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 ''Varlet and the Squeaking Codpieces'' would be an excellent name for a rock band.

 ''You kids are just going to miss out on all the AAIIIEEE.'' This is the noise you make when you pick up a splinter the size of a harpoon.

 'Escargot' is French for 'fat crawling bag of phlegm'.

 1996 also saw a huge expansion of the Internet, with many major corporations, afraid of being left behind, spending hundreds of millions of dollars to develop World Wide Web sites in a frantic scramble to reach the vast new consumer market of Web use

 A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.

 A full-grown manatee, which can weigh more than 1,000 pounds, looks like the result of a genetic experiment involving a walrus and the Goodyear Blimp.

 A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.

 A Mission Statement is a dense slab of words that a large organization produces when it needs to establish that its workers are not just sitting around downloading Internet porn

 A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person

 Admit it, sport-utility-vehicle owners! It's shaped a little differently, but it's a station wagon! And you do not drive it across rivers! You drive it across the Wal-Mart parking lot!

 All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required

 All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.

 Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

 American business long ago gave up on demanding that prospective employees be honest and hardworking. It has even stopped hoping for employees who are educated enough that they can tell the difference between the men's room and the women's room without having little pictures on the doors.

 American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.


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