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• If we define things as unreal, they may still be real in their consequences
• they couldn’t speak at all; so used to disuse were their tongues
• Paper, rock, scissors. They all have their pros and cons.
• Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
• What do girls think about guys when they catch guys staring at their breasts, but the guy is actually trying to read her shirt?
• They left the streets stained with blood, and their howling could be heard long after they were gone
• They Shall Beat Their Plowshares Into Swords
• Real hackers start their own IRC networks so that they can't be traced by the FBI
• they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty creator
• The dark riders were not sleeping. They were only resting their eyes.
• They try to be quiet but you know they are there with their weird coppery breath.
• Because the weather is always beautiful, they don't even know that storms can be beautiful too.
• Writers don't look for their big breaks. They write them.
• The hostages wrote thank you cards to their captors when they got home.
• to that end they offer you their bare bellies. pick up the knife.
• It's not enough they take your life away with a gun; they have to take it away with their pens, too
• The ones with their priorities straight don't know how to get what they want, and the ones who get what they want have messed up priorities.
• Scientist hits head on curb joke
• "Of course humans aren't intelligent. They don't even have glurbleflukers. If you can't glurblefluke, you're not sentient."
• Ernie and Bert are not gay. They're puppets. They don't even have legs.
• Girls who go home with you when they don't even know your name
• Where do dogs get their Vitamin C from, when they don't eat fruits?
• They don't realize they're talking about death but I can hear it behind their voices
• their eyes meet for the first time, but they saw each other's hearts
• How do cows get all their nutrients, when they only eat grass?
• they still come to me even though i don't come to them
• and it gets lonely in the rain while they wait for their hook-up
• If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
• I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood like wine
• Never meddle in the affairs of wizards, especially before they have their coffee
• To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty
• They Prayed to their Code To Give them Light
• They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons
• You pass a thousand heroes on the street every day and never know how well they are carrying their burdens
• Do not give what is holy to the dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces
• you will not keep the attention of plebeians, they only listen with their eyes
• They call you heartless, but you have a heart, and I love you for being ashamed to show it. You are ashamed of your flood, while others are ashamed of their ebb.
• I will love them all even after they are long gone
• It wasn't until later, when I was washing the blood off my hands, I even knew they were dead
• You are brave and wonderful even when they nuke the damn thing.
• Whatever it is they spray inside of bowling shoes
• Candide and His Valet Arrive in the Country of El Dorado--What They Saw There
• They said no
• Why are estate agents so superior, after all they ARE estate agents?
• When they come they'll eat the fat ones first
• You turn around and suddenly notice that they are growing up
• When they say "Gotta have it!" they mean it!
• They Fight the Invisible Bears
• People want what they cannot have
• They don't know what they're missing
• cat haters
• What would aliens think of us if Everything was all they had?
• Of course, they were wrong
• "Sex, as they harshly call it"
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• Candide and Martin Touch upon the English Coast -- What They See There
• I used to love women from afar. Of course, now they call it stalking.
• Words you can't use unless they describe you
• We left our dead where they lay and the sand preserved them
• Live so that they cry when you're born and laugh when you die
• They think I'm a god
• they only gave me trouble anyways
• They might not need me - yet they might -
• They leap just because they can, out of joy
• They Live
• What do girls think about guys who think about what other people think about girls and what they do?
• What Have They Done to the Rain
• They mass produce plastic women
• Reasons toilets swirl the way they do
• People who argue, using terms they refuse to define
• Treating registers as if they were variables
• Moments such as these are superfluous to my life; nevertheless, they deserve to be remembered.
• And They Believed Me!
• But, my dear sir, if you educate them, they will no longer be Baptists
• They are angry and they have been lied to
• if you're lucky, they fuse into something bright and astonishing
• Why do computer geeks feel they were born in the wrong time?
• 90% of people think they are of above average intelligence
• DPI, resolution, physical printing size - how they interrelate
• They're drugs, they change you
• They Meet the Wooden Gargoyles
• The Things They Carried
• They Buried the American Dream Today
• I want them to go out as unseen as they came
• They Know Me
• The Harder They Come
• Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
• Brittle things will break before they turn
• The Five Little Peppers and How They Grew
• They danced with fire claws
• What Italian guys are really talking about when they say "Ey Oh"
• All my friends are nonconformists. They all dress like me.
• If they put you in a copy machine, an ass would come out
• Kids aren't cute; they just do stupid things
• The owls are not what they seem
• How would you like it if they took your subculture and made it a theme night?
• But what are they really thinking?
• The Budweiser commercial they refuse to air
• You say "the internet" but you mean "the world wide web"
• They moved like a river
• What Have They Done to the Rain?
• What They Saw in the Country of El Dorado
• Dead people are not sleeping. They are dead.
• Prilosec
• They shoot videogames in Indianapolis, don't they?
• They must have faces
• Now you do what they told ya
• They own the pack while we play the three card trick
• They want me for a focus group!
• Chipirones en su tinta
• Erewhon : Chapter XX - What They Mean By It
• They don't touch me the same way
• They forgot to give me the operating system!
• They just kind of went away
• They asked me to write a letter
• They couldn't install the DSL.
• I do not think that they will sing to me.
• They say that I have the best ass below 14th Street
• They grow bigger every time they witness something bad.
• Our hearts were hard, but they were warm
• Live Era '87-'93
• They hum like angels
• I have to check and see if they wear panties
• They had been expecting me
• Looking as though they saw the dark before dawn every day
• Or were they chords of sun?
• that lump they call your brain
• The Department of They
• Most adults forget what it was like to be a child once they hit a certain age
• Dumb things people wish they hadn't said
• Things you give people that they keep
• Maybe they heard you scream.
• I thought ALL women looked for a wedding ring when they talked to ANY man
• And I don't even know their names
• they
• Tricks girls use to look like they swallow
• They all lived happily ever after
• They Might Be Giants
• They killed our Lord
• Oh my god! They killed Kenny!
• The imaginary world where I make up things and they are true
• They were getting into riot gear as we sipped our wine
• WARNING: Noders May Not Be What They Seem to Be
• I was discovered by scientists, what will they call me?
• The Ten Commandments revised
• They hit each other, like fucking Christ intended!
• Candide and Martin Sup with Six Sharpers--Who They Were
• I bet you they won't play this song on the radio
• the stuff they keep out of the papers, and off the TV, for your own damn good
• Hit by the realization that they are all getting to know you nodes
• play dumb
• So that's what they call it nowadays?
• Honk if your horn is broken: Where do they get these stupid stickers?
• Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke
• Anonymous Men Think They Can Talk To Me
• They have potential, if they only applied themselves
• Children who are born blind still smile when they are happy
• I was into them after they were hip
• Give 'em an inch and they'll take a yard
• First They Came
• They always jump off the east side
• It's hard to know what to say when a friend's parent they always hated suddenly dies
• Things that a fetus would say if it could speak
• Ground rush
• Thinking you know more about computers than the tech you just called
• they might come up here and shoot us all
• Potatoes saved my life they can save yours too
• The Times They Are A-Changin'
• I know they are watching me
• Things they should teach in school
• They Flee From Me
• Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
• They could have sprung 50 cents for a connector
• Automobile tire pressure
• Tell your kids things that they shouldn't know about
• Words that don't mean the same as they used to
• They don't understand my tea
• Why girlfriends get annoyed when they remember things you don't
• Winners don't do drugs, they just sell them
• Don't kill your invisible husband to see what he looks like or you'll sob your heart out. But don't worry about the millions of invisible men coming to attack your village because they won't kill you if you don't know how to fight them.
• Take a day, plant some trees, may they shade you from me

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