Top 10 Phrases Not Found in Rap Songs

In keeping with the Socratic method….

I’m open-minded enough to grant due consideration to…

Have you given any thought to…

But as a wise man once said…

Accordingly and with all due respect to the feminine half of the species…

We must be ever mindful of the fact that…

Granted, I am first and foremost the type disinclined to speak up on such matters but…

Seeing how the pen is mightier than the sword…

Discretion being the better part of valor….

While mindful that some historians might disagree with this notion…

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Take That Michael Vick!

Former NFL quarterback and current San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh has not washed his pickup since March of this year because he does not want to kill the spider residing in its web in the back of the truck.

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PS – Last year, Harbaugh’s Stanford team went 11-1.

Question For Our Times

If the suggestion of raising taxes on the wealthy is construed by many to be “class warfare,” wouldn’t this make taxation as an act of war?  Or would we limit that to such things as “taxation without representation?”  You know, like the unrepresented residents of the District of Columbia endure.

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I'm Not Saying Writing Drives One To Drink...

… but screenwriter Aaron Sorkin’s first three acting gigs were playing a man in a bar.

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Each Morning When He Awakens...

… John Travolta drops to his knees to give thanks to God and a statuette of Quentin Tarantino.  (Not in that order of course.)

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Hey Wolf, Try Asking THIS Question at The Tea Party Debates

“Seeing how all of you are Christians approving of the decision to kill Osama bin Laden, would you be willing to look the American people in the eye and state that your personal Lord and Savior, i.e. the Son of God, was hopelessly naïve when it came to the ‘love your enemies’ thing and, if not, explain how assassinating someone is an expression of love?”

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Hard Copies = Hard Bodies!

A year ago, I told you of my new job as a traveling salesman for hard copy encyclopedias. The job is challenging to say the least, the sheer weight of the volumes such that I am limited to lugging around no more than two volumes at a time.

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