STEVEN WRIGHT JOKES

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--- not-all-there ---

	Last night, I walked up to this beautiful woman in a bar and
	asked her, "Do you live around here often?"  She said, "You're
	wearing two different colored socks."  I said, "Yes, but to me
	they're the same because I go by thickness."  Then she asked,
	"How do you feel?"  and I said, "Well, you know when you're
	sitting on a chair and you lean back so you're just on two legs
	then you lean too far and you almost fall over but at the last
	second you catch yourself?  I feel like that all the time."

	Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.  I
	think I've forgotten this before.

	Lots of comedians have people they try to mimic.  I mimic my
	shadow.

	I got a new shadow.  I had to get rid of the other one...  It
	wasn't doing what I was doing.

	I was once walking through the forest alone.  A tree fell right
	in front of me -- and I didn't hear it.

	I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it
	is.  Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I
	say, "I think I might have written that."

	He asked me if I knew what time it was.  I said, "Yes, but not
	right now."

	I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally
	walk through into another dimension.

	I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely
	abstract.  No brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.

	My watch is three hours fast, and I can't fix it.  So I'm going
	to move to New York.

	I like to reminisce with people I don't know.

	I like to skate on the other side of the ice.

	If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses.

	Is it weird in here, or is it just me?

	I xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.

	I want to get a tattoo of myself on my entire body, 
	only 2" taller. 

	I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. 
	They said, "What for?"  I said, "I'm going to buy some 
	sugar."

	Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder 
	how much deeper the ocean would be if that didn't happen. 

	Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small 
	country.

	Every so often, I like to go to the window, look up, and 
	smile for a satellite picture.

	I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started 
	reading. Then I said to the guy, "Let me ask you a 
	question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at 
	the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does
	anything happen?" He said, "I don't know." I said, "I 
	don't want your job." 

	Today I dialed a wrong number... The other person said, 
	"Hello?" and I said, "Hello, could I speak to Joey?"... 
	They said, "Uh... I don't think so... he's only 2 months 
	old." I said, "I'll wait." 

	Why is the alphabet in that order?  Is it because of 
	that song?   A-B-C-D...  The guy who wrote 
	that wrote everything.

	I got up one morning and couldn't find my socks, so I 
	called Information. She said, "Hello, Information."  
	I said, "I can't find my socks."  She said, "They're 
	behind the couch."  And they were!  

	I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't 
	know what to feed it.  

	I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. 
	But I had to give it back.  

	One night my apartment was robbed and everything was 
	replaced with an exact replica. Seriously. I called 
	my roommate in and said, "Look at this. Everything has 
	been replaced with a replica.' He said, "Who are you?"
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--- big picture ---

	It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

	Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.

	You can't have everything.  Where would you put it?

	I have the world's largest collection of seashells.  I keep it
	on all the beaches of the world...  Perhaps you've seen it.

	It's a good thing we have gravity, or else when birds died
	they'd just stay right up there.  Hunters would be all confused.

	I have a map of the United States... Actual size. It 
	says, "Scale:  1 mile = 1 mile."  I spent last summer 
	folding it. I also have a full-size map of the world. I 
	hardly ever unroll it. People ask me where I live, and 
	I say, "E6".
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--- banks ---

	I saw a bank that said "24 Hour Banking", but I don't have that
	much time.
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--- movies ---

	Last time I went to the movies I was thrown out for bringing my
	own food.  My argument was that the concession stand prices are
	outrageous.  Besides, I haven't had a Bar-B-Que in a long time.

	One time I went to a drive-in in a taxi cab.  The movie cost me
	$95.

	I went to the cinema, and the prices were:  Adults $5.00,
	children $2.50.  So I said, "Give me two boys and a girl."
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--- restaurants ---

	I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time."  So
	I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

	I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big
	buffet in the shape of an Ouija board.  You'd think about what
	kind of food you want, and the table would move across the floor
	to it.

