When firefighters have a brithday and have to blow out the fire (the candles on a birthday cake), do they like this or not? "I bet firefighters are really good at blowing out the candles on…
An adage about the bravery -- or insanity -- of firefighters is that they run into a burning building when every else is running out. (The adage sometimes says that the "rats and roaches"…
"A lawyer must first get on, then get honor, and then get honest" is an old legal saying, usually given "anonymous" authorship. The saying has been recorded in print by at least…
"The first rule of gun safety is to never let the government take your guns" is a pro-gun saying that has been printed on many images. "The first rule of firearm safety is to never…
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" has been attributed to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948), but there is no evidence that he said it.…
Fr. Dwight Longenecker posted on Twitter on October 31, 2019: "First we overlook evil. Then we permit evil. Then we legalize evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we…
New York (NY) Times columnist Russell Baker (1925-2019) wrote on August 6, 1968, about the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida: "MIAMI BEACH, August 5. -- Every political…
American inventor Thomas Edison (1847-1931) is often credited for saying: “Five percent of the people think, ten percent of the people think they think, and the other eighty-five percent would…
Mark Twain (1825-1910) wrote in What Is Man? (1906), a dialogue between a young man and a jaded older man: O. M.: "Well, canary birds can learn all that; dogs and elephants learn all sorts of…
Many people are sick of the "good cop/bad cop" government game of Democrats and Republicans. "I'm really fucking sick of folks who are mad at exactly one half of the ruling…
"Follow the money" is a line popularized by the film All the President's Men (1976), about the Watergate scandal. Deep Throat (Mark Felt, it was later revealed) tells Washington Post…
"Follow the science" became a popular catchphrase during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. However, many scientists who disagreed with Big Pharma and the government were silenced…
"Follow the science" became a popular catchphrase during the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. However, many scientists who disagreed with Big Pharma and the government were silenced…
"Interview with a wise 101 year-old Hattie Mae MacDonald of Feague, Kentucky" is a drinking joke that has been circulating since at least 2014. There is no Feague, Kentucky. The…
"To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction" is Newton's third law of motion. "For every action there is an equal and opposite government program" is a…
"For every human illness, there exists a plant which is the cure" (also slightly longer as, "For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the…
"For every human illness, there exists a plant which is the cure" (also slightly longer as, "For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the…
"For extra cash consider robbing sex offenders. Their address is easy to find, and they can't own guns" is a jocular saying that has been printed on several images. The meme was…
"For God so loved the world that He didn't send a committee" is a jocular indictment of committees that has been popular with newspaper political columnists and church preachers.…
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic resulted in many requirements to wear face masks. "For Halloween I’m going to walk around in public without a mask. That’ll definitely scare the shit out…