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August 8, 2006 at 9:44pm
August 8, 2006 at 9:44pm
#446601
The Fond du Lac "Millionaire Mile" has struck again. Those of you who have read some of the items in my port know that I hail from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. This is a rather sleepy city of forty thousand or so.

Ever since the Powerball lottery was started, Fond du Lac has become something of a Mecca for Powerball players. Tickets for at least four or five of the largest jackpots ever have been purchased in a one-mile stretch of Main Street in Fondy. Last week it happened again!!!! The winning ticket for a two hundred five million dollar jackpot was sold at Ma and Pa's grocery store at 13th and Main Streets. This is the second winning ticket for the big bonanza to come from that establishment alone.

People are driving distances to buy lottery tickets in Fond du Lac, thinking that something weird is happening there. Maybe they're right.*Delight*
August 6, 2006 at 4:23pm
August 6, 2006 at 4:23pm
#446026
Pancakes or palacsinta as they are known in Hungary, have a long history but claim no one national origin. Their variety ranges from the rough and ready flapjack or griddlecake, the typical breakfast favorite, to the fancy French dessert or crepe Suzette served with flaming sauce.

The Hungarian version is a favorite in nearly every household there. The word is pronounced
pa.la.cheen'ta. Varieties abound and they are served for dinner or supper but never for breakfast. They are welcomed as the main dish, entree, or dessert of rare excellence. Grandma Mahler often fixed these delicate pancakes as a wrap with filling of cottage cheese, walnuts, and jam, or she baked them in a casserole.

It is easy to quickly mix the batter. It will be no thicker than sweet heavy cream, and the baked palacsinta will be wafer-thin. The palacsinta is not browned but remains transparent and golden. A few pointers:
1. Heat a bevel-edged skillet. When a few drops of water will dance on it, the skillet is hot enough. Grease it with 1/4 teaspoon unsalted butter before each pancake.
2. For an 8-inch pancake, dip 1/4 cup of batter onto the hot greased skillet. With a quick rotary motion, tip the skillet to spread the batter thinly. The baked palacsinta should be very thin. Non stick pans work well for this task.
3. Brown the palacsinta only very lightly. During the first browning, it will become firm enough to be easily turned. When the second side is tinged brown, ease the cake onto a warm platter. Grandma Mahler stacked the finished cakes and allowed us to each fill our own as we wished.

{c}Grandma's Palacsinta
2 cups sifted flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
4 eggs
1 tablespoon sugar
3 cups milk

Combine flour, salt, eggs, and 1 cup milk, stirring until smooth. Gradually stir in the rest of the milk to make a thin batter the consistency of heavy sweet cream. Allow the batter to rest for an hour or so before making the cakes.

Grandma served these pancakes with an assortment of filling options. One was dry cottage cheese moistened with a bit or sour cream. Another bowl offered very finely ground walnuts mixed with a bit of sugar. Apricot or raspberry jams were always on hand and some liked to add raisins. Each diner would take a pancake, spread his own preferred combination of fillings on the cake, then roll it into a log and enjoy.

Palacsinta can be made into a ham casserole. Make a ham filling as follows:
1 lb chopped boiled ham
2 egg yolks
1 cup sour cream

Combine. Place a freshly baked pancake in a buttered baking dish. Spread with 1 teasp of filling and repeat until you have many layers. Top with a cake and butter. Bake at 350 degrees about 20 minutes. Cut pie fashion and serve hot.
August 5, 2006 at 7:44pm
August 5, 2006 at 7:44pm
#445863
The state of Wisconsin requires renewal of driver's licenses every eight years. This is a great improvement over the previous interval and the change was instituted shortly following my last renewal.

I have had a restriction on my license for the past forty years. Glasses required. However, I had bilateral cataract surgery in 2000 and that procedure is advanced to the point that prescription lenses are now implanted. That meant that postoperatively, my vision improved to 20/20!!! It was nothing short of miraculous. The first thing I did was to toss my old glasses permanently.

Therefore, for the past six years, I have been driving without glasses. I'm not sure that my story would have held water had I been stopped for something. When I got the renewal notice this time, I opted to have my vision checked at the clinic rather that that little counter-top video game at the examiner's office. It worked. I lost my restriction. I'm good for another eight years.*Bigsmile* The only remaining trauma was the driver-license photo booth. But you already know what I think about that issue.
August 4, 2006 at 8:57pm
August 4, 2006 at 8:57pm
#445661
The near universal image envisioned of future life on earth in film is one of stark unpleasantness. Over population and poor resource management translates to a bleak and drab world. Personally, I do not see it happening. We all can thank people like Auburndale town residents, Mr. and Mrs Harold Hilgart who do their part to thwart such a progression.