	I used to be a waiter, but I was fired for clearing tables.  I
	was clearing them for take off.  I had them all lined up
	outside.  People thought it was an outdoor cafe.  I said, "No,
	these are leaving at 3."  They were going to fire me anyway,
	because I told them I thought they should put the wrapper on the
	inside of the straw since that's the part you don't want to get
	dirty.
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--- stores ---

	I went to a general store.  They wouldn't let me buy anything
	specifically.

	I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the
	aisle where they keep the generic brands.  Her name was "woman".

	Years ago, I worked in a natural, organic health food store in
	Seattle, Washington.  One day a man walked in and asked, "If I
	can melt dry ice, can I swim without getting wet?"  Two days
	later I was fired for eating cotton candy and drinking straight
	Bosco on the job.

	I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery.  When I got
	there, the guy was locking the front door.  I said, "Hey, the
	sign says you're open 24 hours."  He said, "Yes, but not in a
	row."

	I love to go shopping.  I love to freak out salespeople.  They
	ask me if they can help me, and I say, "Have you got anything
	I'd like?"  Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, "Extra
	medium."

	There was a power outage at a department store yesterday.
	Twenty people were trapped on the escalators.

	I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas.  I took it to
	the Gift Wrap Department and told them to wrap it, but in a
	different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping.

	I was in the grocery store. I saw a sign that said "pet supplies". 
	So I did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said 
	"compact cars".

	I went to an inconvenience store.  Everything was on the top shelf.
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--- appliances ---

	For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier...  I put
	them in the same room and let them fight it out.  Then I filled
	my humidifier with wax, and now my room is all shiny.

	I have a microwave fireplace in my house...  The other night I
	laid down in front of the fire for the evening in two minutes.

	I have the oldest typewriter in the world.  It types in pencil.

	I invented the cordless extension cord.

	I put my air conditioner in backwards. It got cold outside. 
	The weatherman on TV was confused. "It was supposed to be hot 
	today." 

	Under my bed I have shoe box full of telephone rings. Whenever 
	I get lonely I open it up just a bit and I get a call. One 
	time I dropped the box all over the floor and the phone 
	wouldn't stop ringing, so I had it disconnected. I bought a 
	new phone though. I didn't have much money so I had to buy an 
	irregular phone -- it had no number 5 on it. I saw a close 
	friend of mine the other day... He said, "Steven, why haven't 
	you called me?"  I said, "I can't call everyone I want. My 
	new phone has no five on it."  He said, "How long have you 
	had it?" I said, "I don't know... My calendar has no sevens 
	on it."  

	I once put instant coffee in a microwave oven... Almost went 
	back in time.

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--- books ---

	I'm writing a book.  I've got the page numbers done, so now I
	just have to fill in the rest.

	I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
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--- apartments ---

	I installed a skylight in my apartment....  The people who live
	above me are furious!

	All of the people in my building are insane.  The guy above me
	designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats.  The lady across
	the hall tried to rob a department store...  With a pricing
	gun...  She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm
	marking down everything in the store."
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--- houses ---

	Doing a little work around the house.  I put fake brick
	wallpaper over a real brick wall, just so I'd be the only one
	who knew.  People come over and I'm gonna say, "Go ahead, touch
	it...  It feels real."

	In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms
	above...  So I never have to go upstairs.

	One time the power went out in my house and I had to use the
	flash on my camera to see my way around.  I made a sandwich and
	took fifty pictures of my face.  The neighbors thought there was
	lightning in my house.

	I have a decaffeinated coffee table.  You'd never know it to
	look at it.

	All the plants in my house are dead -- I shot them last night.
	I was torturing them by watering them with ice cubes.

	My neighbors don't like it when I talk to my plants...  I use a
	megaphone.

	Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity...
	If you wanted to run the blender, you had to rub balloons on
	your head.  If you wanted to cook, you had to pull off a sweater
	real quick.

	I've never seen electricity, so I don't pay for it.  I write
	right on the bill, "I'm sorry, I haven't seen it all month."

	My house is made out of balsa wood, so when I want to scare the
	neighborhood kids I lift it over my head and tell them to get
	out of my yard or I'll throw it at them.

