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| #5106 | | I'm going through my "I want to go back to New York" phase today. Happens
every six months or so. So, I thought, perhaps unwisely, that I'd share
it with you.
> In New York in the winter it is million degrees below zero and
the wind travels at a million miles an hour down 5th avenue.
> And in LA it's 72.
> In New York in the summer it is a million degrees and the humidity
is a million percent.
> And in LA it's 72.
> In New York there are a million interesting people.
> And in LA there are 72.
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| #5107 | | "I'm in Pittsburgh. Why am I here?"
-- Harold Urey, Nobel Laureate
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| #5108 | | If all the Chinese simultaneously jumped into the Pacific off a 10 foot
platform erected 10 feet off their coast, it would cause a tidal wave
that would destroy everything in this country west of Nebraska.
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| #5109 | | Illinois isn't exactly the land that God forgot -- it's more like the
land He's trying to ignore.
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| #5110 | | In 1880 the French captured Detroit but gave it back ... they couldn't
get parts.
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| #5111 | | In America, it's not how much an item costs, it's how much you save.
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| #5112 | | In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations --
it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir.
-- Stuart Keate
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| #5113 | | In California they don't throw their garbage away -- they make it into
television shows.
-- Woody Allen, "Annie Hall"
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| #5114 | | In Minnesota they ask why all football fields in Iowa have artificial turf.
It's so the cheerleaders won't graze during the game.
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| #5115 | | Indiana is a state dedicated to basketball. Basketball, soybeans, hogs and
basketball. Berkeley, needless to say, is not nearly as athletic. Berkeley
is dedicated to coffee, angst, potholes and coffee.
-- Carolyn Jones
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