to coin a phrase...

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For years, I had no
idea how slot machines worked.
Then the penny dropped...

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(17 Sillybles)

an incorrect form of address?...

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I can't wait for Trump
to send out his first State of
the Union tweet!...

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(17 Sillybles)

if she tries it on in bed, make sure you've taken it off first...

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it's far easier
to make love in your twenties
than in your onesies...

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(17 Very Sillybles)

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Metric signposts? They're miles better than imperial ones...

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(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, March 23)

Not so much a manipulator, more an inanimate objectipulator...

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I'm no puppeteer,
but I had to pull a lot
of strings to get here...

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(17 Syllables)

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Deerstalkers. They're so old hat...

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(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, March 28)

is this the way - to tell jokes?...

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Jane prefers metric
signposts: "they're miles better than
imperial ones"...

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('Dumb blondes': 17 Syllables)

3 - 2 - 1...

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Making love: is it better in your thirties than
in your twenties? Who knows? But it's certainly
better than in your onesies...

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the house party...

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letting your hair down's
fine, son - letting your parents
down's quite another...

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(17 Syllables)

a rose by any other name...

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The difference between
school and marriage? Homework. It
just becomes housework...

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(17 Syllables)

the world in cr-ISIS...

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Syria, Iraq,
Afghanistan: Planet Earth?
Or terror firma?..

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(17 Syllables)

'do not enter'tainment?...

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'Adult shop' read the
sign. Time flies. I knew it when
it was still a child...

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(17 Sillybles)

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Sadly, I only mastered one of the three 'R's - reading and writing...

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(Vincent Hefter, Daily Mail, March 1)