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* From [https://www.msu.edu/~haasadam/thoughts.htm Jack Handey's Deep Thoughts]
{{quote| Life, to me, is like a quiet forest pool, one that needs a direct hit from a big rock half-buried in the ground. You pull and you pull, but you can't get the rock out of the ground. So you give it a good kick, but you lose your balance and go skidding down the hill toward the pool. Then out comes a big Hawaiian man who was screwing his wife beside the pool because they thought it was real pretty. He tells you to get out of there, but you start faking it, like you're talking Hawaiian, and then he gets mad and chases you...}}
* Among the concepts used by the Oulipo, who were basically the [[Dada|Dadaists]] of the literary world, is the [[wikipedia:
* From the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]]:
** "Pleased with his metaphor, Fitz attempted to extend it."
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* In ''[[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Jeeves and Wooster]]'' Bertie sometimes falls into this while narrating. ''Very Good, Jeeves!'' gives us this gem:
{{quote| ''One of the first lessons life teaches us is that on these occasions of back-chat between the delicately-nurtured a man should retire into the offing, curl up in a ball, and imitate the prudent tactics of the opossum, which, when danger is in the air, pretends to be dead, frequently going to the length of hanging out crepe and instructing its friends to stand round and say what a pity it all is.''}}
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