“Eating spaghetti with a spoon”
Most people eat spaghetti with a fork. "Eating spaghetti with a spoon" has come to have a larger meaning in American English, indicating something done using the wrong tool and with great…
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“Eating Taco Bell shouldn’t count for calories because it’s not in your body long enough”
Taco Bell food (or other Mexican food) can cause the runs (diarrhea). A joke was posted on X/Twitter by Trey on July 23, 2024: "Eating Taco Bell shouldn't count for calories because…
“Eating too much cake is the deadly sin of gluttony. But not eating too much pie…”
A pie/pi joke was posted on Reddit -- Jokes on August 26, 2015: "Eating too much cake is the deadly sin of gluttony. But not eating too much pie, because the sin of pi is always zero."…
“Eating too much spiritual junk food will give you chi zits”
Cheez-It (a cheese cracker) shouldn't be confuse with "chi zit," but there are jokes. "Cheez-Its are better than Chi Zits. #truth #fact #stuff" was posted on Twitter by…
“Eating well is a form of self-respect”
"Eating well is a form of self-respect" is a food saying that has been printed on many images. The saying means that eating well and taking care of one's body are important forms of…
“eBay is so useless. I tried to look up lighters and all they had was 13,749 matches”
eBay.com is an online auction and shopping website. A joke is: "eBay is so useless. I tried to look up lighters and all they had was 13,749 matches." The joke was first posted on Twitter…
“Economic Pearl Harbor” (Wall Street crisis phrase)
Investor Warren Buffett called the financial crisis of 2008 an "economic Pearl Harbor" on CNBC's Squawk Box on September 24, 2008, and again on PBS's Charlie Rose Show on…
“Economists are paid to worry”
The economy causes worry among both economists and investors. The difference, as the saying goes, is that "economists are paid to worry." "Economists are paid to worry about the…
“Economists do it with models” (“Quants do it with models”)
"Economists do it with models" is one of many professional "do it" jokes that have been put on T-shirts and bumper stickers. "Operations researchers do it with models"…
“Editorial writers enter the battlefield after the war and shoot the wounded”
American journalist Murray Kempton (1917-1997) is credited for writing that "a critic (or an editorial writer) is one who walks down the hill, after the battle is over, and shoots the…
“Editorials like skirts—long enough to cover everything, short enough to be interesting”
The formula for good speaking and good writing has been compared to a woman's dress -- "it should be long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting." The saying…
“Editors choose their stories, but sometimes stories choose their editors”
Author Salmon Rushdie said in 1990, "Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." The quotation has been frequently cited in books and in…
“Edmonton is to Calgary as Austin is to Houston”
"Edmonton is to Calgary as Austin is to Houston" (Edmonton:Calgary::Austin:Houston) compares a capital city and a largest city. The Canadian province of Alberta (where Edmonton is the…
“Educated people are hotter because they have more degrees”
"'Educated people are hotter because they have more degrees' True story ρε!!!Είμαστε!!!" is a "degrees" pun that was posted on Twitter by Lna Spanious ♔ on…
“Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army”
“Education is a better safeguard for liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the schoolmaster, we must raise the wages of the recruiting sergeant," said Massachusetts…
“Education is important, but [X] is importanter”
"Education is important, but [X] is importanter" is a jocular line that has been printed on T-shirts, posters and ecards. "Education is important, but big biceps are…
“Education is important, but big biceps are importanter”
"Education is important, but [X] is importanter" is a jocular line that has been printed on T-shirts, posters and ecards. "Education is important, but big biceps are…
“Education is no substitute for intelligence”
American science fiction writer Frank Herbert (1920-1986) wrote in Chapterhouse: Dune (1985): "Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by…
“Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions”
"Education is not the answer to the question. Education is the means to the answer to all questions" is a saying that has been printed on several images. "Someone once said,…
“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world”
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013) often stressed the importance of education. "Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world" is a popular Mandela quote that was…