"I love you" said Tom, wholeheartedly. "I'll have another reuben sandwich" Tom said wryly. "I just spent 3 hours under a bus after it backed over me!" Tom said looking tired and feeling exhausted. "These Martians are undercooked and taste terrible!!!" screamed Tom, alienating himself again. "I think I just met the biggest idiot in the world" said Tom looking dumbfounded. "Oh, come now!" Tom ejaculated. __________________________________________________________ I never have trouble remembering what class level I am teaching. I know as soon as I walk into the lecture hall, and say, "Good morning!" If the class is made up of freshmen, they respectfully murmur, "Good morning, Professor." If they are upperclass, they make a great show of finishing their coffee, slowly folding their newspapers, and opening their books. But if I say, "Good morning!" to grad students, they write it down! _______________________________________________________ Then there is always Legalize Pot which someone turned into Legalize Potatoes and underneath Legalize Division by zero __________________________________________________________ Q: How many existentialists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Two. One to screw it in and one to observe how the lightbulb itself symbolizes a single incandescent beacon of subjective reality in a netherworld of endless absurdity reaching out toward a maudlin cosmos of nothingness. Q: How many Journalists does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: Three. One to report it as an inspired Government program to bring light to the people, one to report it as a diabolical government plot to deprive the poor of darkness, and one to win a pulitzer prize for reporting that the Electric Company hired a lightbulb assassin to break the bulb in the first place. Q: How many heterosexual males does it take to screw a lightbulb in San Francisco? A: Both of them. ___________________________________________________________________ "Common sense is the most evenly distributed quantity in the world. Everyone thinks he has enough." Descartes, 1637 ______________________ Fanatic: Someone who, having lost site of his goal, re-doubles his efforts. "If you can't get your work done in a 24-hour day, then work nights!" Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper. People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves. ______________________ What it would mean if it already didn't: concrete - to swindle a resident of Crete rebuttal - the procedure used to affix new hindquarters implementation - a sorrowful statement by a very small person bucket - alternate nomenclature for female deer horticulture - a `lady of the night' en route to an opera terrace - To leave hurriedly armadillo - to provide weapons to a spanish pickle propagate - to hold open an passage through a fence, as with a stick. counterpart - subassemblies or pieces of an article of kitchen furniture modem - what people of a particular ethnic group say when they want a second helping of black-eyed peas. telephony - to identify an imposter zebra - an item of ladies underwear purchased by Dolly Parton concourse - a golf course located in a penitentiary information - how the Blue Angels fly federation - having given a ration of food to someone instable - where horses sleep gruesome - what farmer Brown did to corn last year graven - a very serious `n' founder - what the police did to a lost female pursuant - what aunt sue said paradox - a brace of physicians boycott - a bed for a young male person encrypt - where Egyptian kings are buried ______________________ Creativity is no substitute for knowing what you're doing. ______________________ Johnnie was a chemist, A chemist he is no more. For what he thought was H2O Was H2SO4. (H2SO4 _ sulfuric acid) ______________________ There was a pediatrician, who shall remain nameless, who, though he was a good doctor, was heartily disliked by all his young patients because in an effort to entertain them he performed boring magic tricks. One day, a sharp kid got an idea for getting rid of the jerk. As Dr. X was doing his tricks, the kid said -If you're such a good magician, let's see you turn yourself into an apple.- The doctor complied, and quick as a wink, the brat took & shoved the apple into a box & taped the lid shut. And the children were jubilant because they figured they had him out of their way. Then someone had a troubling thought. -How do we know he's still really in there?- he asked. -That's easy- said the kid, -Just weigh the box. If it weighs less, it means he's escaped.- So that was what they did. A weigh a day keeps the doctor an apple.