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• When I hear the word "culture", I reach for my checkbook. -- Edward Abbey
• Rattlesnake speedway in the Utah desert, I pick up my money and head back into to town.
• I'll pick up my papers, and smile at the sky. I know that the hypnotized never lie.
• I wish I lived back in the old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick.
  Then I'd go out West and start digging for gold....
• I get up each morning, gather my wits. Pick up the paper, read the obits.
  If I'm not there I know I'm not dead. So I eat a good breakfast and go back to bed....
• LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire....
• Lisa: When do we get to my first word? Homer: Your what what?
  Lisa: [indignant] My first words! Homer: Nah, you don't want to hear that story....
• If I could reach up an pick one star for every time you've made me smile, the whole evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.