I recently spent a morning with Jeanette Hilgart in and around her lovely home near Auburndale. She and Harold are retired now but in their working life, they successfully raised five children, and ran a flourishing dairy farm. In all of her fifty-two years of marriage, Jeanette has been an avid gardener.

When they retired and moved into their current home, Jeanette continued to garden. She enjoys working in her flowerbeds in the cool quietness of evening. Every year her flowerbeds provide not only good therapy for her, but also a pleasant vista for passing motorists. I personally have enjoyed her efforts for the past thirty-five summers.
She derives great personal satisfaction from beautifying her home and seeing things grow. I would like to thank Jeanette Hilgart publicly for her work. I, for one, am grateful for it.

She plants both annuals and perennials. Plants like geraniums and dahlias are sheltered in fall to avoid freezing. Others are hardy. Jeanette is always looking for new and different varieties. This year she used red and white Wave petunias in her planters. She also maintains a vegetable garden and still cans produce.

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Jeanette has a recipe for holding her geranium plants over from year to year. In the fall, prior to the first frost, she cuts her geraniums back to leave only three-inch stems. She sets the pots in her unheated, enclosed porch. They are quiescent, uncovered and unwatered, until the new year when they begin to send forth shoots. She waters them. In March, she gives each another severe haircut back to three inches. Then she waters and feeds them until it is safe to place them outside again for the new summer. She does not exchange soil in the pots or uproot the plants at any time but does feed with Miracle Grow. I plan to try this with my geranium pots this year.
August 3, 2006 at 1:51am
August 3, 2006 at 1:51am
#445214
The down side to this writing job is that the paper requires a photo of my mug to include with the column. My kisser breaks cameras and I avoid having my picture taken at all cost. It is a dilemma but I want this job so I have resigned myself to submitting to this indignity.

"Just come in to the paper and we will take your picture," she offered. Whoa there, Nellie. I am not having one of those driver's license photos published for 15 thousand of my neighbors to giggle about. Nooo, thank you. I made an appointment with our local photography studio to sit for a picture. A professional photographer with an AIR BRUSH is gonna work my smiler over to the point of anonymity. When he is done with it, any resemblance to my physiognomy will be purely coincidental.

I've already decided that this pic will also serve for any book jacket and my obituary.*Delight*
August 2, 2006 at 3:10pm
August 2, 2006 at 3:10pm
#445071
More from our friends at The Other Pages.com
These are definitions of various 'stuff'. Not the kind you find in most dictionaries. In fact, many are from Ambrose Bierce's "Devils Dictionary." Two good examples are CRIMINAL, and, of course, SEX.


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ACADEME, n. An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught.
Ambrose Bierce

ACADEMY, n. [from ACADEME] A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce

ACTING, n: The most minor of gifts and not a very high class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
Katherine Hepburn

ADMIRATION, n: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
Ambrose Bierce

ARCHITECTURE, n: The art of how to waste space.
Philip Johnson


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BIRTH, n: The first and dirtiest of all disasters.
Ambrose Bierce

BOUNDARY, n: In political geography, an imaginary line between two nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary rights of another.
Ambrose Bierce

BOY, n: a noise with dirt on it.
Not Your Average Dictionary

BUDGET, n:
(1)An orderly system for living beyond your means.
Anon.
(2)An attempt to live below your yearnings.
Anon.

BUG, n: An aspect of a computer program which exists because the programmer was thinking about Jumbo Jacks or stock options when s/he wrote the program.
Not Your Average Dictionary

BUGS, pl. n: Small living things that small living boys throw on small living girls.
Anonymous

BUREAUCRAT, n:
(1) A person who cuts red tape sideways.
J. McCabe
(2) A politician who has tenure.
Anon.

BUSINESS, n: The art of extracting money from another man's pocket without resorting to violence.
Max Amsterdam


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CABBAGE, n: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Ambrose Bierce

CAT, n:
(1) A soft, indestructible automation provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in domestic circles.
Ambrose Bierce
(2) A lapwarmer with a built-in buzzer.
Anon.

