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I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everyt

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything. – Steven Wright

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There was a power outage at a department store yesterday. Twenty people were trapped on the escalators. – Steven Wright

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He swore at us in German (which I should judge to be a singularly effective language for that purpose)… – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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