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Bertha Venation Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 01:32 PM
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favorite one-liners
I used to go to a bar in Boston called the G-Spot. It closed because no one could find it.
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 01:33 PM
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1. Take My Wife, Please.
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nostamj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-07-04 01:35 PM
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2. I'd rather have a bottle in front of me
than a frontal labotomy.

was that Louden Wainwright? or Tom Waits?
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kevinam Donating Member (475 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-04 01:59 AM
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3. I have read it attributed to Tom Waits...
and I thought it went "better to have a bottle in front of you, than a front lobatomy". But you could be right. The other one I read attributed to him was "24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day, coincidence?? I think not"...Kevin.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-04 02:08 AM
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4. I bought my wife a chair for her birthday....
but they won't let me plug it in. - Henny Youngman
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Endangered Specie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-04 02:10 AM
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5. How do I know God is a Civil Engineer...
Well, in making humans, who else would have put a waste pipeline next to a recreation area?

(If you know me, Im an atheist, but its still a good joke)
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Archae Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-04 02:15 AM
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6. Dorothy Parker and Groucho Marx were undisputed masters
Of the one-liner.

Can you imagine what those two would be doing to Smirk? :-)
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Lexingtonian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-08-04 04:37 AM
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7. some Dorothy Parker

(on the phone) "I'm too fucking busy- and vice versa."

(on a passing starlet) "There's the good time that was had by all."

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