CAPITOL, n: the seat of misgovernment.
Ambrose Bierce

CELEBRITY, n: One who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
H.L. Mencken

CELEBRITY, n: A person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being reognized.
Fred Allen

CENSOR, n: A man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
Granville Hicks

CHEF, n: Any cook who swears in French.
Anonymous

CHEMICALS, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made.
Anonymous

CHRISTIAN, n: One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbors.
Ambrose Bierce

CINEMUCK, n: The combination of popcorn, soda, and melted chocolate which covers the floors of movie theaters.
Anonymous

COMMAND, n: In computer science, a statement presented by a human and accepted by a computer in such a manner as to make the human feel as if he is in control.
Anonymous

COMMERCE, n: A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
Ambrose Bierce

COMMITTEE, n: A group of the unfit, appointed by the unwilling, to do the unnecessary.
Anon.

COMPROMISE, n: An agreement whereby both parties get what neither of them wanted.
Anon.

CONFERENCE, n: A gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Fred Allen

CONSCIENCE, n: The inner voice that warns us that someone may be looking.
H.L. Mencken

CONSERVATIVE, n: A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
Ambrose Bierce

CORPORATION, n: An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.
Ambrose Bierce

COWARD, n: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs.
Ambrose Bierce

CRIMINAL, n: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Howard Scott

CRITIC, n: One who boasts of being "hard to please" because nobody tries to please him.
Ambrose Bierce

CYNIC, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Ambrose Bierce

August 1, 2006 at 3:41pm
August 1, 2006 at 3:41pm
#444821
This is just cool.
Go to http://www.jacksonpollock.org , and just start moving your mouse around, and
then click from time to time.
July 31, 2006 at 5:39am
July 31, 2006 at 5:39am
#444499
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1. Ohio is the sound of an indian yawning. - Hyman Kaplan, a character by Leo Rosten
2. Oliver Cromwell had a large red nose, but under it were deeply religious feelings. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things
3. One by-product of raising cattle is calves. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things
4. One of Jacob's sons, Joseph gave refuse to the Israelites. - from Student Bloopers
5. One of their children, Cain, once asked, "Am I my brother's son?" - from Student Bloopers
6. One of the things you have to say for him: he doesn't mince his punches. - Leo Rosten
7. One of the main causes of dust is janitors. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things
8. The opposite of height is lowth. - Hyman Kaplan, a character by Leo Rosten
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9. Past tense means you used to be nervous.
10. People don't go there anymore. It's too crowded. - Yogi Berra
11. People seeking solitude are flocking here from the four corners of the world. - Leo Rosten
12. The people who followed the Lord were called the 12 opossums.Kids Say the Darndest Things
13. A person should take a bath once in the summer, not so often in the winter. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things
14. Pharaoh forced the Hebrew slaves to make bread without straw. - from Student Bloopers
15. Please excuse Ed from school Friday. He has very loose vowels.
16. Please excuse Miriam from school Tuesday, she had a cold and could not breed well.
17. The plural of sandwich is delicatessen. - Hyman Kaplan, a character by Leo Rosten
18. The police reported that the victem suffered at least two broken legs. - Leo Rosten
19. The police surrounded the building and threw an accordian around the block.
20. The Pyramids are a range of mountains between France and Spain. - from Student Bloopers
- R -

21. Remember when it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
22. Reverend Hammond was congratulated on being able to get his parish plastered. - Leo Rosten
23. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath. - from Student Bloopers
24. A rolling stone gathers no moths.
25. Rome wasn't burned in a day. - Leo Rosten
26. Rural life is mostly in the country.
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27. The sacred cows have come home to roost with a vengance.
28. Samuel Morse invented a code of telepathy. - from Student Bloopers
29. A scout obeys all to whom obedience is due and respects all duly constipated authorities. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things
30. A seven pound baby arrived last night to frighten the lives of Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Caswell.
31. She grabbed the bull by the tail and faced the problem squarely.
32. She held out her hand. The young man took it and left.
33. She never talks to strangers unless they're friends. - Leo Rosten
34. She was as mad as a wet blanket. - Leo Rosten
35. She went into the hospital after being bitten by a spider in a bathing suit. - Leo Rosten
36. Shhhh! I hear footprints. - Vernon Appoy
37. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. - from Student Bloopers
38. Solomon, one of David's sons, had 500 wives and 500 porcupines. - from Student Bloopers
39. The spinal column is a long bunch of bones. The head sits on the top and you sit on the bottom. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things
40. The sword of Damocles is hanging over Pandora's box.
41. Syntax is all the money collected at the church from sinners.Kids Say the Darndest Things
- T -

