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1. Aging: eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

2. The easiest way to find something that's lost around the house is to buy a replacement.

3. If at first you don't succeed, shouldn't you try doing it like your wife told you?

4. A penny saved is a government oversight.

5. The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

6. He who hesitates is almost certainly right.

Things from the web, various sites.
Unfollowryanross writes:
If you ever feel bad about yourself, just remember this one time in my english class, we were writing horror stories and one of the girls wrote "it was Friday the 13th, the night before Halloween" for her opening sentence.

T-mom writes:
Get in the Halloween Spirit and make a ghost!
slightmahem replies:
That's called murder and I heard somewhere that is illegal.

In Indonesia, a person points with their thumb as it’s considered very rude to point with a forefinger.

The Bahai People of Iran have their own calendar consisting of nineteen months each with nineteen days.

I was cycling through a golf course that is under renovation. I came across a ball washer, it looked like this. https://fmwdistinct.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/500x/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/j/u/justb4teenewweb2.jpg

The word dandelion comes from an old French word dentdelion meaning tooth of the Lion, in reference to the jagged edges on the leaves of the plant.

Since 1978, there have been 37 recorded incidents of people getting killed by vending machines. In all of the cases people shook the machines to get free merchandise or money, and the machines fell on them.

I know it must be easier to at least meet people online and try dating, unlike years ago when you had to actually seek out places that a person with the qualities you are looking for might be. (Was that a run on sentence? I think it was a run on sentence). But maybe I should stop living in 1997 and see what I can do to earn some money. Judging by advertisements, there seems to be a huge school of fish in the sea, just waiting to hook that special someone.