Sunday, April 24, 2016
One liners
I found a collection of one-liners that struck me as so amusing that I jotted them down on one of the hundreds of scraps of paper I carry in my jean pockets. Then, as there wasn't much else to do with them, I shared them out with various of my co-workers and with an occasional lucky library patron as well.
I started with:
A friend told me I've been acting too much like a flamingo, so I put my foot down.
I like that one even if somehow it's not quite perfect, and I keep wanting to try and edit it. People laughed though.
No one got this one, and maybe you or I wouldn't either if we were hearing it instead of reading it:
I, for one, like roman numerals.
but either way it's frightfully clever.
I was also fond of:
Dark humor is like food, not everyone gets it.
which just goes deeper as you think of it.
But there was one of these one-liners that I'd written down and just kind of held onto. There was something a touch uncomfortable about it, and I didn't want to say it. But maybe because of that I ended up having to try it out to see how it felt:
People say I'm condescending, (leaning in) that means I talk down to people.
Perhaps it was just a tiny bit too close to home. One doesn't want people to think
"Yeah, I can see that."
Ah well...
They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian; Well they're not laughing now!
5 comments:
If you were wondering, yes, you should comment. Not only does it remind me that I must write in intelligible English because someone is actually reading what I write, but it is also a pleasure for me since I am interested in anything you have to say.
I respond to pretty much every comment. It's like a free personalized blog post!
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What if Soy milk is just regular milk introducing itself in Spanish.
ReplyDeleteHa! Nice addition!
ReplyDeleteI would never want to join any club that would accept me as a member> Groucho.
I liked the roman numeral one because it's also visual.
A classic of course! Putting one in mind of:
ReplyDeleteI have an inferiority complex, but it's not a very good one.
I may prefer Groucho's nearly as famous, and ever so importantly library related:
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend, inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
Parallel lines have so much in common but it’s a shame they’ll never meet.
ReplyDeleteOh, I know how I want to fix it:
ReplyDeleteMy friend nagged me so much about acting too much like a flamingo that I finally had to put my foot down.
fc