	I bought a house, on a one-way dead-end road.  I don't know how
	I got there.

	The other night I came home late, and tried to unlock my house
	with my car keys.  I started the house up.  So, I drove it
	around for a while.  I was speeding, and a cop pulled me over.
	He asked where I lived.  I said, "right here, officer".  Later,
	I parked it on the freeway, got out, and yelled at all the cars,
	"Get out of my driveway!"

	My house is on the median strip of a highway.  You don't really
	notice, except I have to leave the driveway doing 60 MPH.

	In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. 
	Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. 
	Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said, 
	"Cut it out."
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--- cars and driving ---

	I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights.
	I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone.

	I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it
	looks like I'm the only one moving.

	I play the harmonica.  The only way I can play is if I get my
	car going really fast, and stick it out the window.  I've been
	arrested three times for practicing.

	I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one
	out.  Now my car goes 500 miles per hour.  The harmonica sounds
	*amazing*.

	I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left
	earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

	I had to stop driving my car for a while...  The tires got
	dizzy.

	I want to start a car repair shop.  I have already got the air
	for the tires.

	I used to work in a fire hydrant factory.  You couldn't park
	anywhere near the place.

	I like to pick up hitchhikers.  When they get in the car I say,
	"Put on your seat belt.  I want to try something.  I saw it once
	in a cartoon, but I think I can do it."

	I decided to leave and go to California, so I packed up my
	Salvador Dali print of two blindfolded dental hygienists trying
	to make a circle on an Etch-a-Sketch, and I headed for the
	highway and began hitching.  Within three minutes I got picked
	up by one of those huge trailer trucks carrying 20 brand new
	cars.  I climbed up the side of the cab and opened the door.
	The guy said, "I don't have much room up here, why don't you get
	into one of the cars out back."  So I did.  And he was really
	into picking people up because he picked up 19 more.  We all had
	our own cars.  Then he went 90 miles per hour and we all got
	speeding tickets.

	I was going 70 miles an hour and got stopped by a cop who said,
	"Do you know the speed limit is 55 miles per hour?"  "Yes,
	officer, but I wasn't going to be out that long..."

	One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign.  He said,
	"Didn't you see the stop sign?"  I said, "Yeah, but I don't
	believe everything I read."

	What's another word for Thesaurus?

	I went to court for a parking ticket.  I pleaded insanity.  I
	said, "Your honor, why would anyone in their right mind park in
	the passing lane?"

	When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great
	parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask
	me if I'm leaving.

	Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone...  When I came
	back the entire area was missing.

	A cop stopped me for speeding. He said, "Why were you going so 
	fast?" I said, "See this thing my foot is on? It's called an 
	accelerator. When you push down on it, it sends more gas to the 
	engine. The whole car just takes right off.  And see this thing? 
	This steers it." 

	I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. 
	Now when I get pulled over the cop looks at it (moving it nearer 
	and farther, trying to see it clearly)... and says, "Here, you 
	can go."
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--- airplanes ---

	I used to be an airline pilot.  I got fired because I kept
	locking the keys in the plane.  They caught me on an 80 foot
	stepladder with a coathanger.

	One night a jet flew a little bit too close to my house.  I was
	walking from the living room to the kitchen, and the stewardess
	told me to sit down.

	When I go, I'm flying Air Bizarre.  It's a good airline.  You
	buy a one way round trip ticket.  You leave any Monday, and they
	bring you back the previous Friday...  That way you still have
	the weekend.
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--- friends ---

	A friend of mine is into Voodoo Acupuncture.  You don't have to
	go.  You'll just be walking down the street, and...
	Ooooohhhhhh, that's much better...

	I owed my friend George $25.  For about three weeks I owed it to
	him.  The whole time I had the money on me -- he didn't know it.
	Walking through New York City, 2:30 in the morning and got held
	up.  He said, "Gimme all your money."  I said, "Wait a minute."
	I said, "George, here's the 25 dollars I owe you."  The the
	thief took a thousand dollars out of his own money and he gave
	it to George.  At gunpoint made me borrow a thousand dollars
	from George.

