“like a walking torture chamber...”
Jack Kerouac On the Road (describing a police officer with all kinds of leather gear, shiny weapons etc.)
“You’re so thin you’d have to stand twice in the same place to make a shadow!”
“Shorty” in Louis L’Amour The Trail to Seven Pines
“Why is it called tourist season if we can’t shoot at them?”
“More Unanswerables” in Gilbert! magazine Vol. 7 #4 (1-2/04)
“The Grate One”
Terry O’Neill in British Columbia Report July 30, 2001 [not referring to Wayne Gretzky, just adapting his nickname to insult any annoying person]
“IF YOUR MIND GOES BLANK, DON’T FORGET TO TURN OFF THE SOUND!”
“Sign Language: Seen on church billboards from coast to coast” submitted by Monica Popp, Edmonton in Reader’s Digest Canadian Edition May 2005
“A very large low-watt bulb”
A friend at a conference describing an overbearing attendee I had characterized as a “dreadnought”.
“I am not certain that brevity is the soul of wit, but brevity is an excellent substitute for wit.”
G.K. Chesterton in New York Times April 10, 1921, quoted in Gilbert! magazine vol. 5 # 3 (Dec. 2001)
“Bad memory image of FAT detected”
A computer message I received in late 1993 from an improperly installed CD-ROM program, which then crashed (it’s funny because it’s certainly true of me personally)