the door, I'm
gone, but you know what I've left on the porch? A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in
the side of it's head with a note that says "You." After that I usually feel a lot
better, and no harm done.
If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll look like a dummy
and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.
Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the
tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling
and eating everything they see.
As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch
for Pretty Rocks." I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway
department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple
letter! And I thought I was lazy!
I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a
shot at him and not feel too bad.
As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I thought back to the
salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and how I named him Flint.
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But
then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so
funny.
If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and you friends are all watching you
fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were swimming.
When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his
cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us. It wasn't until later that I
found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.
The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw.
Even though I was their captive, the Indians allowed me quite a bit of freedom. I could walk
freely, make my own meals, and even hurl large rocks at their heads. It was only later
that I discovered that they were not Indians at all but only dirty-clothes hampers.
I wish outer space guys would conquer the Earth and make people their pets, because I'd like to
have one of those little beds with my name on it.
The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on
my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more
meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside
the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?
If you're a Thanksgiving dinner, but you don't like the stuffing or the cranberry sauce or
anything else, just pretend like you're eating it, but instead, put it all in your
lap and form it into a big mushy ball. Then, later, when you're out back having
cigars with the boys, let out a big fake cough and throw the ball to the ground.
Then say, "Boy, these are good cigars!"
Today I accidentally stepped on a snail on the sidewalk in front of our house. And thought, I
too am like that snail. I build a defensive wall around myself, a "shell" if you will.
But my shell isn't made out of a hard, protective substance. Mine is made out of
tinfoil and paper bags.
You can't tell me that cowboys, when they're branding cattle, don't sort of "accidentally"
brand each other every once in a while. It's their way of letting off stress.
One day one of my little nephews came up to me and asked me if the equator was a real line that
went around the Earth, or just an imaginary one. I had to laugh. Laugh and laugh.
Because I didn't know, and I thought that maybe by laughing he would forget what he
asked me.
When you first start wearing a turban, probably the most common mistake is wrapping it too
tight. You have to allow the head to breathe.
If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys
come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy,
I don't know what to tell you.
If your friend is already dead, and being eaten by vultures, I think it's okay to feed some
bits of your friend to one of the vultures, to teach him to do some tricks. But ONLY if
you're serious about adopting the vulture.
If I ever become a mummy, I'm going to have it so when somebody opens my lid, a boxing glove on
a spring shoots out.
Many people do not realize that the snowshoe can be used for a great many things besides
walking on snow. For instance, it can be used to carry pancakes from the stove to the
breakfast table. Also, it can be used to carry uneaten pancakes from the table to the
garbage. Finally, it can be used as a kind of stainer, where you force pancakes through
the strings to see if a piece of gold got in a pancake somehow.
One thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit
in a warehouse.
You know how to paint a room real fast? Just put paint rollers on your feet and somehow figure
out how to skate up the walls and across the ceiling.
I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that
tied-up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started
yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run
for help. Who was that guy?! Oh, well, never saw HIM again.As I stood there looking at
the beautiful waterfall, I wondered how many other people had stood there, and how
many had candy corn "teeth" sticking out between their lips like I did.
For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier...I put them in the same room and let
them fight it out...
For a while I didn't have a car...I had a helicopter...no place to park it, so I just tied it
to a lamp post and left it running...
I collect rare photographs... I have two... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car... the
other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child.
ON ADS IN BILLS: Have you ever noticed that they put advertisements in with your bills now?
Like bills aren't distasteful enough, they have to stuff junk mail in there with them!
I get back at them. I put garbage in with my check when I mail it in. Coffee grinds,
banana peels...I write, "Could you throw this away for me? Thank you." I think this
is a great idea!
At first I thought, if I were Superman, a perfect secret identity would be "Clark Kent,
Dentist," because you could save money on tooth X-rays. But then I thought, if a
patient said, "How's my back tooth?" and you just looked at it with your X-ray vision
and said, "Oh it's okay," then the patient would probably say, "Aren't you going to
take an X-ray, stupid?" and you'd say, "Aw fuck you, get outta here," and then he
probably wouldn't even pay his bill.
Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for "better treatment"? I'd ask for a pinball
machine, because with all that rocking back and forth you'd probably be able to get a
lot of free games.
I bet when the neanderthal kids would make a snowman, someone would always end up saying,
"Don't forget the thick, heavy brows." Then they would all get embarrassed because
they remembered they had the big hunky brows too, and they'd get mad and eat the
snowman.
Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak
everybody out.
Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind".
Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind". What do these words
mean ? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they don't want anybody
walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when somebody comes up, act like
they just woke up and go, "What was THAT?!"
The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free. To make someone
run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's throwing up, is not what I call
hospitality.
To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started
and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed
my dad.
Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her dinner tasted
like.
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh.
But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem
quite so funny.
If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really
throw you into a panic.
If you're in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small
pumpkins. Maybe it'll make everyone think how stupid war is, and while they are
thinking, you can throw a real grenade at them.
Many people think that history is a dull subject. Dull? Is it "dull" that Jesse James once
got bitten on the forehead by an ant, and at first it didn't seem like anything,
but then the bite got worse and worse, so he went to a doctor in town, and the
secretary told him to wait, so he sat down and waited, and waited, and waited, and
waited, and then finally he got to see the doctor, and the doctor put some salve
on it? You call that dull?
To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around.
That way, if anybody says, "Hey, can you give me a hand?," you can say, "Sorry, got
these sacks."
If you're a cowboy, and you're dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you
mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine.
Why do the caterpillar and the ant have to be enemies? One eats leaves, and the other eats
caterpillars. Oh, I see now.
Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before.
But the ride always ends, and you end up feeling lonely and bitter. Wait. It's not love
I'm describing. I'm thinking of a monorail.
When this girl at the art museum asked me whom I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, "I like
mayonnaise." She just stared at me, so I said it again, louder. Then she left. I
guess she went to try to find some mayonnaise for me.
Instead of studying for finals, what about just going to the Bahamas and catching some rays?
Maybe you'll flunk, but you might have flunked anyway; that's my point.
You know something that would really make me applaud? A guy gets stuck in quicksand, then
sinks, then suddenly comes shooting out, riding on water skis! How do they do that?!
I'd like to see a nature film where an eagle swoops down and pulls a fish out of a lake, and
then maybe he's flying along, low to the ground, and the fish pulls a worm out of the
ground. Now that's a documentary!
Instead of a trap door, what about a trap window? The guy looks out it, and if he leans too
far, he falls out. Wait. I guess that's like a regular window.
Like jewels in a crown, the precious stones glittered in the queen's round metal hat.
I wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, yahoo!, I'd have all my
money back.
If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let 'em go, because, man,
they're gone.
How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers
than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak.
