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December 24, 2017
Food/Drink

“If you were a fruit, you’d be a fineapple”

"If you were a fruit, you'd be a fineapple" (fine + pineapple) is a jocular line that has been printed on many images. "If I were a fruit, Id be a fineapple" was posted on…

April 9, 2019
Food/Drink

“If you were a vegetable, you’d be a rudeabaga”

"If you were a vegetable, you'd be a rudeabaga" (rude + rutabaga) is a jocular saying that has been printed on several images. "If you were a plant you'd be a…

December 24, 2017
Food/Drink

“If you were a vegetable, you’d be a cutecumber”

"If you were a vegetable, you’d be a cutecumber" (cute + cucumber) is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. "'If you were a vegetable, you'd be a…

June 8, 2018
Work/Businesses

“If you were able to believe in Santa Claus for 8 years, you can believe in yourself for 5 minutes”

Some people lack self-confidence. "If you were able to believe in Santa Claus for like 8 years, you can believe in yourself for like 5 minutes/seconds" is an inspirational saying that has…

July 18, 2019
Education/Schools

“If you were anti-pencil,  would you be erasist?”

"Erasist" (or "eracist"), meaning someone who erases, sounds like "racist." A joke was told by Arin Hanson of Game Grumps on a YouTube video on March 3, 2014: "If…

March 4, 2018
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If you were dating an FBI agent and you broke up, he would be your fed ex”

The FedEx Corporation is an American multinational courier delivery services company. It is not owned by the U.S. federal government, but a joke was posted on Twitter on April 30, 2014: "Lame…

February 9, 2009
Food/Drink

“If you were my husband, I’d poison your coffee” (Nancy Astor to Churchill?)

The following joke is frequently told about Nancy Astor (1879-1964) and Winston Churchill (1874-1965). Astor supposedly said: "if I were your wife, I'd put poison in your coffee!"…

June 7, 2024
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If you were poor under Capitalism, you would be dead under Communism”

"If you were poor under Capitalism, you would be dead under Communism" (shown on an image) was posted on X/Twitter by The Rabbit Hole on April 14, 2024, and this received over 15,000…

November 25, 2017
Time/Weather

“If you win a year’s worth of calendars, do you only win one calendar?”

A joke has someone getting "a year's supply of calendars" -- one calendar. The joke was used on the American television sitcom Full House, the episode "The Big Three-O"…

December 14, 2011
Radio/Television

“If you win the morning, you win the day” (radio adage)

"As the morning goes, so goes the station" was the slogan of WNBC (New York, NY) station manager Perry Bascom in 1972. Bascom -- a former president of Radio Advertising Representatives --…

April 29, 2019
Sports/Games

“If you win, be humble. If you lose, be gracious”

Entry in progress -- B.P. “If you lose, be patient. If you win, stay humble” is a similar saying. FacebookBASS ODYSSEYSeptember 4, 2013 · "If you win be humble. If you lose be gracious.…

February 17, 2015
Food/Drink

“If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner”

English writer Henry Sambrooke Leigh (1837-1883) wrote in "On Corpulence" (1869): If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner,And take to light claret instead of pale ale;Look down…

August 10, 2018
Work/Businesses

“If you work at a cemetery, every shift is a graveyard shift”

A "graveyard shift" is a night shift, such as one between midnight and 6 a.m. It does not necessarily involve a work shift at a cemetery, but there are jokes. "And for two summers, I…

August 19, 2016
Work/Businesses

“If you would be pungent, be brief”

A popular saying about speaking is: "If you would be pungent, be brief—for it is with words as with sunbeams, the more they are condensed the deeper they burn." The line was published…

May 12, 2017
Food/Drink

“If you wrote a screenplay about coffee, would it be a JavaScript?”

"JavaScript" is not a screenplay about coffee, but there are many puns. "Javascript (which I thought was a screenplay about coffee)" was posted on the newsgroup Google Groups:…

May 12, 2017
Media/Newspapers/Magazines/Internet

“If you wrote a screenplay about coffee, would it be a JavaScript?”

"JavaScript" is not a screenplay about coffee, but there are many puns. "Javascript (which I thought was a screenplay about coffee)" was posted on the newsgroup Google Groups:…

May 20, 2024
Food/Drink

“If you’ll excuse me, I’ll be climbing into my gravy boat and sailing away on the mashed potato sea”

Gravy boats (sauce boats) are not boats that sail on water, but there are jokes. "If you had enough gravy boats would you have a gravy navy?" was posted on X/Twitter by John…

March 22, 2021
Government/Law/Military/Religion /Health

“If you’re afraid to speak out against tyranny, you’re already a slave”

"If you are afraid to speak out against tyranny, you are already a slave" is a sayin that has been printed on many images. Authorship is unknown. "If you are afraid to speak out…

September 24, 2018
Food/Drink

“If you’re allergic to bananas, do you go into bananaphylactic shock?”

People who have banana allergies don't go into "bananaphylactic" (banana + anaphylactic) shock, but there are jokes. "For when Eric eats a banana, an amazing transformation…

August 4, 2019
Food/Drink

“If you’re always organizing things, you have OCD. If you’re always eating things, you have OBCD”

"OBCD" sounds like "obesity." "OBCD" weas entered in the Urban Dictionary on April 7, 2011. "OBCD" should not be confused with "OCD"…

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