Stolfo’s observations and questions
of life:
(Additional worthy contributions are sought.)


- Al
Gore invented Global Warming.
- Too
many broths spoil the cook.
- My hair
is prematurely gray.
- The
part of a man that improves with age is his imagination.
- Not
knowing you have a choice is worse than not having a choice.
- Education
is a cure for ignorance, not stupidity.
- Why
didn’t God get tenure? He only had one publication.
- Why do
we press harder on a remote control when we know the batteries
are getting weak?
- Why do
banks charge a fee on "insufficient funds" when they know there
aren’t enough funds?
- Understanding Engineers
- Signs seen around town.
- Sleep
is nothing but a Caffeine substitute.
- There
are two kinds of pilots. There are old pilots. There are bold pilots. But
there are no old, bold pilots.
- Gardening
Rule: When weeding, the best way to distinguish between a weed and a
valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out easily, it was a valuable
plant.
- The
easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a
replacement.
- Never
take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway.
- There
are two kinds of pedestrians:-- The Quick and the
Dead.
- An
unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
- Health
is merely the slowest possible rate at which to die.
- The
only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
- Give a
person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach that person to use the Internet
and he won't bother you for weeks on end.
- In the
'60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird
and people take Prozac to make it normal.
- How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but
it takes a whole box of them to start a campfire?
- The
most powerful force in human nature is inertia.
- The
first law of Thermodynamics in academia is the conservation of inertia.
- A No
answer is acceptable, no answer is unacceptable.
- Those
who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine.
- A
backward poet writes inverse.
- A
man's home is his castle, in a manor of
speaking.
- Dijon
vu - the same mustard as before.
- Practice
safe eating - always use condiments
- Shotgun
wedding: A case of wife or death.
- A
hangover is the wrath of grapes
- Dancing
cheek-to-cheek is really a form of floor play.
- Does
the name Pavlov ring a bell?
- Condoms
should be used on every conceivable occasion.
- Reading
while sunbathing makes you well red.
- When
two egotists meet, it's an I for an I
- A
bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two
tired.
- What's
the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway.)
- In
democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes.
- She
was engaged to a boyfriend with a wooden leg but broke it off
- A
chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
- If you
don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.
- With
her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.
- When a
clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.
- The
man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
- You
feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
- Local
Area Network in Australia: the LAN
down under.
- He
often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
- Every
calendar's days are numbered.
- A lot
of money is tainted - It taint yours and it taint mine.
- A
boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
- He had
a photographic memory that was never developed.
- A
plateau is a high form of flattery.
- A
midget fortune-teller who escapes from prison is a small medium at large.
- Those
who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
- Once
you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.
- Bakers
trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.
- Santa's
helpers are subordinate clauses.
- Acupuncture
is a jab well done.
- Does a
clean house indicate that there is a broken computer in it?
- How
come we never hear any father-in-law jokes?
- ~4
year old driving in a car with his dad: "Dad, where are all the 'GO'
signs?"
- (2003
ALCS) Whose curse is worse? Chicago or Boston?
- A favorite
oxymoron: I just submitted my First Final draft of my thesis.
- The
core problem of life: Those who hurt you are the ones you love.
- The
core problem of computer security: Those who hurt you are the ones you
trust.
- Think
BEFORE you click send.
- Wife
to husband: "Do people ever really change?"; Husband to wife:
"Yes, when they decompose."
- A
10-year old, 4th grader's report on soda: "Soda in school? Awesome.
Soda is liquid candy. It is well known soda rots your teeth and gives you
stomach eggs. But you can make a lot of money on the sales."
- A
visitor to Rome: Rome has 6 million residents, 2 million cars, and 1
million parking spaces.
- A
resident of Rome: Rome has 3 million residents, 4 million cars, 2 million
cellular phones, and 500,000 parking spaces.
- You
can't trust dogs to watch your food.
- Never
sneeze when someone is cutting your hair.
- Puppies
still have bad breath even after eating a tic tac.
- Raising
teenagers is like nailing Jell-o to a tree.
- Reason
to smile: Every seven minutes of every day, someone in an aerobics class
pulls a hamstring.
- Families
are like fudge, mostly sweet with a few nuts.
- Today's
mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
- The
more you complain, the longer God lets you live.
- Banging
your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
- If you
yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough
sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
- If you
can remain calm, you just don't have all the facts.
- Life's
golden age is when the kids are too old to need baby-sitters.
