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SilentAiche

SilentAiche

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Ceremony to Cure Illiteracy: The "can't write right rite"

Ceremony to Cure Aviation Pioneers' Illiteracy: the "why can't the Wrights write right rite?"

Percolate: "not making the coffee on time"

Party-giver Reminders: "Host-It Notes"

Sediment: "Speaking as a breath freshener...

detriment: "Anything that makes your breath worse...

Enjoy!

THanks,
Tim
 
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billabong, pay per puff pipe.

Hypnocrit, I had a good one for this last night, but I am blank this AM. What do you come up with?

MegaHertz, company formed by the merger of the 4 biggest auto rental companies.

Microsoft, largest manufacturer of computer bugs.



BocaBurger
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Found these :

Smile - A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

Rumor - News that travels faster than the speed of sound.

Dictionary - The only place where divorce comes before marriage.

College - A place where some pursue learning and others learn pursuing.

Ecstasy - A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feeling you have never felt before.

Office - A place where you can relax after your strenuous homelife.

Yawn - The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.

Committee - Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

Classic - A book which people praise, but do not read.

Marriage - It’s an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and woman gains her master degree.

Worry - Interest paid on trouble before it falls due.

Experience - The name men give to their mistakes.

Tears - The hydraulic force by which masculine power is defeated by feminine power.

Atom Bomb - An invention to end all inventions.

Philosopher - A fool who torments himself during life, to be spoken of when dead.

Diplomat - A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Optimist - A person who starts taking a bath if he accidentally falls into a river.

Pessimist - A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY.

Miser - A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.

Father - A banker provided by nature.

Criminal - A guy no different from the rest…except that he got caught.

Boss - Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.

Politician - One who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

Doctor - A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you with his bills.

Ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter = Eskimo Pi

2.4 statute miles of intravenous surgical tubing at Yale University Hospital = 1 I.V. League

2000 pounds of Chinese soup = Won Ton

1 millionth mouthwash = 1 microscope

Speed of a tortoise breaking the sound barrier = Mach Turtle

Time it takes to sail 220 yards at 1 nautical mile per hour = not-furlong

365.25 days of drinking low-calorie beer because it's less filling = 1 lite year

16.5 feet in the Twilight Zone = 1 Rod Sterling

1/2 large intestine = 1 semicolon

1000000 aches = 1 megahertz

Weight an evangelist carries with God = 1 billigram

Basic unit of laryngitis = 1 hoarsepower

Shortest distance between two jokes = a straight line

Time between slipping on a peel and smacking the pavement = 1 banananosecond

1/2 bath = 1 demijohn

453.6 graham crackers = 1 pound cake

Given the old adage "a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single
step", the first step of a one-mile journey = 1 Milwaukee

Useful Metric Conversions:
1 million microphones = 1 megaphone

1 million bicycles = 2 megacycles

365.25 days = 1 Unicycle

500 millionaries = 1 seminary

2000 mockingbirds = two kilomockingbirds

10 cards = 1 decacards

1 kilogram of falling figs = 1 Fig Newton

1000 grams of wet socks = 1 Liter Hosen

1 millionth of a fish = 1 microfiche

1 trillion pins = 1 terrapin

1 million billion picolos = 1 gigolo

10 rations = 1 decoration

100 rations = 1 C-ration

Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.

Beauty Parlor: A place where women curl up and dye.

Cannibal: Someone who is fed up with people.

Committee: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.

Dust: Freeze dried mud.

Egotist: Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.

Gossip: A person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage.

Handkerchief: Cold Storage.

Inflation: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.

Mosquito: An insect that makes you like flies better.

Raison: Grape for the ages.

Secret: Something you tell to one person at a time.

Skeleton: A bunch of bones with the person scraped off.

Toothache: The pain that drives you to extraction.

Tomorrow: One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.

Yawn: An honest opinion openly expressed.



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Related: arrived at work at 8:15, again. (Opposite of showing uh, pearly)

Saber: type of s-word (BocaBurger's sig inspired this one)

Fencing: selling stolen sabers?

Wick's: cafe featured in "Casabwanca"

Tim
 
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Sig comes from 40 years of kenjutsu practice. I just can't draw a good ASCII katana.

One of the funniest lines I ever heard from Bill Dana:
"I teach Hooish to the Jeebrew peoples"



BocaBurger
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lo mein: dieter entree.

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Try forum1391 for lively discussions
 
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moo goo gai pan: recipe for men (ground beef with okra in a skillet).

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Try forum1391 for lively discussions
 
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If home page updates are required, would you call it oblogitory?

Why do rap stars seem to consider flashy jewelry oblingatory?

Are active jail sentences for British military officers considered obrigatory?
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Tim
 
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Some more crazy measures ...

Ten alternative colours = 1 decor
1 in 10 chance of getting a girlfriend = 1 decimate
10 monarchs= 1 decking
1000 visitis to the bathroom = 1 millipede

 
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Not knowing whether you should tie up your boat at the left pier or the right one?
Code: 
[white]A paradox, of course![/white]


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard. [dragon]
 
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and the pounding of the waves, of course, is considered
Code: 
[white]pier pressure[/white]


Tim
 
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Be careful of the dock side of the force.


BocaBurger
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donbott said:
reintarnation: the belief that when you die you will come back as Gabby Hayes
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Damn, I didn't think anyone remembered Gabby Hayes anymore. I actually laughed aloud at that, donbott. Thanks.

-Mr3Putt
 
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Discuit: The snacks that you feed to your computer
Windows: A computer virus that makes a PC run slow and clogs the storage device
Boot: What you use to kick your computer with when it doesn't power up
Hardware: The parts that scatter on the pavement when you throw your computer out the window
Point-and-click: What you do when using a .45 caliber pistol to threaten your computer if it doesn't work again this time.
 
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Phillips screwdriver: Vodka with Milk of Magnesia.

Me transmitte sursum, Caledoni!

 
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[blue]legerdemain[/blue]: journal of your favorite magic trick websites.

Tim
 
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RCorrigan, I couldn't believe that your excellent list didn't already have a boat-load of Purple Stars. So here's to you and your list !

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