Oneliners "Time stood still for about a minute." (person in documentary describing UFO encounter) "Just as expected, the rainfall totals were less than expected." (local weatherman) So far, everytime I've used inductive reasoning it's worked fine! I think voluntarism should be manditory. (Thanks Tom!) “Earth is the most dangerous planet in the world.” (MAXimum eXposure) “That thing was spinning at 100 RPMs per second.” (church speaker) “There is a state-wide burn ban in parts of Oklahoma.” (weather girl) Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his shoes, because then you're a mile away from him and you have his shoes. It depends on what you mean by 'ambiguous.' I didn't know that ignorance was not an excuse. Maybe I shouldn't second guess myself after all. I have given up the observance of Lent. Can you think of a question with the word 'cantaloupe' in it for no apparent reason? If you give in to one slippery slope fallacy, pretty soon you'll be giving into them all. I'm the only one here who is not unique. Life is either an excluded middle or it isn't. The word 'practically' had practically come to mean virtually the same thing as the word 'virtually.' Ask me about my vow of silence. (with thanks to Doug Beaumont!) If you like your job, are you a gruntled employee? Everybody overgeneralizes. Sometimes it's intermittent and sometimes it's not. (with thanks to Sonny Fleming!) What if there were no hypotheticals? In this business, you either sink or swim or you don't. Surveys show that nine out of ten people say that if you get ten people together one person is always going to disagree with the other nine. (Colin Mochrie) A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough and, after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed. Can you be a closet claustrophobic? Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you. Just because you're a hypochondriac doesn't mean you're not seriously ill. “This is a once in a lifetime opportunity that only comes every so often.” (Randy Moss)