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| | #5191 | | To a Californian, the basic difference between the people and the pigeons
in New York is that the pigeons don't shit on each other.
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
| | | #5192 | | To a New Yorker, all Californians are blond, even the blacks. There are,
in fact, whole neighborhoods that are zoned only for blond people. The
only way to tell the difference between California and Sweden is that the
Swedes speak better English."
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
| | | #5193 | | To a New Yorker, the only California houses on the market for less than a
million dollars are those on fire. These generally go for six hundred
thousand.
-- From "East vs. West: The War Between the Coasts
| | | #5194 | | To be happy one must be a) well fed, unhounded by sordid cares, at ease in
Zion, b) full of a comfortable feeling of superiority to the masses of one's
fellow men, and c) delicately and unceasingly amused according to one's taste.
It is my contention that, if this definition be accepted, there is no country
in the world wherein a man constituted as I am -- a man of my peculiar
weaknesses, vanities, appetites, and aversions -- can be so happy as he can
be in the United States. Going further, I lay down the doctrine that it is
a sheer physical impossibility for such a man to live in the United States
and not be happy.
-- H.L. Mencken, "On Being An American"
| | | #5195 | | To know Edina is to reject it.
-- Dudley Riggs, "The Year the Grinch Stole the Election"
| | | #5196 | | Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
-- Judy Garland, "Wizard of Oz"
| | | #5197 | | Tourists -- have some fun with New York's hard-boiled cabbies. When you
get to your destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was hitch-hiking."
-- David Letterman
| | | #5198 | | Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.
-- David Letterman
| | | #5199 | | Traveling through New England, a motorist stopped for gas in a tiny village.
"What's this place called?" he asked the station attendant.
"All depends," the native drawled. "Do you mean by them that has
to live in this dad-blamed, moth-eaten, dust-covered, one-hoss dump, or
by them that's merely enjoying its quaint and picturesque rustic charms
for a short spell?"
| | | #5200 | | Visit beautiful Vergas, Minnesota.
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