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Editor’s Note:<\/strong> I felt like I was going to be one of them recently. Thankfully on the mend. Life is good. Live it while you have it.<\/p>\n

– Vic<\/p>\n

Author’s note:<\/strong> Thanks to my readers who submitted many of these additions.<\/p>\n

Marlow<\/p>\n

\"071217-LIT\"<\/p>\n

Taxpayer: “I’m spending this year dead for tax purposes.”<\/p>\n

Voltaire: “To the living we owe respect, but we owe the truth to the dead.”<\/p>\n

Monty Python: “Bring out your dead . . . I’m not dead yet . . . . . . yes, you are.”<\/p>\n

Diner: “I want my food dead, not sick, not wounded, not dying — dead.”<\/p>\n

Light bulb: “I am on until I am dead.”<\/p>\n

Me: “I lived in DC at the bottom of a cul de sac off of a pipe stem dead end. Go figure.”<\/p>\n

Philosopher: “Why is the past the only dead thing that smells sweet?”<\/p>\n

Speed freak: “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.”<\/p>\n

Me (again): “Never speak ill of the dead or the trial the judge who is hearing your case.”<\/p>\n

Snickering Campbell Soup can: “Avant garde art is dead.”<\/p>\n

Pedestrian: “There are two kinds of jaywalkers, the quick and the dead.”<\/p>\n

Citizens: “All politicians are great patriots, humanitarians and friends of the people, provided that they really and truly dead.”
\nMe (one last time — I promise): “Why isn’t Elvis alive and all his impersonators dead?”<\/p>\n

Copyright \u00a9 2017 From My Isle Seat
\nwww.vicsocotra.com<\/p>\n

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