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| #6794 |  | Why I Can't Go Out With You: 
 I'd LOVE to, but ...
 -- I have to floss my cat.
 -- I've dedicated my life to linguini.
 -- I need to spend more time with my blender.
 -- it wouldn't be fair to the other Beautiful People.
 -- it's my night to pet the dog/ferret/goldfish.
 -- I'm going downtown to try on some gloves.
 -- I have to check the freshness dates on my dairy products.
 -- I'm going down to the bakery to watch the buns rise.
 -- I have an appointment with a cuticle specialist.
 -- I have some really hard words to look up.
 -- I've got a Friends of the Lowly Rutabaga meeting.
 -- I promised to help a friend fold road maps.
 
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| #6795 |  | Why I Can't Go Out With You: 
 I'd LOVE to, but...
 -- I have to answer all of my "occupant" letters.
 -- None of my socks match.
 -- I'm having all my plants neutered.
 -- I changed the lock on my door and now I can't get out.
 -- My yucca plant is feeling yucky.
 -- I'm touring China with a wok band.
 -- My chocolate-appreciation class meets that night.
 -- I'm running off to Yugoslavia with a foreign-exchange student
 named Basil Metabolism.
 -- There are important world issues that need worrying about.
 -- I'm going to count the bristles in my toothbrush.
 -- I prefer to remain an enigma.
 -- I think you want the OTHER Peggy/Cathy/Mike/whomever.
 -- I feel a song coming on.
 
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| #6796 |  | Why I Can't Go Out With You: 
 I'd LOVE to, but...
 -- I have to draw "Cubby" for an art scholarship.
 -- I have to sit up with a sick ant.
 -- I'm trying to be less popular.
 -- My bathroom tiles need grouting.
 -- I'm waiting to see if I'm already a winner.
 -- My subconscious says no.
 -- I just picked up a book called "Glue in Many Lands" and I
 can't seem to put it down.
 -- My favorite commercial is on TV.
 -- I have to study for my blood test.
 -- I've been traded to Cincinnati.
 -- I'm having my baby shoes bronzed.
 -- I have to go to court for kitty littering.
 
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| #6797 |  | Why I Can't Go Out With You: 
 I'd LOVE to, but...
 -- I'm trying to see how long I can go without saying yes.
 -- I'm attending the opening of my garage door.
 -- The monsters haven't turned blue yet, and I have to eat more dots.
 -- I'm converting my calendar watch from Julian to Gregorian.
 -- I have to fulfill my potential.
 -- I don't want to leave my comfort zone.
 -- It's too close to the turn of the century.
 -- I have to bleach my hare.
 -- I'm worried about my vertical hold knob.
 -- I left my body in my other clothes.
 
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| #6798 |  | Why I Can't Go Out With You: 
 I'd LOVE to, but...
 -- I've got a Friends of the Lowly Rutabaga meeting.
 -- I promised to help a friend fold road maps.
 -- I've been scheduled for a karma transplant.
 -- I'm staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture.
 -- It's my parakeet's bowling night.
 -- I'm building a plant from a kit.
 -- There's a disturbance in the Force.
 -- I'm doing door-to-door collecting for static cling.
 -- I'm teaching my ferret to yodel.
 -- My crayons all melted together.
 
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| #6799 |  | "Why must you tell me all your secrets when it's hard enough to love you knowing nothing?"
 -- Lloyd Cole and the Commotions
 
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| #6800 |  | Without love intelligence is dangerous; without intelligence love is not enough.
 -- Ashley Montagu
 
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| #6801 |  | Wouldn't this be a great world if being insecure and desperate were a turn-on? -- "Broadcast News"
 
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| #6802 |  | Yeah, there are more important things in life than money, but they won't go out with you if you don't have any.
 
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| #6803 |  | You shouldn't have to pay for your love with your bones and your flesh. -- Pat Benatar, "Hell is for Children"
 
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