Subject: Things (Page 24)

Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot,
 then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

If you play with anything long enough, it will break.

Upgraded and Improved: Didn't work the second time.

I put a new engine in my car, but didn’t take the old one out and now my car goes 500 miles an hour.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on me?

comedian, commentator, radio host, reporter & writer

If you can’t navigate a one-level, five-item phone tree, you didn’t need a computer anyway.

A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.

(1912 – 2010) Canadian-born American radio & television personality & humorist

Never buy a car you can’t push.

Bought an ant farm the other day… them fellas didn’t grow shit.

(1968 – 2005) American stand-up comedian

Antiques: Furniture that is too old for poor folks but the right age for rich people.

How can I believe in God when only last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

A falling nozzle will turn toward you and land on its trigger.

Window Screen: A device for keeping flies in the house.

You ever get a new cell phone and you're too lazy to transfer all the numbers over, so you just stop being friends with a bunch of people?

stand-up comedian, writer & actor

Good parking places are always on the other side of the street.

Everything put together sooner or later falls apart.

When two airplanes almost collide why do they call it a near miss? … It sounds like a near hit to me!

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

The walls are covered with see-through wallpaper.

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Car Pool: Complicated system of transportation where Mom always winds up going the furthest with the biggest bunch of kids who have had the most sugar.

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don’t need to have.

(1928 – 1987) painter, printmaker & filmmaker