{"id":4315,"date":"2013-01-27T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/?p=4315"},"modified":"2013-01-26T11:49:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T11:49:31","slug":"27-january-2013-amusements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2013\/01\/27\/27-january-2013-amusements\/","title":{"rendered":"27 January 2013 &#8211; Amusements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These came from Erik Benson:<\/p>\n<p>Wish I&#8217;d Said That!<\/p>\n<p>When the white missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, &#8216;Let us pray.&#8217; We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Desmond Tutu<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real, but the moon landing was faked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>David Letterman<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a paranoid, deranged millionaire. God dammit! I&#8217;m a billionaire.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Howard Hughes<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>After the game, the King and the pawn go into the same box.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Italian proverb<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Men are like linoleum floors. Lay &#8217;em right and you can walk all over them for thirty years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Betsy Salkind<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The only reason that they say, &#8216;Women and children first&#8217; is to test the strength of the lifeboats.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Jean Kerr<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been married to a communist and a fascist, and neither would take out the garbage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Zsa Zsa Gabor<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>You know you&#8217;re a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Jeff Foxworthy<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>When a man opens a car door for his wife, it&#8217;s either a new car or a new wife.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Prince Philip<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Emo Philips<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Harrison Ford<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The best cure for sea sickness is to sit under a tree.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Spike Milligan<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Lawyers believe that a man is innocent until proven broke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Robin Hall<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Kill one man and you&#8217;re a murderer, kill a million and you&#8217;re a conqueror.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Jean Rostand<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Having more money doesn&#8217;t make you happier. I have 50 million dollars but I&#8217;m just as happy as when I had 48 million.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>W.H. Auden<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>In hotel rooms I worry. I can&#8217;t be the only guy who sits on the furniture naked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Jonathan Katz<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If life were fair, Elvis would still be alive today and all the impersonators would be dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Johnny Carson<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I don&#8217;t believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius and we&#8217;re very sceptical.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Arthur C. Clarke<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Steve Martin<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Jimmy Durante<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind &#8211; every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>John Glenn<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If toast always lands butter-side down and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Steven Wright<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Doug Hamwell<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>George Roberts<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>If God had intended us to fly, he would have made it easier to get to the airport.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Jonathan Winters<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Robert Benchley<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These came from Erik Benson: Wish I&#8217;d Said That! When the white missionaries came to Africa, they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, &#8216;Let us pray.&#8217; We closed our eyes. When we opened them, we had the Bible and they had the land. Desmond Tutu America is the only country where &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/2013\/01\/27\/27-january-2013-amusements\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;27 January 2013 &#8211; Amusements&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9w76b-17B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stragnell.com\/befoulednews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}