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Dave Barry

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"Puns are little plays on words that a certain breed of person loves to spring on you and then look at you in a certain self-satisfied way to indicate that he thinks that you must think that he is by far the cleverest person on Earth now that Benjamin Franklin is dead." Dave Barry 4.8 avg (8 votes)
"People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them." Dave Barry 4.9 avg (15 votes)
"Over the next hundred years or so football saw a great many major innovations and refinements that are too boring to even think about. Along the way professional football came into being so that the largest and most violent college players would have a way to earn money other than simply demanding it from innocent civilians." Dave Barry 5.0 avg (4 votes)
"Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." Dave Barry 5.0 avg (6 votes)
"On the Japanese news, if the announcers had happy faces and perky voices, I knew that meant good news, such as that Japanese scientists had discovered a way to make VCR's even more difficult for Americans to program; whereas if the announcers had serious voices and frowny faces, it meant bad news, such as the worsening eel shortage." Dave Barry 4.5 avg (2 votes)
"Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer." Dave Barry 4.2 avg (5 votes)
"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance." Dancing, Dave Barry 4.0 avg (5 votes)
"My therapist told me the way to achieve true inner peace is to finish what I start. So far today, I have finished 2 bags of M&M's and a chocolate cake. I feel better already." Dave Barry 4.4 avg (7 votes)
"My mother used to say to me: "Son, it's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick." I think that still makes a heck of a lot of sense, even in these troubles times." Dave Barry 3.5 avg (6 votes)
"MEGAHERTZ: This is a really, really big hertz." Dave Barry 4.3 avg (3 votes)
"Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate." Dave Barry 4.9 avg (14 votes)
"Males have a lot of trouble not looking at breasts. What is worse, males cannot look at breasts and think at the same time. In fact, scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid. This was proved in a famous 1978 laboratory experiment wherein a team of leading male psychological researchers at Yale deliberately looked at photographs of breasts every day for two years, at the end of which they concluded that they had failed to take any notes. "We forgot," they said. "We'll have to do it over."" Dave Barry 4.9 avg (10 votes)
"Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators." Dave Barry 4.7 avg (3 votes)
"Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers." Dave Barry 4.8 avg (5 votes)
"Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art." Dave Barry 4.7 avg (3 votes)
"Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it." Dave Barry 4.6 avg (5 votes)
"Karate is a form of marital arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world." Dave Barry 4.2 avg (12 votes)
"I'm a middle age white guy, which means I'm constantly reminded that my particular group is responsible for the oppression of every known minority PLUS most wars PLUS government corruption PLUS pollution of the environment, not to mention that it was middle-age white guys who killed Bambi's mom." Dave Barry 4.3 avg (10 votes)
"It is never okay to throw away veteran underwear. A real guy checks the garbage regularly in case somebody - and we are not naming names but this would be his wife - is quietly trying to discard his underwear, which she is frankly jealous of, because the guy seems to have a more intimate relationship with it than with her." Dave Barry 4.0 avg (4 votes)
"It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million guy sperm cells, each one wriggling in its own direction, totally confident it knows where it is going, to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin." Dave Barry 4.6 avg (11 votes)


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