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Dave Barry Quotes
«As a child, I was more afraid of tetanus shots than, for example, Dracula.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Children,
Fear
| Keywords:
Dracula, for example, shots, tetanus
«What, exactly, is the internet? Basically it is a global network exchanging digitized data in such a way that any computer, anywhere, that is equipped with a device called a 'modem', can make a noise like a duck choking on a kazoo»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Internet
| Keywords:
anywhere, basically, chokes, choke up, choking, computer, data, device, duck, equip, equipped, equipping, equips, exactly, exchanging, global, internet, Internet in, kazoo, modem, network, noise, noise like, The Internet, The Network
«The Internet: Transforming Society and Shaping the Future Through Chat»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Funny,
Internet
| Keywords:
chat, chats, internet, shaping, The Internet, transforming
«New York Taxi Rules:1. Driver speaks no English.2. Driver just got here two days ago from someplace like Segal.3. Driver hates you.»
«Entire new continent can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the DMV.»
«The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison... Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
electrical, phonograph, phonographs, pioneer, Thomas Edison
«A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
coincidence, last half, legislator, legislators, mention, nation state, not to mention, potty-trained, potty, Presidents, The Nation, trained
«Dogs need to sniff the ground; it's how they keep abreast of current events. The ground is a giant dog newspaper, containing all kinds of late-breaking news items, which, if they are especially urgent, are often continued in the next yard.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
abreast, abreast of, breaking, containing, continued, current, Current Events, giant, item, items, keep abreast, newspaper, of late, sniff, sniffed, sniffing, sniffs, urgent, yard
«Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Electricity
| Keywords:
actually, drinking, electricity, electron, electrons, extremely, made-up, naked, particles, tiny