42. That snake in the grass is barking up the wrong tree.
43. That was another horse of a different color.
44. Their father is some kind of civil serpent.
45. There is no time like the pleasant. - George Bergman
46. There were only three other people in the restaurant, and half of them were waiters.
47. Then the Spanish Gorillas came down from the hills and nipped at Napoleon's flanks. - from Student Bloopers
48. These hemorrhoids are a pain in the neck.
49. They lived in the Sarah Desert and traveled by Camelot. - from Student Bloopers
50. This premises will soon be re-opened as a caffeteria with courteous and efficient self-service. - Leo Rosten
51. The three kinds of veins are areteries, vanities, and capillaries.
52. To collect sulphur, hold a deacon over a flame in a test tube.
53. To prevent head colds, use an agonizer to spray into the nose until it drips into the throat. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things
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54. Under the Constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms. - from Student Bloopers
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55. A virgin forest is a forest where the hand of man has never set foot. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things
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56. A waist is a terrible thing to mind.
57. The walls of medeival cathedrals were supported by fling buttocks.
58. Water is composed of two gins. Oxygin and hydrogin. Oxygin is pure gin. Hydrogin is gin and water. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things
59. We have deep depth. - Yogi Berra
60. We made too many wrong mistakes. - Yogi Berra
61. We do not raise silk worms in the United States, because we get our silk from rayon. He is a larger worm and gives more silk. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things
62. We had a longer holiday than usual this year because the school was closed for altercations.
63. When they fought with the Persians, the Greeks were outnumbered because the Persians had more men. - from Student Bloopers
64. When you mean longer ago than 'then' you say 'thence'.
65. When you get to the fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra
66. The word trousers is an uncommon noun because it is singular at the top and plural at the bottom.Kids Say the Darndest Things
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67. You can lead a horse to manure but you can't make him drink.
68. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him backstroke.
69. You can take a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead. - Stan Laurel
70. You can observe a lot by watching. - Yogi Berra
71. You have to take the bad with the worse.
72. You're here to have fun whether you like it or not.
July 30, 2006 at 5:18am
July 30, 2006 at 5:18am
#444287
Our local newspaper has an opening for a "cub" reporter and they have hired me to write!*Bigsmile* They will be paying me something. I was so excited, I didn't even ask how much. I am most interested in the experience and credit on a resume or query.

I will be writing a weekly column and any other stories that seem interesting. I am excited! Can you tell?
July 29, 2006 at 3:44am
July 29, 2006 at 3:44am
#444071
More malapropisms from the other page.org.

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1. The Egyptians built the Pyramids in the shape of a huge triangular cube. - from Student Bloopers
2. Every silver lining has a cloud around it.
3. Everything's fine - just honky-tonky. - Leo Rosten
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4. Female moths are called myths.
5. Finally, the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis. - from Student Bloopers
6. Fine furniture at reasonable prices: antique, colonial, and temporary. - Leo Rosten
7. The first thing they do when a baby is born is to cut its biblical chord.
8. The flood damage was so bad they had to evaporate the city.
9. Flying saucers are just an optical conclusion.
10. The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things
11. From now on I'm watching your every move with a fine-toothed comb. - Leo Rosten
- G -

