"The Ford Falcon holds the proud title of……" — Dave Barry
"The Ford Falcon holds the proud title of Slowest Car Ever Built. In certain areas of the country you can go to a stoplight and find Falcon drivers who pressed down on their accelerators in 1963 and are still waiting for their cars to move."
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508 Quotes by Dave Barry
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Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
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The word user is the word used by the computer professional when they mean idiot.
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Reality is what kicks back when you kick it. This is just what physicists do with their particle accelerators. We…
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The copy of an ad is merely a punning gag to distract the critical faculties while the image of the…
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