That’s Cole’s Law.
Because they are bite sized
They said we were blowing it out of proportion.
It’s a small world.
A friend an I were driving home when I noticed two bright stars in the sky I knew to be planets.
Me: "Do you know what planets those are?"
Him: "I don't know... Mars and Venus?".
Me: "I'm pretty sure they're Venus and Jupiter"
Him: "Yeah, I had no idea. I just pulled two planet names out of my..."
Me: "Uranus?"
Me and my brother (looking after his son) having a conversation after I got back from a short holiday.
Me: I can't get into my house at the moment...
Brother: Why not?
Me: Turns out it flooded while I was away, hot water pipes burst...
Brother: That must have dampened the mood!
Brother proceeds to move his sons mouth into a mock laughing motion as he chuckles to himself.
I was watching the Olympic men's Super combined downhill when I made the comment that the skiers get down the hill pretty quickly (referring to the speedometer that would pop up occasionally).
Without missing a beat my dad said the last U.S. skier made it down the hill Ligety split.
The work of Steven Wright, he's the famous Erudite (comic) scientist who once said: "I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates."
1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
3 - Half the people you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow, you have got to put up with the rain.
9 - All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ...... But she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
19 - I intend to live forever... So far, so good.
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name.
25 - If at first, you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 - A conclusion is a place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.
34 - If at first, you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.
35 - If your car could travel at the speed of light, would your headlights work?
then he blew the lesson way out of proportion
It was a catastrophe of Titanic proportion
It was a war of epic proportions.
He told me he wanted a highlighted line, possibly dashed, as part of an animation (for teaching maths to kids). He has set a decidedly minimalistic but eye-catching style that I need to follow, so after a few tweaks, trying to get the right proportions and a nice look, I turned around to him and asked 'Is this along the right lines'?
It was only after I said it I realised the accidental genius of what I had just said, so I simply had to point it out.
He responded with '...I'll let you off this time.'