	My girlfriend asked me how long I was going to be gone on this
	tour.  I said, "the whole time."

	My girlfriend does her nails with white-out.  When she's asleep,
	I go over there and write misspelled words on them.

	So I figured I'd leave the area, because I had no ties there
	anyway except for this girl I was seeing.  We had conflicting
	attitudes:  I really wasn't into meditating and she wasn't
	really into being alive.  I told her I knew when I was going to
	die because my birth certificate has an expiration date.
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--- sleeping ---

	I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that
	means it's going to be up all night.

	My girlfriend's so intense...  She woke me up the other night
	and asked, "If you could tell exactly when and how you were
	going to die, would you want to know?"  "Heck no," I said,
	"Why?"  "Doesn't matter, just go back back to sleep..."

	When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you
	sleep well?"  I said, "No, I made a few mistakes."

	I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.

	I can remember the first time I had to go to sleep. Mom said, 
	"Steven, time to go to sleep." I said, "But I don't know how." 
	She said, "It's real easy. Just go down to the end of tired 
	and hang a left." So I went down to the end of tired, and just 
	out of curiosity I hung a right. My mother was there, and she 
	said "I thought I told you to go to sleep."  
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--- pets ---

	It's a good apartment because they allow pets.  I have a
	Shetland pony named Nikkie.  Last summer Nikkie was involved in
	a bizarre electrolysis accident.  All her hair was removed
	except for her tail.  Now I rent her out to Hare Krishna family
	picnics.

	My roommate got a pet elephant.  Then it got lost.  It's in the
	apartment somewhere.

	Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

	If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on
	their feet, what happen if you strap toast on the back of a cat
	and drop it?

	I bought a dog the other day...  I named him Stay.  It's fun to
	call him...  "Come here, Stay!  Come here, Stay!"  He went
	insane.  Now he just ignores me and keeps typing.  He's an East
	German Shepherd.

	I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes.  They had little pictures
	of cats on them.  Then I took one out and he ran around in
	circles.

	The other day, I was walking my dog around my building...  on
	the ledge.  Some people are afraid of heights.  Not me, I'm
	afraid of widths.

	I spilled spot remover on my dog.  He's gone now.

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--- fishing ---

	Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali.  He was using a
	dotted line.  He caught every other fish.

	There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore
	looking like an idiot.

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--- chemistry ---

	If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the
	precipitate.

	(Referring to a glass of water:)  I mixed this myself.  Two
	parts H, one part O.  I don't trust anybody!

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--- childhood ---

	I was born by Caesarean section...  But not so you'd notice.
	It's just that when I leave a house, I go out through the
	window.

	When I was a baby, I kept a diary.  Recently, I was rereading
	it.  It said, "Day 1 -- Still tired from the move.  Day 2 --
	Everybody talks to me like I'm an idiot."

	When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a
	closet for five minutes without moving.  He said it was elevator
	practice.

	I didn't get a toy train like the other kids.  I got a toy
	subway instead.  You couldn't see anything, but every now and
	then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by.

	When I was a little kid we had a sand box.  It was a quicksand
	box.  I was an only child...  Eventually.

	When I was five years old I was on a merry go round.  There was
	a gunshot nearby.  The horses stampeded.  There I was running
	down the street on a purple wooden horse.

	When I was little my grandfather asked me how old I was.  I
	said, "Five."  He said, "When I was your age, I was six."

	When I was eight, I played Little League.  I was on first; I
	stole third; I went straight across.  Earlier that week, I
	learned that the shortest distance between two points was a
	direct line.  I took advantage of that knowledge.

	I used to own an ant farm but had to give it up.  I couldn't
	find tractors small enough to fit it.

	My friend Winnie is a procrastinator.  He didn't get his
	birthmark until he was eight years old.

	When I was 10, my pa told me never to talk to strangers.  We
	haven't spoken since.

	My school colors were clear.  We used to say, "I'm not naked,
	I'm in the band."

