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Truth Can Be Funny

Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 7 months ago to Humor
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I thought it might be a good idea to lighten up the conversations a bit, so I've put down a few humorous slants on everyday topics.

The First Rule Of Grammar: a double negative is a no-no.

Modern art is when you buy a picture to cover a hole in the wall and then decide the hole looked better.

The trouble with experience being a teacher is that it gives the test before explaining the lesson.

Monday is an unsatisfactory way to spend one sevenths of your life.

Something to put on the endangered species list: An honest politician.

The more effective the prescription, the more horrendous the side effects.

According to the latest poll, most people don't believe in polls.

An example of opposite meanings: Progress and Congress.

Herbie's Inevitability Prediction: If you live each day as if it were your last - one of these days you'll be right.

And finally, the true moral behind the Cinderella story: People who wear glass slippers shouldn't tap dance.


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  • Posted by 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Finagle is a real word. In the Jewish lexicon. It means to twist or maneuver something until it comes out the way you want it to. It is related to "tweak" only less respectable.
    Astounding Science Fiction. What memories I have of that wonderful periodical.
    Thanks for the memory..
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  • Posted by dnr 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    These are a lot of fun and even make sense (for me in this "truth" cult). Watch out Lazarus Long.
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  • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    ... Pretty much the last time I used that phrase (I hate to be a wet blanket, but...) with a very good friend of mine... he simply replied...

    Then don't.
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  • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I was reading Astounding Sci-Fi in the 50's and 60's and collected most of the Finagle Laws in a folder when I was in high school.

    It led me, decades later, to compile http://www.plusaf.com/falklaws.htm ... my observations of the world around me.

    Enjoy!
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    the bushes are about30 feet from the front porch,
    so I don't tend to scare 'em away ... lovely critters! -- j
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  • Posted by 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    By the time I hobble over, get the camera, and make it to where the creature was, it would be gone.
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  • Posted by dnr 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Finagle's Law of Dynamic Negatives is usually rendered: Anything that can go wrong, will—at the worst possible moment. The term "Finagle's Law" was first used by John W. Campbell, Jr., the influential editor of Astounding Science Fiction. He used it frequently in his editorials for many years in the 1940s to 1960s but it never came into general usage the way Murphy's Law has. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finagle...
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  • Posted by $ jdg 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Indeed, my #1 litmus test for idiocy is whether the person made fun of Donald Rumsfeld for stating this useful fact.
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Goes along with "One must know what one knows, and what one does not know." This is a big problem I see every day.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    we have butterfly bushes out front, and I love to take
    the camera out there for a zoom-and-shoot visit! -- j
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  • Posted by 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Your as welcome as the Monarch Butterfly I just spotted outside my window. (Love my wife's flower garden)
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  • Posted by 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Just for that, here's one more:
    Success is doing what you do best, and letting others do everything else.
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  • Posted by BradA 9 years, 7 months ago
    An honest politician is better characterized as a mythical creature.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 9 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    yes, if I'd known that I was going to live this long,
    I would have taken more risks! -- j
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