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'He was about this tall, horns, cloven hooves, and a ring in his nose, but whether or not he was a BULL, I don't want to speculate.'

"Thanks for walking a mile in my shoe but it's beginning to hurt now."

"No, I really thought each sentence ended with an emoji!"

"That was totally....what's the word I'm looking for?"

Ninedency: A budding tendency

'Nurse, why is there always a fly in my ointment?'

"It's great to see Biff; Socksie the cat is out of the bag..."

"I'm still pre-literate."

"It's an honest mistake I'm sure we'll never hear of again."

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

"I won't be in today, I'm feeling a little under the coffee table."

"I believe it was called 'cursive'."

The Elephant in the Womb

'You always talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul, but you never mention Mary.'

"I propose the next person who says 'it is what it is,' we beat the living hell out of him."

'How do you stop a fish from smelling?'

"...L...uh, M...uh Q...how come there are so many darn letters in the alphabet anyway?"

'... Going once...going twice...aaaand--sold! To the gentleman in the front row for a thousand words.'

'Let's cut right through to the heart of the matter.'

"You scratch my back, I'll scratch your is just a figure of speech, Ned. A little left, and higher."

"My mom is a vegetarian, so she doesn't bring home the bacon. She brings home kale and quinoa."

Famous Oxymorons...

"I owe all my success to the psychiatrist who gave me the word GREED as my mantra!"

"Oh boy, by the way this guy is moving, we can assume he's got some of our friends in his pants..."

'Please Miss, is it where Noah kept his bees?'

Museum of Natural Cliches

Irritable Vowel Syndrome

Street painter puts real face on man with happy face.

"I don't like the tone of your voice. Mind if I tweak it a bit?"

"If you want my opinion you're damned if you do and damned if you don't."

"I can't believe this! All these filthy messages on your cell phone! And so many of them! What is it? 100? 500? 1,000?"

Devil in the detail

The Fascinating Language of Ambivalence, Decoded.

'Mummy, what's a daddy one of those called?'