Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
Recreational Slumming: The practice of participating in recreational activities of a class one perceives as lower than one's own: "Karen! Donald! Let's go bowling tonight! And don't worry about shoes ... apparently you can rent them." -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" | |
I'm So Miserable Without You It's Almost Like Having You Here -- Song title by Stephen Bishop. She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft -- Song title by Jerry Reed. When My Love Comes Back from the Ladies' Room Will I Be Too Old to Care? -- Song title by Lewis Grizzard. I Don't Know Whether to Kill Myself or Go Bowling -- Unattributed song title. Drop Kick Me, Jesus, Through the Goal Posts of Life -- Unattributed song title. | |
Well, some take delight in the carriages a-rolling, And some take delight in the hurling and the bowling, But I take delight in the juice of the barley, And courting pretty fair maids in the morning bright and early. | |
Ever feel like you're the head pin on life's bowling alley, and everyone's rolling strikes? | |
I can't decide whether to commit suicide or go bowling. -- Florence Henderson | |
Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain. -- Martin Mull | |
"I'd love to go out with you, but it's my parakeet's bowling night." | |
Why I Can't Go Out With You: I'd LOVE to, but... -- I've got a Friends of the Lowly Rutabaga meeting. -- I promised to help a friend fold road maps. -- I've been scheduled for a karma transplant. -- I'm staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture. -- It's my parakeet's bowling night. -- I'm building a plant from a kit. -- There's a disturbance in the Force. -- I'm doing door-to-door collecting for static cling. -- I'm teaching my ferret to yodel. -- My crayons all melted together. | |
And furthermore, my bowling average is unimpeachable!!! | |
I brought my BOWLING BALL -- and some DRUGS!! | |
I put aside my copy of "BOWLING WORLD" and think about GUN CONTROL legislation... | |
I'm a fuschia bowling ball somewhere in Brittany | |
I'm QUIETLY reading the latest issue of "BOWLING WORLD" while my wife and two children stand QUIETLY BY ... | |
... My pants just went on a wild rampage through a Long Island Bowling Alley!! | |
Yow! Now I get to think about all the BAD THINGS I did to a BOWLING BALL when I was in JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL! |