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- On a New York subway you get fined for spitting, but you can throw up for nothing.
- "Have you done your homework?" my mother would ask. "I'll do it later." "You will do it now, young man. I don't want you winding…
- Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.
- In the south there's a difference between 'Naked' and 'Nekkid.' 'Naked' means you don't have any clothes on. 'Nekkid' means you don't have any clothes…
- The idiot who invented instant grits also thought of frozen fried chicken, and they ought to lock him up before he tries to freeze-dry collards.
- I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.
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