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• COONDOG MEMORY (heard in Rutledge, Missouri, about eighteen years ago) Now
  his dog is for sale, and she can not only follow a trail twice as old as the average dog can, but she's got a pretty good memory to boot....
• I lay my head on the railroad tracks, Waitin' for the double E.
  The railroad don't run no more. Poor poor pitiful me....
• Marge: What were you like as a boy, Mr. Burns? Did you have a dog that you loved?
  Burns: Well... Daah! There's something on my leg....
• My Bonnie looked into a gas tank The height of its contents to see She lighted a match to assist her Oh bring back my Bonnie to me.
• Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche.
  A cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea....
• Any great truth can -- and eventually will -- be expressed as a cliche -- a cliche is a sure and certain way to dilute an idea.
  For instance, my grandmother used to say, "The black cat is always the last one off the fence....
• But oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd, I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
  -- John Milton (1608-1674) -- On his Deceased Wife...