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An archive of the one-liners and openers that have
appeared on the Hyde Home Page:
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I'm drinking and driving cause it's actually safer
than either Drinking or Driving. Last year 33,000 people died as a
direct result of drinking. In the same year 24,000 people died
whilst driving... Drinking and driving casualties last year 726!
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I'd just like to thank the young lady who stopped and allowed me out of the side road this morning.
I'd like her to know...
I arrived at my destination several seconds earlier than I'd planned
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Employee of the month...
...is a good example of how somebody can be...
both a winner and a loser at the same time.
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Got a phone call today to do a gig at a fire station.
Went along....
Turned out to be a bloody hoax.
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You know I was thinking, following the
announcement of Charles and Camilla's wedding...
What the difference was between this partnership and that of Diana
and Dodi.
Then it struck me...
Diana & Dodi's relationship was just a crush.
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A lady with a clipboard stopped me in the street the other day.
She said, "Can you spare a few minutes for cancer research?"
I said,...
"All right, but we're not going to get much done."
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I saw that show...
50 Things To Do Before You Die.
I'd have thought that the obvious one was...
"Shout For Help".
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I realised I was dyslexic when...
I went to a toga party...
dressed as a goat.
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Do you know...
When you stop believing in Santa
is when you start getting clothes for Christmas!
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Is it fair to say...
that there'd be a lot less litter in Britain...
if blind people were given pointed sticks?
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I just bought a microwave fireplace...
You can spend a whole evening in front of it in only eight minutes.
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I bought an audio cleaning tape...
...I'm a big fan of theirs.
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In a small business office they have
an answering machine that instructs callers to leave their name and
address, and to spell any difficult words.
Early one Monday the secretary was
reviewing the weekend messages.
She heard an enthusiastic young woman
recite her name and address and then confidently offer...
"My difficult word is reconciliation.
R-E-C-O-N-C-I-L-I-A-T-I-O-N."
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At first I thought my life was going
around in circles.
Then I took a closer look and
realised...
it's actually a downward spiral.
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We English are not very spiritual people,
so we invented the NHS...
to give us some idea of eternity.
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Reality is merely an illusion,
albeit a very persistent one.
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Pruning rosebushes can be an ordeal if the thorns get a hold of you.
Save your fingers by using a clothes peg to hold the stem you are pruning...
...Or get a bloody Gardener!
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I used to pray every night for a new bicycle.
Then I realised that the Lord, in his wisdom, didn't work that way.
So I just stole one and asked him to forgive me.
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One of the computer techs was at my computer adjusting some settings
so I took the opportunity to ask him a question
"With all this stuff going around, how do I know if I have a virus?"
He kept working, but without missing a beat, he said,
"It will burn when you pee."
Above smile courtesy of Gary
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Police arrested a 71 year-old woman
for running an amphetamine lab from a retirement home.
The staff became suspicious...
...when several of the residents were
seen staying up after 7:30 pm.
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Love can sweep you off your feet and carry you along in a way you've never known before.
But the ride always ends, and you end up feeling lonely and bitter.
Wait, It's not love I'm thinking of...
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The optimist proclaims...
that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
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The only true all-terrain vehicle.
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Q. Did you hear about the couple who made love in the plumbers position?
A. They stayed in all morning, but nobody came.
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Why is it that when we talk to God
we're said to be praying
but...
when God talks to us we're
schizophrenic?
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Have you ever noticed that anybody
driving slower than you is an idiot,
...and anyone going faster than you is
a maniac?
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My Doctor has decided to give me some
diet pills.
"How should I take these", I replied.
"Oh I don't want you to swallow
them...
just drop them on the floor twice a
day and pick them up one by one."
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A mission statement is defined as...
"a long, awkward sentence...
that demonstrates management's
inability to think clearly."
All good companies have one.
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Electricity can be dangerous.
My daughter tried to stick a penny
into a plug socket.
Whoever said a penny doesn't go far
didn't see her shoot across that floor.
I told her she was grounded.
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Scientists have shown that the moon is
moving away at a tiny, although measurable distance from the earth
every year.
If you do the maths, you can calculate
that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth at a
distance of about 35 feet from the earth's surface.
This would explain the death of the
dinosaurs...
...well the tallest ones, anyway.
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My wife is at that stage
when her biological clock is telling
her
it's time for her to be making me
feel...
