Lawyer: “Judge, I wish to appeal my client?s case on the basis of newly discovered evidence.”

Judge: “And what is the nature of the new evidence?”

Lawyer: “Judge, I discovered that my client still has $500 left.”

Health care costs are rising uncontrollably across the world. In America, taxes have been on the rise just to pay for them.

In England, they have begun rationing health care services and in some cases they have waiting lists for services just to reduce costs even more. In fact, they now have a nine month waiting list for abortions.

Brezhnev, a former ruler of Russia, was thought not to be too bright. He comes to address a big Communist party meeting, and starts:

“Dear Comrade Imperialists,”

The whole hall perked up – “what did he say??” Brezhnev tried again…

“Dear Comrade Imperialists,”

Well, by now the hall was in pandemonium – was he trying to call them Imperialists? Then, an advisor walked over to the podium and pointed to the speech for Brezhnev. “Oh…” he muttered, and started again:

“Dear Comrades, Imperialists are everywhere.”
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There was a famous anecdote that the reason Brezhnev’s (a former ruler of Russia) speeches ran six hours is because he read not only the original, but the carbon copy. In fact, there was a report near the end of Brezhnev’s life that he went down to south Russia to deliver a speech on science, and accidently gave the wrong speech – on culture – and didn’t even know it until it was over.

A seaman meets a pirate in a bar, and talk turns to their adventures on the sea. The seaman notes that the pirate has a peg-leg, a hook, and an eye patch.

The seaman asks, “So, how did you end up with the peg-leg?” The pirate replies, “We were in a storm at sea, and I was swept overboard into a school of sharks. Just as my men were pulling me out, a shark bit my leg off.”

“Wow!” said the seaman. “What about your hook”? “Well”, replied the pirate, “We were boarding an enemy ship and were battling the other sailors with swords. One of the enemy cut my hand off.”

“Incredible!” remarked the seaman. “How did you get the eye patch”? “A seagull dropping fell into my eye,” replied the pirate.

“You lost your eye to a seagull dropping?,” the sailor asked incredulously. “Well,” said the pirate, “it was my first day with my hook”

A memorandum is written not to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.

A pat on the back is only a few inches from a kick in the pants.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to put in his mouth.

A penny saved has not been spent.

A penny saved is an economic breakthrough.

A penny saved is ridiculous.

A problem cannot be solved using the same level of thinking that created it. (In other words, if you screw it up, you can’t fix it.)

A real person has two reasons for doing anything…a good reason and the real reason.

A short cut is the longest distance between two points.

A short line outside a building becomes a long line inside.