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 |  |  | #5997 |  | "Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time." -- Steven Wright
 
 |  |  |  | #5998 |  | Rincewind formed a mental picture of some strange entity living in a castle made of teeth.  It was the kind of mental picture you tried to forget.
 Unsuccessfully.
 -- Terry Pratchett, "The Light Fantastic"
 
 |  |  |  | #5999 |  | Romeo wasn't bilked in a day. -- Walt Kelly, "Ten Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Years With Pogo"
 
 |  |  |  | #6000 |  | Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
 -- Dave Barry, "Sex and the Single Amoeba: What Every
 Teen Should Know"
 
 |  |  |  | #6001 |  | Showing up is 80% of life. -- Woody Allen
 
 |  |  |  | #6002 |  | Some of you ... may have decided that, this year, you're going to celebrate it the old-fashioned way, with your family sitting around stringing
 cranberries and exchanging humble, handmade gifts, like on "The Waltons".
 Well, you can forget it.  If everybody pulled that kind of subversive stunt,
 the economy would collapse overnight.  The government would have to
 intervene: it would form a cabinet-level Department of Holiday Gift-Giving,
 which would spend billions and billions of tax dollars to buy Barbie dolls
 and electronic games, which it would drop on the populace from Air Force
 jets, killing and maiming thousands.  So, for the good of the nation, you
 should go along with the Holiday Program.  This means you should get a large
 sum of money and go to a mall.
 -- Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide"
 
 |  |  |  | #6003 |  | SOMETIMES THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD is so overwhelming, I just want to throw back my head and gargle.  Just gargle and gargle and I don't care who hears
 me because I am beautiful.
 -- Jack Handley, The New Mexican, 1988.
 
 |  |  |  | #6004 |  | Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future. -- Pogo, by Walt Kelly
 
 |  |  |  | #6005 |  | The basic idea behind malls is that they are more convenient than cities. Cities contain streets, which are dangerous and crowded and difficult to
 park in.  Malls, on the other hand, have parking lots, which are also
 dangerous and crowded and difficult to park in, but -- here is the big
 difference -- in mall parking lots, THERE ARE NO RULES.  You're allowed to
 do anything.  You can drive as fast as you want in any direction you want.
 I was once driving in a mall parking lot when my car was struck by a pickup
 truck being driven backward by a squat man with a tattoo that said "Charlie"
 on his forearm, who got out and explained to me, in great detail, why the
 accident was my fault, his reasoning being that he was violent and muscular,
 whereas I was neither.  This kind of reasoning is legally valid in mall
 parking lots.
 -- Dave Barry, "Christmas Shopping: A Survivor's Guide"
 
 |  |  |  | #6006 |  | The best cure for insomnia is to get a  lot of sleep. -- W. C. Fields
 
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