HUMOR Digest - 26 Mar 1999 to 27 Mar 1999

Date: Fri, 26 Mar 1999 03:37:30 -0500
From: Jim Moore Jr
Subject: Two from the Archives

There's a rich resource available in our HumorList Archives. In addition to the current 1999 Digests, copies are available of 1996-1998 mailings. The URL's are listed daily in my posts.

              Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 09:01:07 -0500
             From: Gwen Eckman [fool@UDEL.EDU]
          Subject: Malapropisms

- He's a wolf in cheap clothing
- It was a case of love at Versailles
- He's got one of those sight-seeing dogs
- In Algiers, they spend most of their time at the cash bar
- My sister has extra-century perception
- A fool and his money are some party
- All's fear in love and war
- Nip it in the butt
- Some viruses can lie doormat for years
- To each his zone
- Michelangelo painted the Sixteenth Chapel
- No more negotiating - it's a dumb deal
- It's a long road to hold
- All I want from you kids is a little piece of quiet

                  --from Reader's Digest
                     December 1993

              Date: Sun, 5 Nov 1995 10:33:23 -0500
             From: "Ken Brousseau Sr." [Kbrousseau@AOL.COM]
          Subject: Fame vs Impatience

Long on egotism but short on cash, the young actor was trying to talk his impatient landlord into waiting for the rent. "In a few years," he said, "people will point to this apartment and say 'Jones the famous actor, once lived there.' "

"If I don't get my rent tonight," said the landlord, "they'll be able to say it tomorrow."

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