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Message 1175292 - Posted: 3 Dec 2011, 2:58:50 UTC


Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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Message 1175305 - Posted: 3 Dec 2011, 5:15:02 UTC

Regarding #18, I prefer to say that I am "eating for sport"
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Message 1175306 - Posted: 3 Dec 2011, 5:17:22 UTC - in response to Message 1175305.  

Regarding #18, I prefer to say that I am "eating for sport"


I tend to live by number 10.

Also, I just noticed, there is no 14 or 15 in the list. :O

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

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Message 1175311 - Posted: 3 Dec 2011, 7:01:21 UTC - in response to Message 1175306.  

Also, I just noticed, there is no 14 or 15 in the list. :O

I've found the missing two here (there's also #23 without tentacles ;-):
14. I keep some people's phone numbers in my phone just so I know not to answer when they call.

15. I think the freezer deserves a light as well.


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Message 1175350 - Posted: 3 Dec 2011, 10:48:37 UTC

One to add:
Invariably, if approaching 2 side by side doors, the one you try to open will be locked. but not the other.
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Message 1175404 - Posted: 3 Dec 2011, 16:25:58 UTC

#24: Murphy's law is the universal constant.

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Message 1175406 - Posted: 3 Dec 2011, 16:28:47 UTC

#25 No matter how much you detest her cookies, you have to buy at least one box from the Girl Scout who rings your doorbell.
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Message 1175411 - Posted: 3 Dec 2011, 16:42:57 UTC

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Message 1175416 - Posted: 3 Dec 2011, 17:13:41 UTC

#27 The phone will ring when you're in the tub.

Member of the People Encouraging Niceness In Society club.

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Message 1175417 - Posted: 3 Dec 2011, 17:17:10 UTC

#28 After searching high and low for anything you have misplaced, you always end up finding it in the last place you look.
"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

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Message 1175470 - Posted: 3 Dec 2011, 21:12:27 UTC

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Message 1175475 - Posted: 3 Dec 2011, 21:26:24 UTC - in response to Message 1175350.  

One to add:
Invariably, if approaching 2 side by side doors, the one you try to open will be locked. but not the other.


Dang if that didnt happen to me today:)

#33 You will run out of matches when you only have one cigarette left.
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Message 1175514 - Posted: 4 Dec 2011, 1:16:31 UTC

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when ever you have a big hand full of bags...your car keys are always

in the pocket on the other side of your pants
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Message 1175539 - Posted: 4 Dec 2011, 3:57:17 UTC

#35 the kids will always ask for a late glass of water when you are in the middle of..


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Message 1175755 - Posted: 5 Dec 2011, 1:47:00 UTC

#36 If your running late for work you hit every single red light on the way. If your going to the dentist for a root canal, You get every green light.
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Message 1175950 - Posted: 5 Dec 2011, 23:13:24 UTC - in response to Message 1175899.  

#37 Women love chocolate, preferably boxed, and the more expensive the better.

Unless they are on a diet - in which case, you will be wearing the box...


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Message 1176169 - Posted: 7 Dec 2011, 0:58:20 UTC

every time YOU go throw the drive throw....and order fries...they stop and make

new ones...making you wait
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Message 1176215 - Posted: 7 Dec 2011, 5:30:00 UTC

On all the mornings you don't have time to stop for a donut, there is ample parking right outside the shop.
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Message 1176224 - Posted: 7 Dec 2011, 6:29:58 UTC - in response to Message 1175950.  

in which case, you will be wearing the box...

nope!
Refer to Message 1175899, they all love chocolate, all the time.
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Message 1186077 - Posted: 18 Jan 2012, 2:45:22 UTC

Socrates comes to mind.
Or Sergeant Schultz.
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