Quotes & Jokes by Bill Bailey / page 2

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Three blind mice walk into a pub. But they are all unaware of their surroundings, so to derive humor from it would be exploitative.

On GM crops: I think we've missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of velcro, to catch whatever it is that's forming those crop circles. But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding velcro so it's a bit of a long shot.

This was my attempt to deter cold callers: "There's no past, there's no future, just one pulsating present... Please leave your message after the tone."

Yes. Yes, when we live our life like 1950s detective films. I often go to my fridge, "Hullo, we're out of milk. I say mother, where's the milk?"

How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! ...no eight!

I am Zebedee, lord of the woods! Bow down snail, I have dominion!

I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of entropy when all it's thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endeavors ultimately pointless. Just to put the gig in some sort of context.

Nostalgia: How long's that been around?

What I'd like to do now - well, what I'd like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.

I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

But our country's equivalent of gritty reality is more like "Look out Sarge, he's got a shooter!"

The scotch egg is such a Scottish food. It's as though a great Scottish chef said: I need a tasty snack. Let's take an egg... and wrap it in meat!! Makes it a bit harder.

I got ham but I'm not a Hamster