Posted on 03/01/2019 6:26:36 AM PST by sodpoodle
Thanks for the memory!
For us "older folks" to enjoy.
The younger ones will go "Phyllis Who?"
Phyllis Dillerisms...
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. -Phyllis Diller
Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? -Phyllis Diller
Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing up is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing. -Phyllis Diller
The reason women don't play football is because 11 of them would never wear the same outfit in public. -Phyllis Diller
Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out. -Phyllis Diller
A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once. -Phyllis Diller
I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them. -Phyllis Diller
Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going. -Phyllis Diller
Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed. -Phyllis Diller
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up. -Phyllis Diller
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room. -Phyllis Diller
What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day. -Phyllis Diller
The only time I ever enjoyed ironing was the day I accidentally got gin in the steam iron. -Phyllis Diller
His finest hour lasted a minute and a half. -Phyllis Diller
Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves. -Phyllis Diller
My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me. -Phyllis Diller
I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away. -Phyllis Diller
Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children. -Phyllis Diller
I asked the waiter, 'Is this milk fresh?' He said, 'Lady, three hours ago it was grass.' -Phyllis Diller
The reason the golf pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing. -Phyllis Diller
You know you're old if they have discontinued your blood type. -Phyllis Diller
She's the source of that joke I've used a few times around here. And thank goodness for more than 2.5 million threads -- security by obscurity.
"Two Irishmen walk out of a bar."
"Hey, it could happen."
Funny, I just read the current Smithsonian magazine yesterday. The caption under the picture of index card filing drawers is “After Diller donated this file of 52,569 jokes, the Smithsonian asked for volunteers to type them for digital access. The project was done in three weeks.”
So I presume you could give us this many once a day for a few years!
Jerry G. Bishop on WFLD Channel 32 Chicago, early 70s with Phyllis impersonator.
I remember her on the Dean Martin roast of Lucille Ball...
“She wants to change her hair back to its original color, but she can’t remember.”
“I became a stand-up comedienne because I had a sit-down husband.”
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