	When I have a kid, I want to buy one of those strollers for
	twins.  Then put the kid in and run around, looking frantic.
	When he gets older, I'd tell him he used to have a brother, but
	he didn't obey.

	Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the
	beach...  It pisses me off!  I'll go over to a little baby and
	say, "What are you doing here?  You haven't worked a day in your
	life!"

	My friend has a baby.  I'm recording all the noises he makes so
	later I can ask him what he meant.
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--- other long stories ---

	I got into an elevator at work and this man followed in after
	me...  I pushed "1" and he just stood there...  I said, "Hi,
	where you going?"  He said, "Phoenix."  So I pushed Phoenix.  A
	few seconds later the doors opened, two tumbleweeds blew in...
	We were in downtown Phoenix.  I looked at him and said, "You
	know, you're the kind of guy I want to hang around with."  We
	got into his car and drove out to his shack in the desert.  I
	asked him why he lives all alone out in the desert.  He said,
	"Don't tell anyone, but I'm doing secret research for the
	government."  I asked what kind of research.  He said, "I'm
	trying to determine who *really* built the pyramids.  Now, I'm
	not positive, but I think it was a guy named 'Phil'."  Then the
	phone rang.  He said, "You get it."  I picked it up and said,
	"Hello?"...  The other side said, "Is this Steven Wright?"...  I
	said, "Yes..."  The guy said, "Hi, I'm Mr.  Jones, the student
	loan director from your bank.  It seems you have missed your
	last 17 payments, and the university you attended said that they
	received none of the $17,000 we loaned you.  We would just like
	to know what happened to the money?"  I said, "Mr.  Jones, I'll
	give it to you straight.  I gave all of the money to my friend
	Jiggs Casey, and with it he built a nuclear weapon...  And I
	would appreciate it if you never called me again."

	One day I got on the usual bus, and when I stepped in, I saw the
	most gorgeous blond Chinese girl...  I sat beside her.  I said,
	"Hi," and she said, "Hi," and then I said, "Nice day, isn't
	it?," and she said, "I saw my analyst today and he says I have a
	problem."  So I asked, "What's the problem?"  She replied, "I
	can't tell you.  I don't even know you..."  I said, "Well
	sometimes it's good to tell your problems to a perfect stranger
	on a bus."  So she said, "Well, my analyst said I'm a
	nymphomaniac and I only like Jewish cowboys...  By the way, my
	name is Denise."  I said, "Hello, Denise.  My name is Bucky
	Goldstein..."

	Now I'm going to tell you about the girl I'm seeing now.  I met
	her at a Macy's in New York.  She was buying clothes, and I was
	putting slinkies on the escalators.  The girl I'm seeing now,
	Rachel, is a very pretty girl.  She has emerald eyes and long,
	flowing plaid hair.  The last week in August, we went camping
	way up in Canada.  We were laying around in the woods and stuff,
	and I don't know how she did it but she got poison ivy on her
	brain and the only way she can scratch it is if she thinks about
	sandpaper.  She's a rich girl, she's from somewhere else.  And
	her father is an incredible millionaire.  He's the guy who
	designed the diagram to show you which way to put the batteries
	in something.  Having sex with Rachel is amazing.  It's like
	going to a concert.  She yells a lot.  She throws frisbees
	around the room.  And when she wants more she lights a match.

	Last time I went skiing, I had to get up at 5:00 in the morning.
	I knew I couldn't do that, so I slept with my skis on.  My ride
	came at 5:30 in the morning, couldn't wake me up so he carried
	me out of the house, put my skis on the roof rack of the car,
	and drove to the mountain.  Seventeen miles later, I woke up out
	of this incredibly bizarre dream that I was skydiving
	horizontally.  I'm sure this has happened to you.

	A while ago, I went skiing in England.  It was a rare package:
	two weeks in England, one night in Connecticut, two weeks in
	England.  I said, "Yes, I'll take it."  I got on this chairlift
	with this guy I didn't know.  We went halfway up the mountain
	without saying a word.  Then he turned to me and said, "You
	know, this is the first time I've gone skiing in ten years."  I
	said, "Why did you take such a long time off?"  He said, "I was
	in prison.  Want to know why?"  I said, "Not really.  Well, you
	better tell me why."  He said, "I pushed a total stranger off a
	Ferris wheel."  I said, "I remember you."

