February 7, 2004

• Now, for something completely different:

  
  

  1. Everyone has a photographic memory. Some don’t have film.
  2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
  3. A day without sunshine is like, well, night.
  4. On the other hand, you have different fingers.
  5. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
  6. Back up my hard drive? How do I put it in reverse?
  7. I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
  8. When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
  9. Seen it all, done it all, can’t remember most of it.
  10. Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don’t.
  11. I feel like I’m diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
  12. He’s not dead. He’s electroencephalographically challenged.
  13. She’s always late. Her ancestors arrived on the Juneflower.
  14. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted,
  then used against you.
  15. I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.
  16. Honk if you love peace and quiet.
  17. Pardon my driving. I’m reloading.
  18. Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?
  19. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
  20. It is hard to understand how a cemetery raised its burial costs and
  blamed it on the high cost of living.
  21. Just remember… if the world didn’t suck, we’d all fall off.
  22. The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something
  right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.
  23. It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end,
  someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them.
  24. You can’t have everything, where would you put it?
  25. Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world’s
  population.
  26. If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.
  27. The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those
  who got there first.
  28. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he
  will sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
  29. Flashlight: A case for holding dead batteries.
  30. Shin: A device for finding furniture.
  31. As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.
  32. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
  33. It was recently discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
  34. Everybody lies, but it doesn’t matter since nobody listens.
  35. I wished the buck stopped here, as I could use a few.
  36. I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.
  37. When you go into court you are putting yourself in the hands of 12
  people that weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
  38. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright
  until you hear them speak.

  
  

  And…

  
  

  
  create your own visited states map or write about it on the open travel guide

  
  

  Can you tell I’m a Westerner?  I had covered the West and Southwest in my youth, but had not been east of the Mississippi until Greyfox sent plane fare for Doug and me to go to Pennsylvania in 1990 to help him pack and move up here.  During that packing-and-moving time, we drove to Virginia and got married.  Virginia was better than Pennsylvania, but in general I just didn’t like the East.  Each time we went from his place in Harrisburg to his mom’s place in Dauphin, we went a few miles on a westbound expressway.  Whenever we took the exit for Dauphin, I always wanted to just stay on the road headed west. 

  
  

  Then, when we all headed west in two separate vehicles at different times, Doug and I left first, went south and saw Mammoth Cave, then did a leisurely tour up through the Moundbuilders’ sites before making our rendezvous with Greyfox at Custer State Park in South Dakota… and that’s how that eastward extension of my “visited states” happened. 

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