[122] in Humor
HUMOR: Steven Wright-isms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Thu Mar 3 17:19:40 1994
From: abennett@MIT.EDU
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 94 17:15:14 EST
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 94 12:58:15 PST
From: ckleinja@Novell.COM (Connie Kleinjans)
Subject: HUMOR: Steven Wright collection
Enclosed is some Steven Wright humor:
It doesn't matter what temperature the room is, it's always room
temperature.
I was an only child, eventually.
I lost a button hole.
I'm not afraid of heights. I'm afraid of widths.
I saw a sign at a gas station. It said 'help wanted'. There was
another sign below it that said 'self service'. So I hired myself.
Then I made myself the boss. I gave myself a raise. I paid myself.
Then I quit.
A cop stopped me for speeding. He said, 'Why were you going so fast?'
I said, 'See this thing my foot is on? It's called an accelerator.
When you push down on it, it sends more gas to the engine. The whole
car just takes right off. And see this thing? This steers it'
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel
over what I considered to be an odd number.
I parked in the tow-away zone, and when I got back, the entire
neighborhood was gone.
I once put instant coffee in a microwave and went back in time.
I got a dog and named him `Stay'. Now, I go `Come here, Stay!' After
a while, the dog went insane and wouldn't move at all.
I spilled spot remover on my dog....now he's gone.
I have a map of the United States, life size. 1 mile equals 1 mile.
It's a bitch to fold it.
I made wine out of raisins so I wouldn't have to wait for it to age.
Last year for Christmas, I got a humidifier and a dehumidifier.... I
thought I'd put them in the same room and let them fight it out.
I woke up this morning and couldn't find my socks, so I called
information. She said they were behind the couch. She was right.
My house is made out of balsa wood, so when I want to scare the
neighborhood kids I lift it over my head and tell them to get out of
my yard or I'll throw it at them.
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja-vu at the same time. I think I've
forgotten this before.
In my house there's this light switch that doesn't do anything. Every
so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got
a call from a woman in Germany. She said, "Cut it out."
Sponges grow in the ocean ... that *kills* me. I wonder how much deeper
the oceans would be if that didn't happen.
I got pulled over by a cop, and he said, 'do you know the speed limit
here is 55 miles per hour?'. So I said, 'oh, that's OK, I'm not going
that far.'
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
My girlfriend asked me if I slept well. I said no, I made a couple
mistakes.
I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that means
it's going to be up all night.
I have two very rare photographs. One is a picture of Houdini locking
his keys in his car. The other is a rare photograph of Norman Rockwell
beating up a child.
I stayed up all night playing poker with tarot cards. I got a full
house and four people died.
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere
near the place.
I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the
shape of a house.
I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the
statues that are in all the other museums.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any
firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?"
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
If you were going to shoot a mime, would you use a silencer?
I planted some bird seed. A bird grew. Now I don't know what to feed it.
I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar.
I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar
bill to everybody on the list.
I was in the grocery store. I saw a sign that said "pet supplies".
So I did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said "compact cars".
You know how it is when you go to be the subject of a psychology
experiment, and nobody else shows up, and you think maybe that's part of
the experiment? I'm like that all the time.
The sign said "eight items or less". So I changed my name to Les.
Yesterday I saw a chicken crossing the road. I asked it why. It told
me it was none of my business.
In school, every period ends with a bell. Every sentence ends with
a period. Every crime ends with a sentence.
I xeroxed a mirror. Now I have an extra xerox machine.
I went to San Francisco. I found someone's heart.
I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the
prescription ran out.
I put my air conditioner in backwards. It got cold outside. The
weatherman on TV was confused. "It was supposed to be hot today."
I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading.
Then I said to the guy, "Let me ask you a question. If you are in a
spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on
the headlights, does anything happen?" He said, "I don't know."
I said, "I don't want your job."
I was in the first submarine. Instead of a periscope, they had a
kaleidoscope. "We're surrounded."
When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age
in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be
ninety.
I don't like the sound of my phone ringing so I put my phone
inside my fish tank. I can't hear it, but every time I get a call I
see the fish go like this <<<>>><<>><<<<. I go down to the pet store.
'Gimme another ten guppies, I got a lotta calls yesterday.'
I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything
specifically.
My school colors were clear. I'm not naked, I'm in the band.
I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is.
Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say,
"I think I might have written that."
I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me
if they can help me, and I say,' Have you got anything I'd like?' Then
they ask me what size I need, and I say, ' Extra medium.'
I was reading the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about everything.
I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he
can get me five.
I have the world's largest collection of seashells. I keep it on all
the beaches of the world... perhaps you've seen it....
When I was a kid I had a friend who worked in a radio station. Whenever
we walked under a bridge, you couldn't hear what he said.
I have a microwave fireplace in my house...The other night I relaxed
in front of the fire for the evening in ten minutes.
I once tried to commit suicide by jumping off a building...I changed
my mind at the last minute, so I just flipped over and landed on my feet.
Two little kittens nearby saw what happened and one turns to the other
and says, "See, that's how it's done."
I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering.
The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store... with a
pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm
marking down everything in the store..."
Last year we drove across the country... We had one cassette tape to
listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what it was...
My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later
I can ask him what he meant.
I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier
they wouldn't have to go so fast.
I put contact lenses in my dog's eyes. They had little pictures of cats
on them. Then I took one out and he ran around in circles.
I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.
I saw a subliminal advertising executive, but only for a second.
I have an answering machine in my car. It says "I'm home now. But
leave a message and I'll call when I'm out."
My girlfriend asked me how long I was going to be gone on this tour.
I said, "the whole time".
I can remember the first time I had to go to sleep. Mom said, "Steven,
time to go to sleep" I said "But I don't know how." She said, "It's real
easy. Just go down to the end of tired and hang a left." So I went down
to the end of tired, and just out of curiosity I hung a right. My mother
was there, and she said "I thought I told you to go to sleep."
I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one -- it wasn't doing
what I was doing.
I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this
bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."
On the other hand, you have different fingers.
(This is a pretty big selection of Steven Wrightisms, but highly amusing
nonetheless. It actually was trimmed from an even bigger file.)
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