Words of Wisdom

Unearthed last night, a list of things that my friends and I apparently thought were hilarious or poignant when we were 16 or so years old.

  • Prismism rules!
  • It’s worse than that, it’s physics, Jim.
  • Don’t rookydoo around.
  • The purple pane of glass and velvety cat balls
  • Communism is evil!
  • Good Heavens! (oh no, not the infamous Good Heavens clerics!)
  • Convert to Bert!
  • Death by stereo
  • The Cube that Killed the Kremlin, and Broccoli Abuse
  • I never heard that word before, Your Grace.
  • Everyone wants to know what gives, but I know where the tarantula lives.
  • 748-1414
  • Bert and Ernie (NOT Ernie and Bert)
  • Get Your Sofa Away From Me
  • SAY NO MORE!
  • Don’t crush that dwarf, hand me the pliers.
  • Ice cream has no bones.
  • Live in a swamp and be three-dimensional.
  • Be obsequious, purple, and clairvoyant.
  • My hovercraft is full of eels.
  • Art is the only way I can run away without leaving home.
  • It’s only forever, not long at all.
  • You can make an object go through space, but can you make space go through an object?
  • Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.
  • Rumor: Ronald never takes a leak.
  • It’s true! It’s true! The clown has made it crear!
  • Now the oboe may be there to greet them
  • That is not the way to play croquet.
  • As you wish.
  • I think I am, therefore I am… I think.
  • Paul is an ambidextrous walnut.
  • They are not the hell your whales.
  • Hi! We’re your stickmen slaves!
  • Negative signs make a difference.
  • You can still hear Beethoven, but he can no longer hear you.
  • Roses are red, violets are blue. Some poems rhyme, but this one don’t.
  • Roses are red, violets are blue. I’m schizophrenic, and so am I.
  • Go to hell. Go directly to hell. Do not pass GO. Do not collect $200.
  • Sam the Amoeba: Sam and his brother were quaffing, they split their sides laughing, now each of them is a mother.

3 Comments

  1. HA! Awesome. I still understand about 75% of these, and I still think about 50% of those are funny (or at least the memory of them is funny). And yet, I am technically a grown-up. This seems wrong.

  2. Get your sofa away from me, I hate the upholstery…

    Alternatively, “It’s true! It’s true! The clown has made it queer!”

  3. Molly – I think my percentages are about the same as yours! I, too, am supposed to be a grownup, but most days I don’t feel like one, in so many ways.

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