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We should direct our skepticism toward those statements that appeal to us.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

We should want global warming.

Godfrey Tooke, Collected Aphorisms.

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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

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Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

“Do I? I say, do I? Do I care too much?”

Park V. Kessler, Nearly Music.

“Science, you say? Pah! I know what my old eyes have seen.”

Carson Drew, The Case of the Purloined Tiger.

In the bedroom closet, he finds that his well-worn oxfords now consist of two left shoes. He cannot fathom this perplexity. He cannot account for it. He seeks solace in the TV, by watching a 1940s film noir featuring Audrey Totter as an unhappy wife who, upon discovering that her favorite pair of heels has mysteriously become two right shoes, goes on a rampage (in flats), shoots her husband (six times), robs a small supermarket, and heads for the border in a stolen DeSoto.

Jason Starling, ed., Adventures in Narrative Parsimony.

Puns ‘n’ Poses

The Ruling Stains

The Bootles

Lewd Zeppelin

The Hoo-Hoo

Spruce Bringsteam

Velveeta Underground

Andrew Tertullian, Pandora’s Ponderous Puns.

Narcissism: pathological shallowness.

Callista Ralph, Alphabet Soup.

“I am neither listening nor glistening,” claimed Uncle Walter, in another of his baffling assertions.

Charles Jeffrey Yett, Writing in Miniature—Vol. Three.