12. The general direction of the Alps is straight up. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things
13. George Washington married Marth Curtis and in due time became the Father of Our Country. - from Student Bloopers
14. God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Montezuma. - from Student Bloopers
15. The Gorgons had long snakes in their hair. They lookd like women, only more horrible.
16. The government of Athens was democratic because people took the law into their own hands. - from Student Bloopers
17. The government of England was a limited mockery. - from Student Bloopers
18. Gravity was invented by Isaac Walton. - from Student Bloopers
19. Greeks invented three kinds of columns: Corinthian, Doric, and Ironic. - from Student Bloopers
20. Growing up the trellis were pink and yellow concubines.
21. The guy was all over the road. I had to swerve a number of times before I hit him.
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22. Handel was half German, half Italian, and half English. - from Student Bloopers
23. Hark! I hear a white horse coming!
24. Having one wife is called monotony.
25. He always puts his foot in his soup. - Leo Rosten
26. He fought with the Philatelists, a race of people who lived in Biblical times. - from Student Bloopers
27. Henry VIII found walking difficult because he had an abbess on his knee. - from Student Bloopers
28. He sent the package by partial post.
29. He wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't bear children. - from Student Bloopers
30. He was a friendly dog, said an observer with a curly tail and friendly manner. - Leo Rosten
31. He was between a rock and the deep blue sea.
32. He went to jail for making a false deduction.
33. He's the type who will cut your throat behind your back. - Leo Rosten
34. Homer also wrote the Oddity, in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. - from Student Bloopers
35. A horse divided against itself cannot stand. - from Student Bloopers
36. How would you like to write my autobiography?
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37. I challenge you to give a frank, affirmative answer, yes or no. - Leo Rosten
38. The Ides of March murdered Caesar because they thought he was going to be made king. - from Student Bloopers
39. I do hope you don't think I'm making a mountain out of a molehill, but that's the whole kettle of fish in a nutshell.
40. I don't want to join the kind of a club that accepts people like me as members. - Groucho Marx
41. I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary. - Yogi Beara
42. I live so far out of town, the mailman mails me my letters. - Henny Youngman
43. I'll give you a definite maybe. - Samuel Goldwyn
44. If a pronoun is a word used in place of a noun, a proverb is a pronoun used in place of a verb. - Hyman Kaplan, a character by Leo Rosten
45. If his father was alive today he'd be turning over in his grave. - Leo Rosten
46. If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's gonna stop them. - Yogi Berra
47. If the plural of host is hostess, then the plural of ghost is ghostess. - Hyman Kaplan, a character by Leo Rosten
48. If you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra
49. If your eye falls on a bargain, pick it up.
50. I may not always be right, but I'm never wrong. - Samuel R. Goldwyn
51. I'm havin' so many near misses they must be mistresses. - Vernon Appoy
52. I'm not the kind of person who wears his heart up his sleeve. - Leo Rosten
53. The inhabitants of Moscow are called Mosquitoes.Kids Say the Darndest Things
54. The Indian squabs carried porpoises on their back. - from Student Bloopers
55. The inhabitants of ancient Egypt were called mummies. - from Student Bloopers
56. In midevil times most of the people were alliterate. - from Student Bloopers
57. In one of Shakespear's famous plays, Hamlet rations out his situation by relieving himself in a long soliloquy. - from Student Bloopers
58. In spring, the salmon swim upstream to spoon.Kids Say the Darndest Things
59. In the middle of the 18th century, all the morons moved to Utah.Kids Say the Darndest Things
60. In the first book of the Bible, Guinesses, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. - from Student Bloopers
61. In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits and threw the java. - from Student Bloopers
62. In the ninteenth century, pheasants led terrible lives.
63. Iron was discovered because someone smelt it.Kids Say the Darndest Things
64. I suffer from a deviant septum.
65. It is kisstomary to cuss the bride. - Reverend Spooner
66. It's like deja-vu, all over again. - Yogi Berra
67. It's like finding a haystack full of needles. - Leo Rosten
68. It's time to grab the bull by the tail and look it in the eye.
69. I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body. - Winston Bennett, University of Kentucky basketball forward.
- J -

70. Jacob, son of Isaac, stole his brother's birth mark. - from Student Bloopers
71. Joan of Arc was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. - from Student Bloopers
72. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. - from Student Bloopers
73. The jury's verdict showed they were of one mind: temporarily insane. - Leo Rosten
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74. King Alfred conquered the Dames. - from Student Bloopers
75. King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery. - from Student Bloopers
76. King Harold musterded his troops before the Battle of Hastings. - from Student Bloopers
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77. A leopard is a form of dotted lion.
78. Let dead dogs sleep.
79. Let sleeping ducks lie.
80. Let's get down to brass roots.
81. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. - from Student Bloopers
82. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. - from Student Bloopers
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83. Magna Carta provided that no free men should be hanged twice for the same offense. - from Student Bloopers
84. That man is a real charmer, a regular Don Coyote. - Leo Rosten
85. Many men reach maturity, but only women reach maternity so far. - Leo Rosten
86. Money roots out all evil.
87. The match was so close that it was hanging on a cliff the whole time.- Vernon Appoy
88. The mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intollerable. - from Student Bloopers
89. Moses led them to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread, which is bread made without any ingredients. - from Student Bloopers
90. The most famous Italian composer was Liboretto. - Leo Rosten
91. Most of the houses in France are made of plaster of Paris. - from Kids Say the Darndest Things
92. Mother no's best.
93. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Sloane request your presents at the marriage of their daughter...
94. My car sustained no dmage whatsoever in the accident, and the other car had even less.
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95. Necessity is the mother of convention.
96. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them. - from Student Bloopers
97. Never let a gift horse in the house.
98. Ninety percent of the game is half mental. - Yogi Berra
99. No one heard him laugh like that since his wife died. - Leo Rosten
100. Now the shoe is on the other horse!
101. Not all that shivers is cold. - Leo Rosten

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