- Arnold Schwarzenegger's favorite pick-up line: "Come with me, if you want to live a little."
- Jesus's team met Satan's team in the World Series. Jesus swept.
- Opera: "Liked it, but why were all the actors singing?"
- BurgerTime hero selected a set of drunken crackheads: Peter Pepper picked a peck of pickled pipers.
- Morning sickness: being a morning person.
- Inflation in China: food prices up 84%. Also, now, it's with twelve you get egg roll.
- "I need to crash in a few." -- Mohammed Atta's last words
- Sometimes I shudder to think what Hitler might have done if it hadn't been for term limits.
- Off my lawn, n. phr.: something you get.
- Romanian train conductor, Mr. Ciuciu
- "My wife drives me to work... and to drink."
- "Unlike me, the night is still young."
- "A man never stands so tall as when he stoops to steal candy from a child."
- [after the latest terrorist bombing in France] "I'm glad that Beirut has regained its status as the Paris of the Middle East."
- "Down and out ARE Paris and London."
- "Do I repeat myself? Very well, then -- I repeat myself. I am large; I contain multisets."
- "How come you hit every target, and clipped my cat's claws so neatly?" -- "I'm a vet... and, I'm a vet." [Stolen from The Greatest Line Ever.]
- Always look on the bright side: LSBTYD
- Indefinite integrals ought to end with "- C": just as valid, but think of all the ink/chalk/etc. we'll save!
- Most analysts say the economy will worsen; however, most algebraists say it will improve.
- Some social scientists agree with Rutherford, some don't.
- Kirstie Alley's last words: "But Shelley Long still lives!"
- In English, the standard example of an obvious statement is "2+2=4"; in Russian, it's "2×2=4". Is there a language in which it's "2^2=4"?
- 65536: most people think of it as
. I prefer
.
- Вот -- заветы Ильичей. / Как узнать, какой там -- чей?
- Самые лучшие русскоязычные юмористы, сто лет тому назад: Аверченко и Зощенко. А еще говорят, что Украина -- не наша!
- "Вчера я в Ленинграде, в Кировском, смотрел 'Ивана Сусанина'. Или... тьфу, опять все перепутал! Это я в Питере, в Мариинском, смотрел 'Жизнь за царя'..."
- "И, Ахмашу избегая..."
- Not my joke, but true story:
S, after several hours of debugging: "OK, I've finally found it! When some_function() calls some_other_function(), it passes it some_array[1] instead of some_array[0]!"
[pause]
K: "Well, that's really the only kind of bug there ever is... Some 0s should've been 1s, some 1s should've been 0s..."
- "It's not the heat, it's the humidity of my clothes."
- From somebody's Wikipedia page: "he grew up speaking French in an impoverished home with an abusive father"
- "These people -- and I use the term loosely -- ..."
- New social-media poster "Testing123" explains his handle: "Well, 'Testing1' through 'Testing122' were already taken..."
- USA : stately :: Canada : provincial ?
- August 21, 2017: total solar eclipse in the afternoon, Deep Purple (once Guiness-certified as "the world's loudest band") concert in the evening. "It's not often that you can go blind and deaf, on the same day!"
- Morning dialog: (also, true story)
C: "Oh, hon?"
[pause]
C: "HON?"
[pause]
S: "What?"
C: "What time do you wanna be woken up?"
[pause]
S: "You woke me up just to ask me what time I wanted to be woken up?"
C: "Well, I didn't know you were sleeping. I heard you cough."
S: "What, I never cough in my sleep?"
C: "Actually, you do."
[pause]
C: "So, what time?"
Bonus true story:
Grading papers. Problem: "Prove that if a graph is not connected, then its complement is connected."
"We use a contrapositive proof..."
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