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| Steven Wright If you're not familiar with the work of Steven Wright, he's the famous, erudite scientist/comedian who once said: "I woke up one morning and all of my stuff had been stolen...and replaced by exact duplicates." His mind sees things differently than we do, to our amazement and amusement. All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand. The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met. OK, so what's the speed of dark? How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink? If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something. Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy. Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just 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. Join the Army, meet interesting people, kill them. If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends? Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. When I'm not in my right mind, my left mind gets pretty crowded. Boycott shampoo! Demand the REAL poo! Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk? What happens if you get scared half to death twice? I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out. I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name? If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried. If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you. 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. The colder the X-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it. The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread. The severity of the itch is proportional to the reach. To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. You never really learn to swear until you learn to drive. The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life. The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. (this is one of my long time favorites) 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. A fool and his money are soon partying. Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow. If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments. Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route. I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks. Borrow money from pessimists-they don't expect it back. 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. A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
On the other hand, you have different fingers. I was sad because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted. Someone sent me a postcard picture of the earth. Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. I spilled spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. "Did you sleep well?" "No, I made a couple of mistakes." My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo My socks DO match. They're the same thickness. Officer, I know I was going faster than 55MPH, but I wasn't going to be on the I have two very rare photographs. I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it. Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. What's another word for Thesaurus? When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms You can't have everything. Where would you put it? A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer? I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it. I made a chocolate cake with white chocolate. Then I took it to a potluck. I My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, "What for?" I eat swiss cheese from the inside out. I had amnesia once or twice. I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar. I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to I plugged my phone in where the blender used to be. I called someone. They My friend Sam has one leg. I went to his house. I couldn't go up the stairs. The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus. You know how it is when you decide to lie and say the check is in the mail, and How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb? I was in the grocery store. I saw a sign that said "pet supplies". So I did. The sky already fell. Now what? I wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear my liver on my pant leg. I still have my Christmas Tree. I looked at it today. Sure enough, I couldn't If you can wave a fan, and you can wave a club, can you wave a fan club? When I was in boy scouts, I slipped on the ice and hurt my ankle. A little old If you write the word "monkey" a million times, do you start to think you're You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment Smoking cures weight problems...eventually... I had fried octopus last night. You have to be really quiet when you eat it. Yesterday I told a chicken to cross the road. It said, "what for?" I xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare. I took a course in speed waiting. Now I can wait an hour in only ten minutes. I eat swiss cheese. But I only nibble on it. I make the holes bigger. I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the porch light on all I got a garage door opener. It can't close. Just open. You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology experiment, I went over to the neighbor's and asked to borrow a cup of salt. "What are you There aren't enough days in the weekend. My friend Sally is a nudist. I went to her house. The closets have no doors. Sally plays strip poker. Whenever she loses, she has to put something on. The sky is falling...no, I'm tipping over backwards. Droughts are because god didn't pay his water bill. Is "tired old cliche" one? If you had a million Shakespeares, could they write like a monkey? If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke? It only rains straight down. God doesn't do windows. When I get bored I go to a Seven-Eleven and ask for a two-by-four and a box of The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les. Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. It told me it I rented a lottery ticket. I won a million dollars. But I had to give it In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with a period. I xeroxed my watch. Now I can give away free watches. I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine. I took a course in speed reading. Then I got Reader's Digest on microfilm. By Yesterday I found out what doughnuts are for. You put them on doughbolts. I went to a haunted house, looked under the kitchen table, and found spirit I went to a garage sale. "How much for the garage?" "It's not for sale." I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart. I know the guy who writes all those bumper stickers. He hates New York. A beautiful woman moved in next door. So I went over and returned a cup of I had my coathangers spayed. I washed a sock. Then I put it in the dryer. When I took it out, it was gone. The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa I went to a fancy french restaurant called "Deja Vu." The headwaiter said, Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle. I took lessons in bicycle riding. But I could only afford half of them. Now I I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it. I put my air conditioner in backwards. It got cold outside. The weatherman on I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a kaleidoscope. I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. Sponges grow in the ocean. That just kills me. I wonder how much deeper the I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time. It's a fine night to have an evening. Even snakes are afraid of snakes. I can't stop thinking like this. This isn't all true. You know how it is when you're walking up the stairs, and you get to the top, I put hardwood floors on top of wall-to-wall carpet. Tinsel is really snakes' mirrors. Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn't have any hands or numbers. He says I spent all my money on a FAX machine. Now I can only FAX collect. What are imitation rhinestones? If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know? If God dropped acid, would he see people? In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often It's a good thing we have gravity or else when birds died they'd just stay I wrote a few children's books...not on purpose. I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it it. Every once "So, do you live around here often?" I got up one morning, couldn't find my socks, so I called Information. She When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. [Referring to a glass of water:] A friend of mine once sent me a post card with a picture of the entire planet I'm moving to Mars next week, so if you have any boxes... It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it. Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. I went to the bank and asked to borrow a cup of money. They said, "What for?" I saw a bank that said "24 Hour Banking", but I don't have that much time. I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings... I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time". So I ordered I went to this restaurant last night that was set up like a big buffet in the I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically. I worked in a health food store once. A guy came in and asked me, "If I melt I went to a 7-11 and asked for a 2x4 and a box of 3x5's. The clerk said, I was in the grocery store. I saw a sign that said "pet supplies". So I did. I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. She said, "It's I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the Gift Wrap For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier...I put them in the same Ever notice how irons have a setting for *permanent* press? I don't get it... I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control. I invented the cordless extension cord. I saw a close friend of mine the other day... He said, "Stephen, why haven't I plugged my phone in where the blender used to be. I called someone. They Today I dialed a wrong number... The other person said, "Hello?" and I said, I don't like the sound of my phone ringing so I put my phone inside my fish My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment I installed a skylight in my apartment...The people who live above me are All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every so often Doing a little work around the house. I put fake brick wallpaper over a real In my house on the ceilings I have paintings of the rooms above...so I never One time the power went out in my house and I had to use the flash on my camera All the plants in my house are dead---I shot them last night. I was teasing I have a microwave fireplace in my house...The other night I laid down in front Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity...If you wanted to I bought a house, on a one-way dead-end road. I don't know how I got there. I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape My house is made out of balsa wood, so when I want to scare the neighborhood The other night I came home late, and tried to unlock my house with my car My house is on the median strip of a highway. You don't really notice, except For a while I didn't have a car...I had a helicopter...no place to park it, so I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm I play the harmonica. The only way I can play is if I get my car going really I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they I had to stop driving my car for a while...the tires got dizzy. My neighbor has a circular driveway...he can't get out. I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the I have an answering machine in my car. It says, "I'm home now. But leave a Last year we drove across the country. We switched on the driving...every half I saw a sign: "Rest Area 25 Miles". That's pretty big. Some people must be A cop stopped me for speeding. He said, "Why were you going so fast?" I said, I was going 70 miles an hour and got stopped by a cop who said, "Do you know One time a cop pulled me over for running a stop sign. He said, "Didn't you I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get The judge asked, "What do you plead?" I said, "Insanity, your honour, who in When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, Yesterday I parked my car in a tow-away zone...when I came back the entire area I can remember the first time I had to go to sleep. Mom said, "Steven, time to I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that means it's When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, "Did you sleep good?" I I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. One night I walked home very late and fell asleep in somebody's satellite dish. My girlfriend does her nails with white-out. When she's asleep, I go over I got up one morning and couldn't find my socks, so I called Information. She I went into this bar and sat down next to a pretty girl. She looked at me and I bought a self learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an I bought a dog the other day...I named him Stay. It's fun to call him... I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats on The other day, I was walking my dog around my building...on the ledge. Some I spilled spot remover on my dog. He's gone now. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. [Referring to a glass of water:] I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. They say we're 98% water. We're that close to drowning...[picks up his glass I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add to it. I was born by Caesarian section...but not so you'd notice. It's just that when When I was little, my grandfather used to make me stand in a closet for five I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You
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