...guilty and immature.
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Tip of the day...
If you really need to make yourself
throw up
try sticking one finger down your
throat and another up your ass at the same time.
If that doesn't work, try switching
fingers!
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In California, a speech teacher is in
a lot of trouble for encouraging her students to oppose the war with
Iraq.
The principal was furious...
...and said telling kids to oppose the
war is the French teacher's job.
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My wife and I are into S&M.
She snores...
while I masturbate.
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The only exercise program that has
ever worked for me is...
...occasionally getting up in the
morning and jogging my memory
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It has been determined...
...the most used sexual position for married couples...
...is the doggie position.
The husband sits up and begs.
The wife rolls over and plays dead...
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You know folks, my mum once said something that
really struck me.
She said, 'Son, you're a big disappointment',
and God bless her soul...
...she was really onto something.
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Mahatma Gandhi, as you may know, walked barefoot
most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on
his feet.
He also ate very little, which made him rather frail. And with his
odd diet, he suffered from bad breath.
All of this made him...
...A super callused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
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I hope I don't sound like an old-fashioned
stick-in-the-mud, but when I hear about people making vast fortunes
without
doing any productive work or contributing anything to society,
my reaction is:
How can I get in on that?
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You know when you're sitting on a chair......and
you lean back so you're just on two legs
then you lean too far and you almost fall over but at the last
second you catch yourself?
I feel like that all the time.
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In telling me that his Aunt had died my friend
mentioned the words she wanted on her headstone:
"Born a virgin. Lived as a virgin. Died a virgin."
Then the friend said how they'd gone on through the will to discover
she died a pauper.
So to keep the bills down they decided on the following:
"Returned unopened."
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Strange things happen when you're in debt.
Two
weeks ago my car broke down and my phone got disconnected.
I was one electric bill away from being Amish.
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They have an amazing proliferation of TV channels
now: The all-cartoon channel, the 24-hour-news channel.
Of course, to make room for these...
...they got rid of the Literacy Channel and the What's Left of
Civilisation Channel.
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If you love something, set it free. If it comes
back to you, it is yours.
If it doesn't, it was never meant to be.
But, if it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, eats
your food, takes your money, and doesn't appear to realise that
you've set it free...
...You either married it or gave birth to it.
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Now there are more overweight people in Britain
than average weight people.
So overweight people are now average.
Which means I've met my New Year's resolution!
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At the gym, a guy asked me to "spot" for
him while he did the bench press.
What did he mean?
"Spotting" for someone means you stand over him while he
blows air up your shorts.
It's an accepted practice at health clubs...
...though if you find that it becomes the ONLY reason why you're
going in, you probably ought to reevaluate your exercise program.
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I have a stepladder.
It's a very nice stepladder,...
...but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.
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I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the
intelligence.
There's one called brightness...
...but it doesn't work.
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In the beginning the world was without form, and
void. God said "Let there be light."
And God separated the light from the dark.
And discovered he now had two loads of laundry.
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Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead.
Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow.
Do not walk beside me, either.
In fact, just bug' off and leave me alone.
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You can't go to a swimming pool and splash around
anymore.
Everyone's into lane swimming these days.
Just the other day this guy jumps in behind me and
says, "How long you gonna be using this lane, mate?"
I replied, "Just until my bladders
empty!"
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I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining
friends.
I can win an argument on any topic, against any
opponent.
People know this, and steer clear of me at
parties.
Often, as a sign of their great respect, they
don't even invite me.
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When will I learn?
The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a
bottle, they're on
...daytime TV!
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Britishness Test:
Being British is driving a German car to an Irish pub to
drink Belgian lager served by an Australian bar maid.
Then home, on the way grabbing an Indian takeaway or a
Turkish kebab to eat on Swedish furniture while watching American shows on
Japanese televisions
...and the most important thing about being British is
suspicion of anything foreign.
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Have you noticed... that nobody believes the official
spokesperson, but everybody... ...trusts an unidentified source.
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Hyde: I'm always doing this.
An email update contained a "classic".
I managed to get the word
"breaks" instead of "brakes". So read on...
Eye halve a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marcs four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
It's rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect awl the weigh
My checker tolled me sew.
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You'll never believe this.
If you play an AOL 7.0 CD backwards you can hear all
kinds of evil and satanic messages!
But if you play it forward...
...It fucks up your PC! |
