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POINTS TO PONDER: The 16 Known Facts of Life . . .

Posted on 11/26/2002 12:33:12 PM PST by Liz

1. A .44 Magnum beats four aces.

2. Psychiatrists say that one of four people are mentally ill. Check three friends. If they're OK, you're it.

3. Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.

4. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.

5. It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.

6. Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn.

7. Given an open-book exam, you will forget your book; if a take-home test, you will forget where you live.

8. The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was.

9. It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.

10. Gresham's Law: You can't fall off the floor.

11. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.

12. Law of Probability Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.

13. A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell and make you feel happy to be on your way.

14. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

15. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.

16. Paranoids are people, too. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid, too.


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To: Revolting cat!
Or, the day after you make that big purchase the item goes on sale.
41 posted on 11/26/2002 2:46:19 PM PST by appeal2
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To: Liz
A couple of additions for the military-minded:

1) Tracers work both ways

2) Always remember that your weapon was made by the lowest bidder

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

42 posted on 11/26/2002 2:46:52 PM PST by wku man
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To: Paulus Invictus
Happened to me twice on my last trip and I don't even look like an Arab terrorist.

And therein lies your problem (in bold above!)

43 posted on 11/26/2002 2:48:57 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: Liz
He who laughs last most likely didn't get the joke.

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44 posted on 11/26/2002 2:51:58 PM PST by AgentEcho
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To: ofMagog
From the linked page: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.

The thing that scares me is: What if Osama bin Ladin just happens to be the first woodpecker which has come along in a very long time?

45 posted on 11/26/2002 2:52:32 PM PST by NathanR
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To: Liz
When shopping to prepare a food recipe you always forget to buy one of the key ingredients!

Whenever your Sunday newspaper is missing a section it's always the one that's most important to you.

46 posted on 11/26/2002 2:54:40 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: Liz
Here's another one I discovered last summer:

Whenever you take public transportation in a foreign city, you always end up going in the wrong direction first!

47 posted on 11/26/2002 2:56:55 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: NathanR
Having a wood pecker doesn't make one a woodpecker....
48 posted on 11/26/2002 2:57:53 PM PST by null and void
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To: Liz
Stupidity is a self-correcting problem, if left alone.
- Duke's Law
49 posted on 11/26/2002 3:02:05 PM PST by DugwayDuke
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To: Liz
You should have married that other guy/gal!
50 posted on 11/26/2002 3:02:08 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: Liz
There are two rules you must always remember:

1. Never tell everything you know.

51 posted on 11/26/2002 3:06:24 PM PST by forsnax5
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To: Liz
If you had been born 30 seconds later, or earlier, you would not have gotten into that traffic accident!
52 posted on 11/26/2002 3:06:45 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: Liz
Another secret of successful foreign travel:

Around the corner, there is always a moneychanging office or bank that offers a better exchange rate.

53 posted on 11/26/2002 3:16:50 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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To: Johnny Gage
Particularly if you're lugging skies, poles, boots, an overnighter, and a container of hot coffee.
54 posted on 11/26/2002 3:27:37 PM PST by Liz
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To: Liz
There are 10 kinds of people: Those who understand binary and those who do not.
55 posted on 11/26/2002 4:01:44 PM PST by GalvestonBeachcomber
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To: Liz
When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir
cevinpl.
56 posted on 11/26/2002 4:14:46 PM PST by IncPen
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To: Revolting cat!
40+ rolls of photographic film, you dummy!

The typos appear after you click "Post".

57 posted on 11/26/2002 4:24:04 PM PST by gitmo
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To: Liz
6. Always remember to pillage BEFORE you burn.

DOH! Now I know what's wrong with my life.

58 posted on 11/26/2002 4:25:05 PM PST by LibKill
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To: Liz
1) Never eat a resturant with a "HELP WANTED" sign in the window

2) Never play cards with a guy they call "Doc"

3)When the label says "DRY CLEAN ONLY"-- they weren't kidding.

4) Guys: Avoid any woman whose father still calls her "Princess".

Gals: Avoid any man who goes shopping with this mother.

59 posted on 11/26/2002 5:05:24 PM PST by yankeedame
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To: yankeedame
My lifelong maxim is to never eat in a restaurant where I've never eaten before.
60 posted on 11/26/2002 6:20:34 PM PST by Revolting cat!
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