unearths some literary gems.
[Adding to our incipient "funny lines about Manx cats" theme...]
"Maybe he's only part Manx."
"Which part? The tail?"
[Later]
Then he wagged the tail he didn't have.
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[Which soda is funniest? dept.]
Anyone with enough brute strength to pull the ring top off a can of Dr Pepper can knock [luggage locks] loose with a hammer.
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"Two different excuses, first a burrito and then a burglary. Both words are on the same page of the dictionary, but of course you know that. That's the page you break all your dates from, isn't it? [....] We could make another date...but I'd only get a phone call advising me that you wouldn't be able to make it because you'd been eaten by a bugbear. Or bummed out, or bumped off, or some bumptious buckaroo had burst your bubble."
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He was waiting for me to pull a rabbit out of a hat, and hoping to come out of the evening with something for his troubles. Either the rabbit or the hat, I suppose.
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