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Every time I see Dan Quayle I feel like buying a vowel.
Emo Philips
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Emo Philips
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: February 7
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Chicago
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I pray a simple prayer every morning. It's an ecumenical prayer. Whether you're Catholic or Jewish or Muslim or Hindu, I think it speaks to the heart of every faith. It goes “Lord please break the laws of the universe for my convenience. Amen.”
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My mother was like a sister to me, only we didn't have sex quite so often.
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Once I was in a restaurant and I dropped my fork on the floor, and they gave me a new fork. So I pushed my girlfriend out of her chair.
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Once I posed nude for a magazine. I've never been back to THAT newstand.
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