Cliche Connoisseur Pillows

Cliche Amusement Park. This park is no fun at all --- It's too much like real life! Look, that ride is called "The Emotional Roller Coaster." Over there is "Life's Ups and Downs"! ... and "The Mood Swings"! Look! The good old "Tunnel of Love"! Finally! A ride that's just a fun escape! Out of ardor. "Out of ardor" --- More real life. (Published originally Sept. 4, 2005.)

I think I prefer the desert island cliche."

Rare Exceptions: The Straw that became a massage therapist dedicated to treating chronic back pain in camels...

'Doc, sometimes I feel that my life is turning into some sort of boring cartoon cliche...'

"I wrote my essay specifically so that Hollywood could easily make a blockbuster out of it!"

"Bert, I'm confused. What happens after we circle the wagons, tighten our belts and walk a mile in our customer's shoes? Is that when the chickens come home to roost?"

'As you can see by the pie chart, most of our expenses go to well, pie.'

"The cat told me to eat your homework."

'Let's start out with cliches and pithy slogans - and work our way up to wisdom ...OK?'

"Repeat after me: We are delivering the proactive core value promises and rolling out our real time best practice action plan going forward ..."

"Call security, Miss Rightman. I have an overwhelming urge to throw good money after bad"

Snowyphus

Totalitarian Humour

'If God had meant us to fly, he'd give us more leg room.'

Atlas with the earth, says: 'So then I thought, Why not just roll the damn thing?'

The Devil's in the detail!

'It was a dark and stormy night. Also, there was a Catch-22.'

"In a just world we'd have 'No Lawyer Left Behind'."

'Here's the good news. 'Happy camper' and 'are we having fun yet' have been added to the official list of banned cliches.'

The Forever Stamp

Crazy old clown cat lady.

"Yes, it's a sports related injury. He dropped his bowling ball."

Good stripper cop / Bad stripper cop

"Hello darling, what do you do for a living?"

You guys were right! Screaming profanities is more satisfying than howling these days.

'It's negative attention ... as long as you keep asking why, they'll keep on doing it.'

"No, I don't believe youth is wasted on the young. I believe money is."

Man frozen in portrait pose.

Mystery Writing 101 - Mailbox: The butler did it, the gardener, the chauffeur.

Clown's In and Out Trays.

'This year, Sire, I've created a socko narrative of scatological raillery and rollicking nihilism which ends with a sexy justification for third quarter losses.'

'... Further to our telephone conversation of the 3rd, my fax of the 11th, my letters of the 16th, 23rd and 28th, my emails of....'

"If all you have is a whatchamacallit then every problem looks like a thingamajig."

'Turns out medicine is the best medicine.'

Moliere