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Bits of wit and whimsy
06-18-2007, 03:57 PM
I'll start:
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer... that way, you've got them surrounded.
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Re: Bits of wit and whimsy
06-18-2007, 04:04 PM
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Re: Bits of wit and whimsy
06-18-2007, 04:22 PM
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Re: Bits of wit and whimsy
06-18-2007, 04:48 PM
An oldie, but goody:
I would much rather die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, than awake and screaming, like his passengers.Ebony the Black Dragon
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Re: Bits of wit and whimsy
06-18-2007, 05:19 PM
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06-18-2007, 05:29 PM
The only difference between a martyr and a messiah is getting caught
I briefly considered going on a moral crusade, but there hasn't been a moral crusade since the dawn of religion, they've all been organized by bloody, self-serving hypocrites and I don't want to buck the trend.
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Re: Bits of wit and whimsy
06-18-2007, 06:05 PM
Quote: I simply post The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
Well, if you're going to bring up that annoying fucker, I must retaliate by directing you to the wisdom of Solomon Short.Ebony the Black Dragon
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Re: Bits of wit and whimsy
06-18-2007, 06:49 PM
Being an Egyptologist necrophile means putting your mummy where your mouth is.
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Bob! Eww!
06-18-2007, 07:33 PM
MILF! Mummy I'd Like to...ewwww!
(polite applause, that was aparticularly good one Bob.)
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Re: Bob! Eww!
06-18-2007, 11:38 PM
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Re: Bits of wit and whimsy
06-19-2007, 12:05 AM
Quote: I would much rather die peacefully in my sleep, like my grandfather, than awake and screaming, like his passengers.
While I had always said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
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Re: Bits of wit and whimsy
06-19-2007, 01:24 AM
A "sane" response to witnessing the arrival of the Doctor, or any other travelling do-gooder:
Cogito, ergo curro - I think, therefore I scram.--
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Re: Bits of wit and whimsy
06-19-2007, 03:08 AM
Quote: While I had always said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
Nick van Rijn's version: "At the age of a hundred and fifty, I plan to be shot by an outraged husband."
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Re: Bits of wit and whimsy
06-19-2007, 04:21 PM
Quote: Nick van Rijn's version: "At the age of a hundred and fifty, I plan to be shot by an outraged husband."
David Gerrold's varies, but usually runs along the lines of: "I always imagined myself dying in bed, preferably due to the ministrations of a redheaded nymphomaniac."Ebony the Black Dragon
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Re: Bits of wit and whimsy
06-20-2007, 12:46 AM
Those sound somewhat more fun than Spider Robinson's version:
"A man should live forever or die trying."
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Re: Bits of wit and whimsy
06-27-2007, 01:55 AM
"The problem with political jokes is they get elected." - Henry Cate VII
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I bet that if you cooked an elephant, you'd have a lot of leftovers.
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