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“I’d like to stir her porridge, Lawson. I certainly would!”

Jonathan Steed, Down Under.

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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

Anna was going on about how her gutters were now “clog-free” for life. It seemed to be some sort—I don’t know really—some sort of contract. But I never could get her to specify exactly what it was.

Anselm Bligh, A Collection of Miniatures.

Sometimes I find that contemporary art is so slight that it isn’t fair to laugh at it.

Hill Boothby, Essays on Disappointment Management.

Almost everyone is not a philosopher.

Travis Hilliard, The Private Language.

When we are free to do whatever we want, we can’t seem to do anything that is interesting.

Logan Nygaard, A Treatise on Amusement.

It is difficult for people to care about what you think you are.

Dennis W. Sylvester, Confessions of a Moon Man.

Internet: a means to scrub sincerity from the face of the earth.

Nathaniel Bumppo, The Final Word.

We know these Rothko paintings are important because Nelson Rockefeller actually owned one. At least for a while.

Eugene Bavinger, The Turpentine Blues.