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 |  |  | #5977 |  | It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa. -- Groucho Marx
 
 |  |  |  | #5978 |  | It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. -- Woody Allen
 
 |  |  |  | #5979 |  | Last night the power went out.  Good thing my camera had a flash.... The neighbors thought it was lightning in my house, so they called the cops.
 -- Steven Wright
 
 |  |  |  | #5980 |  | Last year we drove across the country...  We switched on the driving... every half mile.  We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip.
 I don't remember what it was.
 -- Steven Wright
 
 |  |  |  | #5981 |  | Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. -- Woody Allen, "Annie Hall"
 
 |  |  |  | #5982 |  | Life is wasted on the living. -- The Restaurant at the Edge of the Universe.
 
 |  |  |  | #5983 |  | Like you,  I am frequently haunted by profound questions related to man's place in the Scheme of Things.  Here are just a few:
 
 Q -- Is there life after death?
 A -- Definitely.  I speak from personal experience here.  On New
 Year's Eve, 1970, I drank a full pitcher of a drink called "Black Russian",
 then crawled out on the lawn and died within a matter of minutes, which was
 fine with me because I had come to realize that if I had lived I would have
 spent the rest of my life in the grip of the most excruciatingly painful
 headache.  Thanks to the miracle of modern orange juice, I was brought back
 to life several days later, but in the interim I was definitely dead.  I
 guess my main impression of the afterlife is that it isn't so bad as long
 as you keep the television turned down and don't try to eat any solid foods.
 -- Dave Barry
 
 |  |  |  | #5984 |  | Man 1:	Ask me the what the most important thing about telling a good joke is. 
 Man 2:	OK, what is the most impo --
 
 Man 1:	______TIMING!
 
 |  |  |  | #5985 |  | "Many have seen Topaxci, God of the Red Mushroom, and they earn the name of shaman," he said.  Some have seen Skelde, spirit of the smoke, and
 they are called sorcerers.  A few have been privileged to see Umcherrel, the
 soul of the forest, and they are known as spirit masters.  But none have
 seen a box with hundreds of legs that looked at them without eyes, and they
 are known as idio--"
 The interruption was caused by a sudden screaming noise and a flurry
 of snow and sparks that blew the fire across the dark hut; there was a brief
 blurred vision and then the opposite wall was blasted aside and the
 apparition vanished.
 There was a long silence.  Then a slightly shorter silence.  Then
 the old shaman said carefully, "You didn't just see two men go through
 upside down on a broomstick, shouting and screaming at each other, did you?"
 The boy looked at him levelly.  "Certainly not," he said.
 The old man heaved a sigh of relief.  "Thank goodness for that," he
 said.  "Neither did I."
 -- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"
 
 |  |  |  | #5986 |  | Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon, there lived a King who was very Gloomy on Tuesday mornings because he
 was so Sad thinking about how Unhappy he had been on Monday and how
 completely Mournful he would be on Wednesday....
 -- Walt Kelly
 
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