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OldMeg Thu 12-Apr-18 11:07:41

Some pretty heavy threads on GN at the moment leaving me feeling rather down. Thinking if others are feeling the same, especially this dready, great morning perhaps these silly quotes from the comedian Steven Wrightbmight raise a smile?

The Quotes of Steven Wright:
1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
3 - Half the people you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ..... But she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
19 - I intend to live forever ... So far, so good.
20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name
25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.
34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?

MamaCaz Thu 12-Apr-18 11:11:45

Thanks, OldMeg grin

rockgran Thu 12-Apr-18 11:13:02

Brilliant - I'll be using some of these as my "rules to live by".grin

grannyqueenie Thu 12-Apr-18 11:40:02

Always good to have something to lighten the greyness. I thought 33 was especially appropriate since I’ve just popped to the supermarket with the wrong list!

silverdarlings Thu 12-Apr-18 11:51:31

Lots of Goodies here O.M. especially 9 and 12 +

Oldwoman70 Thu 12-Apr-18 11:56:45

Einstein quotes: (OK not particularly funny!)

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits

Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I am not sure about the universe

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second, when you sit on a red hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity

and my favourite

Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life believing it is stupid

farview Thu 12-Apr-18 12:10:25

Wonderful!! Just needed a lift up!!smile

goldengirl Thu 12-Apr-18 12:26:09

Very cheering!

hildajenniJ Thu 12-Apr-18 12:44:31

"The best thing about the good old days is, we were neither good nor old".

"Correct punctuation: the difference between a sentence that's well written and a sentence that's, well, written".

Mapleleaf Thu 12-Apr-18 12:59:36

Thank you for those. Brought a smile ? to my face!
You’re right, I think we could do with a few things to cheer us up!

Anniebach Thu 12-Apr-18 13:01:05

14 and 25 ?

wot Thu 12-Apr-18 13:02:08

I love it Meg....thanks for putting a smile on my face!!

wot Thu 12-Apr-18 13:04:06

Is there a way I can print these? Too lazy to type them all out.

OldMeg Thu 12-Apr-18 13:32:43

Copy and paste them to yourself wot in an email.

Eloethan Thu 12-Apr-18 13:59:41

I don't usually like one-liners but these made me laugh. Thanks OldMeg.

Jalima1108 Thu 12-Apr-18 14:31:18

Thanks OldMeg grin

Here are some from Tim Vine:
“I’d like to start with the chimney jokes – I’ve got a stack of them. The first one is on the house.”
“I did a gig in a fertility clinic. I got a standing ovulation.” “I had a dream last night that I was cutting carrots with the Grim Reaper – dicing with death.”
“I rang up British Telecom and said: ‘I want to report a nuisance caller.’ He said: ‘Not you again.'”
“I saw this bloke chatting-up a cheetah and I thought: ‘He’s trying to pull a fast one.'”
“The advantages of easy origami are two-fold.”
“I rang up my local swimming baths. I said: ‘Is that the local swimming baths?’ He said: ‘It depends where you’re calling from.'”

Jalima1108 Thu 12-Apr-18 14:32:00

ps Tim's are not philosophical, just daft!

Nanawind Thu 12-Apr-18 17:46:47

Love coming onto gransnet I always find a thread that makes me laugh. Thanks everyone x

Grannyknot Thu 12-Apr-18 19:49:14

Tim Vine always makes me laugh. I like this one from him:

I went on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. Never again!

MissAdventure Thu 12-Apr-18 20:01:20

A friend of mine always wanted to be run over by a steam train. When it happened, he was chuffed to bits! So I went to the record shop and I said "What have you got by The Doors?" He said: "A bucket of sand and a fire blanket!"

Bathsheba Thu 12-Apr-18 20:11:29

Thanks OldMeg, just the tonic we all need at the moment! 11 and 34 grin

Chewbacca Thu 12-Apr-18 20:45:47

That made me laugh out loud *MissA grin

tassiegran Thu 12-Apr-18 23:05:14

Thanks so much. OH and I have been laughing out loud. Need more posts like this smile

MissAdventure Thu 12-Apr-18 23:07:50

I phoned the local gym and I asked if they could teach me how to do the splits. He said, "How flexible are you?" I said, "I can't make Tuesdays."

"He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library'. I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'"

Chewbacca Thu 12-Apr-18 23:19:58

grin dont know where youre getting these MissA, but they're brilliant! More!