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- From: dleslie@phakt.usc.edu (David Leslie)
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- Subject: deep thoughts
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 17:03:47 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Deep Thoughts
- by
- Jack Handey
- ---
- I think people tend to forget that trees are living creatures. They're sort
- of like dogs. Huge, quiet, motionless dogs, with bark instead of fur.
-
- When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd
- all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us.
- It wasn't until later that I found out that Uncle Caveman was a bear.
-
- If you go parachuting, and your parachute doesn't open, and your friends are
- all watching you fall, I think a funny gag would be to pretend you were
- swimming.
-
- Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct
- is to laugh. But then I think, what if I was an ant, and she fell on me.
- Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.
-
- If you're a young Mafia gangster out on your first date, I bet it's real
- embarrassing if someone tries to kill you.
-
- As the evening sky faded from a salmon color to a sort of flint gray, I
- thought back to the salmon I caught that morning, and how gray he was, and
- how I named him Flint.
-
- I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town,
- we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad.
-
- We used to laugh at Grandpa when he'd head off and go fishing. But we
- wouldn't be laughing that evening when he'd come back with some whore he
- picked up in town.
-
- Laurie got offended that I used the word "puke." But to me, that's what her
- dinner tasted like.
-
- If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked
- dolphins the most? I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you? You'd be wrong, though.
- It's Hambone.
-
- One thing kids like is to be tricked. For instance, I was going to take my
- little nephew to DisneyLand, but instead I drove him to an old burned-out
- warehouse. "Oh, no," I said, "DisneyLand burned down." He cried and cried,
- but I think that deep down he thought it was a pretty good joke. I started
- to drive over to the real DisneyLand, but it was getting pretty late.
-
- As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it
- should read "Watch for Pretty Rocks." I told her she should write in her
- suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke -
- just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!
-
- Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is
- not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an
- elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
-
- If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is
- "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to
- tell him is "Probably because of something you did."
-
- The memories of my family outings are still a source of strength to me. I
- remember we'd all pile into the car - I forget what kind it was - and drive
- and drive. I'm not sure where we'd go, but I think there were some trees
- there. The smell of something was strong in the air as we played whatever
- sport we played. I remember a bigger, older guy we called "Dad." We'd eat
- some stuff, or not, and then I think we went home. I guess some things
- never leave you.
-
- He was a cowboy, mister, and he loved the land. He loved it so much he made
- a woman out of dirt and married her. But when he kissed her, she
- disintegrated. Later, at the funeral, when the preacher said, "Dust to dust,"
- some people laughed, and the cowboy shot them. At his hanging, he told the
- others, "I'll be waiting for you in heaven--with a gun."
-
- Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someones neck,
- and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what
- is that thing.
-
- I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet
- you can really see it in those genitals.
-
- If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you'll
- look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.
-
- If you ever teach a yodeling class, probably the hardest thing is to keep the
- students from just trying to yodel right off. You see, we build to that.
-
- If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right
- back on you, I think you should buck him off right away.
-
- Sometimes when I feel like killing someone, I do a little trick to calm myself
- down. I'll go over to the persons house and ring the doorbell. When the
- person comes to the door, I'm gone, but you know what I've left on the porch?
- A jack-o-lantern with a knife stuck in the side of it's head with a note that
- says "You." After that I usually feel a lot better, and no harm done.
-
- You know what would make a good story? Something about a clown who makes
- people happy, but inside he's real sad. Also, he has severe diarrhea.
-
- Better not take a dog on the space shuttle, because if he sticks his head
- out when you're coming home his face might burn up.
-
- If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We
- might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
-
- Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted
- brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look
- like a deer.
-
- As I bit into the nectarine, it had a crisp juiciness about it that was very
- pleasurable - until I realized it wasn't a nectarine at all, but A HUMAN HEAD!!
-
- To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered
- where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus,
- and a clown killed my dad.
-
- I think someone should have had the decency to tell me the luncheon was free.
- To make someone run out with potato salad in his hand, pretending he's
- throwing up, is not what I call hospitality.
-
- Probably the earliest flyswatters were nothing more than some sort of striking
- surface attached to the end of a long stick.
-
- We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them
- personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.
-
- What is it that makes a complete stranger dive into an icy river to save a
- solid gold baby? Maybe we'll never know.
-
- To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and
- the dancers hit each other.
-
- When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they
- ever press charges.
-
- I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture,
- is the story of Popeye.
-
- If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming
- and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I am a
- coward.
-
- If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came
- up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea
- to say, "I swallowed it. So sue me."
-
- I'd rather be rich than stupid.
-
- Ambition is like a frog sitting on a Venus Flytrap. The flytrap can bite and
- bite, but it won't bother the frog because it only has little tiny plant teeth.
- But some other stuff could happen and it could be like ambition.
-
- The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
-
- I bet the main reason the police keep people away from a plane crash is they
- don't want anybody walking in and lying down in the crash stuff, then, when
- somebody comes up, act like they just woke up and go, "What was THAT?!"
-
- I guess we were all guilty, in a way. We all shot him, we all skinned him,
- and we all got a complimentary bumper sticker that said, "I helped skin Bob."
-
- It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.
-
- I hope if dogs ever take over the world, and they chose a king, they don't
- just go by size, because I bet there are some Chihuahuas with some good ideas.
-
- Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself:
- "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words - "mank" and "ind".
- What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-
- Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why
- several of us died of tuberculosis.
-
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