{"id":165,"date":"2005-02-08T10:36:51","date_gmt":"2005-02-08T17:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2005-02-08T10:36:51","modified_gmt":"2005-02-08T17:36:51","slug":"now-with-his-own-laugh-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2005\/02\/08\/now-with-his-own-laugh-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Now with his own laugh track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My dad sent me an email of taglines from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevenwright.com\/a_word\/index.shtml\">Steven Wright<\/a>.  Surprisingly, I hadn&#8217;t heard some of them, and some of them are quite hilarious.  Hence, listed here for your reading pleasures.<\/p>\n<p>(I was going to pick and choose, but I&#8217;m lazy and quite tired today, so I&#8217;ll just list all of them.)<\/p>\n<p>1 &#8211; I&#8217;d kill for a Nobel Peace Prize .<\/p>\n<p>2 &#8211; Borrow money from pessimists &#8212; they don&#8217;t expect it back.<\/p>\n<p>3 &#8211; Half the people you know are below average.<\/p>\n<p>4 &#8211; 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.<\/p>\n<p>5 &#8211; 42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.<\/p>\n<p>6 &#8211; A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.<\/p>\n<p>7 &#8211; A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.<\/p>\n<p>8 &#8211; If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.<\/p>\n<p>9 &#8211; All those who believe in psycho-kinesis, raise my hand.<\/p>\n<p>10 &#8211; The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.<\/p>\n<p>11 &#8211; I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.<\/p>\n<p>12 &#8211; OK, so what&#8217;s the speed of dark?<\/p>\n<p>13 &#8211; How do you tell when you&#8217;re out of invisible ink?<\/p>\n<p>14 &#8211; If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.<\/p>\n<p>15 &#8211; Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.<\/p>\n<p>16 &#8211; When everything is coming your way, you&#8217;re in the wrong lane.<\/p>\n<p>17 &#8211; Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.<\/p>\n<p>18 &#8211; Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.<\/p>\n<p>19 &#8211; I intend to live forever &#8212; so far, so good.<\/p>\n<p>20 &#8211; If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?<\/p>\n<p>21 &#8211; Eagles may soar, but weasels don&#8217;t get sucked into jet engines.<\/p>\n<p>22 &#8211; What happens if you get scared half to death twice?<\/p>\n<p>23 &#8211; My mechanic told me, &#8220;I couldn&#8217;t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>24 &#8211; Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?<\/p>\n<p>25 &#8211; If at first you don&#8217;t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.<\/p>\n<p>26 &#8211; A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.<\/p>\n<p>27 &#8211; Experience is something you don&#8217;t get until just after you need it.<\/p>\n<p>28 &#8211; The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.<\/p>\n<p>29 &#8211; To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.<\/p>\n<p>30 &#8211; The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.<\/p>\n<p>31 &#8211; The sooner you fall behind, the more time you&#8217;ll have to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>32 &#8211; The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.<\/p>\n<p>33 &#8211; Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don&#8217;t have film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My dad sent me an email of taglines from Steven Wright. Surprisingly, I hadn&#8217;t heard some of them, and some of them are quite hilarious. Hence, listed here for your reading pleasures. (I was going to pick and choose, but I&#8217;m lazy and quite tired today, so I&#8217;ll just list all of them.) 1 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}