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Instead of “yes”, ask the following:
“If you nail a chicken’s foot to the floor, does its shit make a circle?”
And she’s knows this how…. from her childhood years growing up in Calaveras county?
Someone get the ASPCA on the line.
That shit don’t flush. (the Obama campaign in a nutshell)
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His lies are comin’ like a cow pissing on a flat rock.
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That boy’s weltschmertz could drown a momma possum and all her baby possums.
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In the land of the blind the one eyed man can be chewed to death by guide dogs.
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You gotta grab the bull by the balls, make it turn its head and cough
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Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle ?
Does the pope shit in the woods?
Is a bear Catholic?
And I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m in an incredibly shitty mood this week.
aw Rob, did your grandmother die too? and then your spouse is gone for two weeks with the Guard?? so yeah, crappy mood here this week too.
I busted my ankle.
ouch, SarahW, how did you do that?
A really fat carnitas burrito gave be heart burn..
I watched Contessa Brewer on MSNBC for 5 minutes because the batteries in my remote went dead, and I couldn’t find replacements immeidately!
Nothing that bad, maggie, sorry to sound like a drama queen. Just a generalized “fuck the world and all who are in it” mood.
That’s pretty much situation normal at casa cranky-d. Unless I’ve been hitting the Irish whiskey; then I feel better about things.
not at all, Rob. I think I’d probably be in a trough about now anyway, it’s just now I seem to have excuses. yay!
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation
-W.C. Fields
In a restaurant to a waitress: “Do you have frogs legs or do you always walk like that…
-Groucho Marx
Hillary also said once,”If you find a turtle sittin’ on a fence post, you know it didn’t get there all by itself.” Sorry, but I forget the context. Maybe someone here can provide it, fictional or otherwise.
Also, here’s an obscure punch-line: “Frog with zero legs can’t hear.”
Bill put it there because it brought the turtle up to just below waist high.
BJ sounds like he ate Dan Rather.
Old Italian proverb:
“When you live amongst cripples, you’ll soon develop a limp”
Robert Benchley leaves a building in New York and addresses a uniformed man who believes is the doorman:
RB: “Get me a cab.”
Man: “I’m an admiral in the US Navy.”
RB: “In that case, get me a battleship.”
If you wanna make squirrel brain gravy,you gotta crack a few skulls.
I thought squirrel brains were more a mix-with-scrambled-eggs thing.
*snerk*
Naw, that’s cows.
They don’t climb trees, as a general rule. Not as fuzzy, tail-wise, either.
Dang city-boys.
If you run head-first into a tree while chasing a squirrel, then you are either drunk or dumber than a labrador retreiver.
(N.B.: our lab-mix got four feet up the tree before the traction and velocity gave out.)
Did Rose Kennedy own a black dress?