- You
know it is time to reassess your relationship with your computer when you
laugh at people with 28.8 modems.
- And if
that is not enough, you ought to know it is time to reassess your
relationship with your computer when you start using smileys :-) in your
snail mail.
- You
have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then
used against you.
- I
wonder how much deeper would the ocean be without sponges.
- Despite
the high cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
- Nothing
is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
- Tell
me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
- Accept
that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.
- I
don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
- If at
first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
- Money
can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live with.
- Nothing
in the known universe travels faster than a bad check.
- But...bills
travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.
- Vital
papers will demonstrate their vitality by moving from where you left them
to where you can't find them.
- Always
remember to pillage BEFORE you burn.
- The
trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody
appreciates how difficult it was.
- It may
be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as warning to others.
- Ray's
Law: You can't fall off the floor.
- Paranoids
are people too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but
if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.
- Eagles
may soar, but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines.
- If at
first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
- A
conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
- Experience
is something you don't get until just after you need it.
- For
every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
- Success
always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
- To succeed
in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
- You
never really learn to swear until you learn to drive.
- The
sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
- A
clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
- If you
must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
- Change
is inevitable....except from vending machines.
- Plan
to be spontaneous tomorrow.
- Hard
work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
- Borrow
money from pessimists-they don't expect it back.
- If you
mixed vodka with orange juice and milk of magnesia, would you get a
Phillip's Screwdriver?
- Why do
we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?
- Do
infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
- If a
pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
- If
being disgruntled means being unhappy, does that mean a gruntled person is happy?
- Why do
women wear evening gowns to nightclubs? Shouldn't they be wearing night
gowns?
- If
love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?
- When
someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts," and you put your
two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
- Why is
the man who invests all your money called a broker?
- If a
vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?
- Why do
croutons come in airtight packages? It's just stale bread to begin with.
- When
cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?
- Why
does a ship carry cargo and a truck carry shipments?
- Why is
a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a
race car not called a racist?
- Why
are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
- Why do
overlook and oversee mean opposite things?
- If
horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible?
- Why
isn't 11 pronounced onety one?
- "I
am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language.
Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?
- If
lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that
electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models
deposed, tree surgeons debarked and drycleaners depressed?
- Do
Roman paramedics refer to IV's as "4's"?
- Why is
it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the
universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint
you will have to touch it to be sure?
- If
people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't people from
Holland called "Holes?"
- Some
people would give their right arm to be ambidextrous.
- I almost
had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
- OK, so
what's the speed of dark?
- Bacteria,
they're the only culture some people have.
- Depression
is merely anger without enthusiasm.
- The
only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes.
- Everyone
has a photographic memory. Some don't have film.
- Shin:
a device for finding furniture in the dark.
- Many
people quit looking for work when they find a job.
- I
intend to live forever-so far, so good.
- If
Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
- I
drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
- I love
defenseless animals, especially in a good gravy.
- If I
worked as much as others, I would do as little as they.
- What
happens if you get scared half to death twice?
- My
mechanic couldn't repair my brakes, so he made my horn louder.
- Why do
psychics have to ask you for your name?
- He who
hesitates is probably right.
- Never
do card tricks for the group you play poker with.
- The
hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
- The
severity of the itch is proportional to the reach.
- Two
wrongs are only the beginning.
- The
problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
- Don't
sweat petty things....or pet sweaty things.
- If you
think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
- Love
may be blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.
- Attempt
to get a new car for your spouse - it'll be a great trade!
- Everybody
repeat after me....."We are all individuals."
- I'd
kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
- Death to
all fanatics!
- Half
the people you know are below average.
- 99
percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
- 42.7
percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
- He who
laughs last, thinks slowest
- Why
did the chicken cross the road? Well, Click here to find out what some famous people think!
- Just
in time for Y2K.
- Word smIthing from the Washington Post.
- Some new
concerns for the Baby Boomer Generation. Click
here to find out!
- Some recent cute bumper stickers
seen around Washington, D.C. lately.
- Some true stories from the desktops
of the HELP DESK!
- (Paraphrased
and actual) Conversation by a group of 11-year old boys sitting in a car
on a long boring ride: "Doo-doo, chips, dung, dump, fecal matter,
feces, excrement, BM, bowel movement, doodey,
poo-poo"
They came up with 19 words...I can't remember them all...I was laughing
too hard after they asked:
"So if there are so many ways to say BM that are ok to say, then why
can't you say 'The S Word'?"