Subject: Things (Page 8)

Traffic Light: A little green light that changes to red as your car approaches.

Velcro: what a rip-off.

(1967 – ) English actor, writer & comedian

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me; I said, “Well, what do you need?”

(1955 – ) comedian, actor & writer

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

(1935 – ) columnist, journalist & novelist

If a deaf person swears, does his mother wash his hands with soap?

(1937 – 2008) stand-up comedian, social critic, actor & author

The better the four-wheel drive, the further away you'll be when you get stuck.

I used to buy lottery tickets every week until I realized you could watch it on TV for nothing.

(1972 – ) Anglo-Irish comedian, writer & actor

Driving a Porsche in London is like bringing a Ming vase to a football game.

(1952 – 2001) English writer, dramatist, & musician

My Dad always told me there’s three things you need to have in the boot of your car: a blanket, a shovel and a flask; and he’s right – because whenever I’ve killed a man I’m parched.

(1975 – ) English comedian

The snapshots you take of your husband are always more flattering than the ones he takes of you.

Any program will expand to fill available memory.

Communism doesn’t work because people like to own stuff.

(1940 – 1993) composer, guitarist, record producer & film director

Chatterbox: Another name for a telephone booth.

There are only two types of computers in the world: those that waste your precious time and those that waste your precious time faster.

If it’s good, they’ll stop making it.

(1909 – 2001) editorial cartoonist & author

Vacuum Cleaner: A sonic broom.

Everything I Know About Women I Learned From My Tractor

A bleeding heart can be hell on the carpeting.

David Gerrold (1944 – ) science fiction author

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who cannot sleep with window shut, and a woman who cannot sleep with the window open.

(1902 – 1971) American humorist & poet

A sieve may not hold water, but it will hold another sieve.

(1924 – 1987) American stand-up ‘deadpan’ comedian and actor

See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time.

(1951 – 2014) comedian & actor