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A Collection of Unrelated Thoughts -- Volume 45




Contrary to what some people (especially feminists) seem to believe, pornography is not a misogynistic mi·sog·y·nis·tic   also mi·sog·y·nous
adj.
Of or characterized by a hatred of women.

Adj. 1. misogynistic - hating women in particular
misogynous

ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
 pastime.         

 


When someone withholds information from you, it's always for a reason -- usually a bad one.  

 


Whenever a local TV news personality leaves his or her job at the station involuntarily, the other on-air personnel will almost always be directed by station management to remain silent on the issue and act as if that person never existed. I guess this is done for legal reasons.


Father: "Son, what do you want to do for a living when you grow up?"

Son: "When I grow up, I want to act."

Father: "Like what?"


When I went to the podiatrist Podiatrist
A physician who specializes in the medical care and treatment of the human foot.

Mentioned in: Shin Splints

podiatrist 
 the other day, I told him that the calluses on my feet made me feel as if I had rocks in my shoes. He replied, "Maybe they fell out of your head."

 


Before becoming angry about something, first make sure there's actually something to get angry about.

 


Anything negative you say about your opponent(s) in a primary can and will be used against you or them in the general election.

 


It seems inevitable that you'll occasionally run smack dab into the very thing or person you most want to avoid.


I've always liked to wear flannel shirts during the fall and winter. But now I can no longer find any of them made from 100% acrylic. I won't buy the cotton ones, as I prefer shirts that I can still wear after I have washed them.         

 


We all know people who never have money for paying bills or other legitimate expenses, but always seem to have plenty to spend on frivolity Frivolity
Blondie

the gaffe-prone, frivolous wife of Dagwood Bumstead. [Comics: Horn, 118]

Dobson, Zuleika

charming young lady who unconcernedly dazzles Oxford undergraduates. [Br. Lit.
.  

 


Don't try to tell me the FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S.  is intent on curbing TV indecency INDECENCY. An act against good behaviour and a just delicacy. 2 Serg. & R. 91.
     2. The law, in general, will repress indecency as being contrary to good morals, but, when the public good requires it, the mere indecency of disclosures does not suffice to exclude
 when the no TV station has ever been fined for its airing of The Jerry Springer Show.


Of the four franchises that came over to the NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there  from the World Hockey Association “WHA” redirects here. For other uses, see WHA (disambiguation).
The World Hockey Association (French: Association Mondiale de Hockey) was a professional ice hockey league that operated in North America from 1972 to 1979.
 (WHA WHA World Health Assembly
WHA World Hockey Association (merged with the National Hockey League in 1970s)
WHA Western Hemisphere Affairs (US Department of State)
WHA World Headache Alliance
), three of them have relocated since the merger. The Quebec Nordiques are now the Colorado Avalanche; the Winnipeg Jets are now the Phoenix Coyotes; and the New England Whalers Whalers may mean:
  • Whaling, for information on sailors who hunt whales
  • Hartford Whalers, a former/future hockey team
  • Plymouth Whalers, a current hockey team in the Ontario Hockey League
  • Eden Whalers, an Australian Rules Football team.
 are now the Carolina Hurricanes. Only the Edmonton Oilers remain in their original WHA venue.


Answer: Iowa Carcasses.

Question: What do you call presidential candidates who don't perform well in the Iowa Caucuses?

 


If you don't have caller ID, the best way to avoid nuisance phone calls is to hang up if the caller doesn't start talking immediately after you answer. Calls made by computers or other machines will generally produce a delay of a second or two.

 


Time spent claiming one doesn't have time do a given job could be better used actually doing it.

 


Trouble rarely comes at a time when one is expecting it.

 

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