	I looked out my apartment window, and I saw a bird wearing
	sneakers and a button saying, "I ain't flying no where."  I
	said, "What's your problem buddy?"  He said, "I'm sick of this
	stuff -- winter here, summer there, winter here, summer there.
	I don't know who thought this stuff up, but it certainly wasn't
	a bird."  I said, "Well, I was just making breakfast, come on
	in.  Want some eggs?  Sorry."

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--- other miscellaneous one-liners ---

	One night I came home very late.  It was the next night.

	I own the erasers for all the miniature golf pencils.

	After they make styrofoam, what do they ship it in?

	I was arrested for selling illegal-sized paper.

	The ice cream truck in my neighborhood plays "Helter, Skelter."

	I broke my arm trying to fold a bed.  It wasn't the kind that folds.

	I broke a leg one time...  Spilled coffee all over.

	I lost a button hole today.  Where am I gonna find another one?

	I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn't have to wait for it to age.

	I saw a man with a wooden leg, and a real foot.

	I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.

	A wino asked me for change...  I gave him my shirt.

	Factorials were someone's attempt to make math *look* exciting.

	I took a baby shower.

	I used to be a bartender at the Betty Ford Clinic.

	I washed mud, off of mud.

	How young can you die of old age?

	If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

	If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?

	I used to be a narrator for bad mimes.

	On the other hand...  You have different fingers.

	I can levitate birds.  No one cares.

	Women...  Can't live with 'em...  Can't shoot 'em.

	If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the
	money go?

	If the pen is mightier than the sword, in a duel I'll let you
	have the pen!

	What do batteries run on?

	Are there any questions?

	I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from 
	the statues that are in all the other museums.

	When I die, I'm leaving my body to science fiction. 

	Smoking cures weight problems... eventually...

	I bought some powdered water... but I don't what to add to it.

	I washed mud, off of mud.

	Four years ago...No, it was yesterday. 

	Today I...No, that wasn't me. 

	Sometimes I...No, I don't.

	Is "tired old cliche" one? 

	I read the dictionary once. I thought it was the world's longest poem.
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--- miscellaneous ---

	I was cleaning out my closet and I found a swim suit that I had
	made out of sponges.  I remember one time when I wore it.  When
	I got out of the swimming pool nobody could go swimming until I
	came back.

	I bought one of those little glass ball things with the snow in
	it.  You know, you turn it upside down then you turn it back and
	it starts to snow.  I bought one, except this has a snow plow
	that does it in rows.

	(Later:)  I bought one of those little glass ball things with
	the snow in it...  Just checking.

	I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer
	thinks he can get me five.

	I like candy canes; they're my favorite candy.  But I only like
	the white part.

	My uncle's an airline pilot...  Kinda makes it difficult to hold
	the bottle though.

	My grandma says she has eyes in the back of her head...  I hope
	it's not hereditary.

	Why is it, "A penny for your thoughts," but, "you have to put
	your two cents in?"  Somebody's making a penny.

	My dental hygienist is cute.  Every time I visit, I eat a whole
	package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby.  Sometimes
	she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon's appointments.

	The other day when I was walking through the woods, I saw a
	rabbit standing in front of a candle making shadows of people on
	a tree.

	I had a dream that all the victims of The Pill came back...
	Boy, were they mad!

	The Stones, I love the Stones.  I watch them whenever I can.
	Fred, Barney...

	I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and
	act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit.

	It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room
	temperature.

	I have two very rare photographs.  One is a picture of Houdini
	locking his keys in his car.  The other is a rare photograph of
	Norman Rockwell beating up a child.

	I went to the eye doctor and found out I needed glasses for
	reading.  So, I got some flip-up contact lenses.

	Winny would spend all of his time practicing limbo.  He got
	pretty good.  He could go under a rug.

