“The dog ate my homework” (student excuse)
"The dog ate my homework" is the classic lame excuse that a student makes to a teacher to cover for missing homework. It's not known what student first made the excuse. "The dog…
"The dog ate my homework" is the classic lame excuse that a student makes to a teacher to cover for missing homework. It's not known what student first made the excuse. "The dog…
American author and organizational consultant Warren Bennis (1925-2014) said, as quoted in The Millionaire's Book of Quotations (1991) by Mark Fisher: "The factory of the future will have…
"The horse doesn't know what its odds are" is a horse racing adage of unknown authorship. "A horse doesn't know what the odds are" was said in 1971 by a fan called…
"The horse I bet on was so slow," an old joke goes, "that the jockey kept a diary of the trip." The joke was credited to Jewish-American singer and actor Al Jolson (1886-1950)…
"The internet is a lot like ancient Egypt. People write on walls and worship cats" is a jocular saying that has been printed on many images. "The internet is like ancient Egypt:…
U. S. Senator Ted Stevens (1923-2010) of Alaska said in 2006 that "the Internet...is a series of tubes." The comment was widely ridiculed in the Internet community. Cat videos are popular…
"The internet is full of cats because dog people actually go outside" is a jocular one-line saying. "The internet is full of cats because dog people go outside" was cited on…
"Fun Fact: The internet was once a fun place for watching cat videos instead of monitoring the real-time collapse of late-stage capitalism" is a saying that has been printed on many…
A popular joke is that parts of Texas are so flat and treeless that "you can watch your dog run away for three days." (The time varies; sometimes it's two days or even two weeks.)…
Many people use their pets' names for passwords. "72% of all computer passwords are names of deceased pets" was posted on Twitter on May 31, 2008. "Passwords: the only thing…
The United States Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing starts with the Kentucky Derby (at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky), then goes to the Preakness Stakes (at Pimlico Race Course in…
"The noblest of all dogs is the hot dog; it feeds the hand that bites it" is a one-line joke that has been printed on several gift items, such as posters and T-shirts. ""The hot…
"The relationship of a journalist to a politician should be that of a dog to a lamppost" is a witty statement that is frequently credited to American journalist and critic H. L. Mencken…
"The sun doesn't/don't shine on the same dog's ass/back/butt/eyes/tail every day/all the time/forever" means that one can't expect to get lucky and have some nice…
"The U.S. dollar is the best-looking horse in the glue factory" is a statement that has been used by many American financial leaders. A glue factory is where old, sick horses go to die;…
The 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic was officially declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. A joke on the title of the song "Who Let the Dogs Out"…
"There are a thousand ways to lose a horse race and only one way to win" is an old horse racing adage. "Jim Fitzsimmons has contended for many years that there are 1,500 ways to lose…
"There are two kinds of congressmen -- show horses and work horses" was frequently said by Carl Hayden (1877-1972) of Arizona, who was a Representative (1912-1927) and a Senator…
"There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man" (that is, riding a horse improves a person's mental or physical health) has often been credited…
"There never was a horse that couldn't be rode or a man that couldn't be throwed" is a bit of cowboy wisdom that's been attributed to Will James (1892-1942), a cowboy…