Subject: Miscellaneous (Page 11)

I think it should be a law that if you ever get sucked up into a tornado, whatever you can grab with your hands while you’re swirling around up there, you get to keep.

Watermelon talk

Going to hell in a handbasket

You’ve got the saw by the wrong tree.

Too Fat Polka

It was so good it would have brought tears to a glass eye.

He ain't got no home trainin.

Didn’t lick it off a stone

The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.

(1899 – 1995) humorist

Leader Of The Laundromat

No News, Or What Killed The Dog

He won’t hit a lick at a snake.

Pore mouthin’

Road Humps

My poor fellow, why not carry a watch.

(1852 – 1917) English actor & theater manager

To put the spit on the apple.

Why are they called apartments when they’re all stuck together?

(1946 – ) American comedian

Like Claude Harris’ mule

I’m so poor that if it cost a nickle to go around the world, I couldn’t get out of sight.

I bet a funny thing about driving a car off a cliff is, while you’re in midair, you still hit those brakes.

I bet it’s hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like “Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in the cellar.”