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Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
- Plato
POTPOURRI

Deft Definitions

  • orangutan.jpgAdult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and now grows in the middle.
  • Beauty Salon: A place where women curl up and dye.
  • Cannibal: Someone who is fed up with people.
  • Chickens: The only creatures you eat before they are born and after they are dead.
  • Committee: A body that keeps minutes and wastes hours.
  • Dust: Mud with the juice squeezed out.
  • Egotist: Someone who is usually me-deep in conversation.
  • Gossip: A person who will never tell a lie if the truth will do more damage.
  • Handkerchief: Cold Storage.
  • Inflation: Cutting money in half without damaging the paper.
  • Mosquito: An insect that makes you like flies better.
  • Raisin: Grape with a sunburn.
  • Secret: Something you tell to one person at a time.
  • Toothache: The pain that drives you to extraction.
  • Tomorrow: One of the greatest labor saving devices of today.
  • Wrinkles: Something other people have. You have character lines.
  • Yawn: An honest opinion openly expressed.

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    Devil in the Church
    Generosity Begins at Home
    Murphy's Other Laws
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