	I accidentally shot my father-in-law while deer hunting.  It was
	an honest mistake.  I came out of the tent in the morning and
	thought I saw a deer in an orange vest making coffee.

	I filled out an application that said, "In Case Of Emergency
	Notify".  I wrote "Doctor"...  What's my mother going to do?

	I had just received my degree in Calcium Anthropology...  The
	study of milkmen.

	I can't wait to be arrested and go all the way to the witness
	stand.  "Do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but
	the truth so help you, God?"  "Yes, you're ugly.  See that women
	in the jury?  I'd really like to sleep with her.  Should I keep
	going or are you going to ask me questions?"

	Today I was arrested for scalping low numbers at the deli.  I
	sold a #3 for 28 bucks.

	I stayed up all night playing poker with Tarot cards.  I got a
	full house and four people died.

	I was walking down the street and saw a sign on a post.  It
	said:  "Lost -- $50.  If found, just keep it."

	I bought a cheap piece of land...  It was on someone else's
	property.

	The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you
	get up in the morning and doesn't stop until you get to work.

	The sun got confused about daylight savings time.  It rose
	twice.  Everything had two shadows.

	Some people think George is weird, because he has sideburns
	behind his ears.  I think George is weird, because he has false
	teeth.  With braces on them.  George is a radio announcer, and
	when he walks under a bridge...  You can't hear him talk.

	When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had
	any firearms with me.  I said, "Well, what do you need?"

	I saw a sign at a gas station.  It said "Help Wanted."  There
	was another sign below it that said "Self Service."  So I hired
	myself.  Then I made myself the boss.  I gave myself a raise.  I
	paid myself.  Then I quit.

	Last week the candle factory burned down.  Everyone just stood
	around and sang Happy Birthday.

	In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the
	roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

	Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that
	he just whipped out a quarter?

	I'm kinda tired.  I was up all night trying to round off
	infinity.  Then I got bored and went out and painted passing
	lines on curved roads.

	This is my impression of a bowling ball...  (Drags the mike
	along the floor, then lifts it...)  Gutter...

	I was watching the Superbowl with my 92 year old grandfather.
	The team scored a touchdown.  They showed the instant replay.
	He thought they scored another one.  I was gonna tell him, but I
	figured the game *he* was watching was better.

	I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on 
	and went to sleep. Then the record got stuck. The next day I 
	could only stutter in Spanish.

	I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a
	kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded."

	I wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear my liver on my pant leg.

	I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It 
	was in the shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, 
	but they weren't included. So I had to buy them again. 

	I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... 
	Boy With Pail... Kitten On Fire.  

	Yesterday I told a chicken to cross the road. It said, 
	"what for?"

	Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. 
	It told me it was none of my business.

	Yesterday I found out what doughnuts are for. You put them on 
	doughbolts. They hold dough airplanes together. For kids, they 
	make erector sets out of play-dough.

	I once tried to commit suicide by jumping off a building...I 
	changed my mind at the last minute, so I just flipped over 
	and landed on my feet. Two little kittens nearby saw what 
	happened and one turned to the other and said, "See, that's 
	how it's done." 

	I don't like the sound of my phone ringing so I put my 
	phone inside my fish tank. I can't hear it, but every time 
	I get a call I see the fish go like this (body jerks and 
	shakes). I go down to the pet store -- "Gimme another ten 
	guppies, I got a lotta calls yesterday."

	You know how it is when you're walking up the stairs, and you 
	get to the top, and you think there's one more step? I'm like 
	that all the time.

	You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling 
	asleep, you're reading, reading... And all of a sudden you 
	notice your eyes are closed?  I'm like that all the time.  

	Well, you know when you're rocking in a rocking chair, and 
	you go so far that you almost fall over backwards, but at the 
	last instant you catch yourself? I'm like that all the time.   

	You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a 
	psychology experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think 
	maybe that's part of the experiment? I'm like that all the time.

	In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends 
	with a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.   
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Thanks to Loren Scott and Donald Lehnhoff for supplying me with some jokes I did not have.

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