Random Thoughts

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If I'm already "pre-approved", why do I have to fill out an application?

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Carter may have pardoned the draft dodgers, but I haven't.

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"And if everyone else wanted to jump off a cliff, would you want to do it too?" is the stereotypical mother saying. With my mother it was more like, "Everyone else your age wants to jump off a cliff. Why don't you want to jump off a cliff? What's wrong with you?"

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Shouldn't knockoffs of Dockers pants be called Knockers?

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"You can't argue with results." Unless, of course, you are a Catholic theologian, in which case the results don't much matter if the intention or the method of achieving the results was bad.

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A great bumpersticker would be "What have YOU done for Western civilization today?"

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Every little girl should be told by her parents at least once that she's pretty, whether it is, strictly speaking, true or not.

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We still use a traditional nurse's cap and white uniform when we want to convey the idea of "nurse" in a cartoony drawing or a Halloween costume, but most nurses haven't dressed like that for twenty years; regular cap use was on the wane even earlier. Soon we will have young people who do not understand why we have this convention of depicting nurses that way; maybe we do already.

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In the whole of the history of English language usage, I don't think anyone has ever said, "I hope you're happy with yourself!" and meant it.

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