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Dave Barry
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: July 3
Actor
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Armonk (New York)
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If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.
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One of the major hobbies in South Florida is keeping animals that no sane person would want to keep. One of those is snakes. They usually get them when they're small, and when they get too big, they let them go. But there are also people with monkeys, lions, tigers. And they all get away, eventually.
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You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings - even the truth.
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As a professional journalist, I am always looking for new ways to get paid for being motionless.
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Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home.
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The science fair has long been a favorite educational tool in the American school system, and for a good reason: Your teachers hate you.
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I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
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Millions of Americans own dogs, because they are good-natured, simple, and easily amused. I am referring here to the Americans. The dogs are not exactly Mensa members either, but they definitely make better pets than tropical fish.
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Every year, hundreds of thousands of people try their hand at this demanding profession (humor columnist). After a few months, almost all of them have given up and gone back to the ninth grade.
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Recently I began to feel this void in my life, even after meals, and I said to myself, Dave, all you do with your spare time is sit around and drink beer. You need a hobby. So I got a hobby. I make beer.
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A printer consists of three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.
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The badness of a movie is directly proportional to the number of helicopters in it.
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I was a young person once, shortly after the polar ice caps retreated, and I distinctly recall believing that virtually all adults were clueless goobers.
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If Peter was nine, and a new boy came to St. Norbert’s Home for Wayward Boys who said he was ten, why, then, Peter would declare himself eleven. Also, he could spit the farthest. That made him the undisputed leader.
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We idolized the Beatles, except for those of us who idolized the Rolling Stones, who in those days still had many of their original teeth.
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I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits.
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A gene can be either dominant or recessive, depending on which type of gene it is.
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Please try not to be such a wiener-head.
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What I need is a search engine that, no matter what I type in, comes back with GO BACK TO WORK.
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