Mixed Grill XXXIII

If you don't agree with me you're wrong, but don't worry.

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I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself (Oscar Wilde)

A far cry – It must be 4 AM.

If you build it they will come – Lego

European Union – Oxymoron

Dog daze – A spaniel in the works

Bourne again – It gets repetitive after a while

Gone with the wind – There ain't no good sandlots any more

Joseph Haydn – The multicolor coat may be in much demand, but no one will find it

Make love, not war – I wonder. Love may get us out of a depression, but war got us out of the Depression

True grits – A taste of hominy

Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off until the day after – (Mark Twain and others)

Oh what a beautiful mourning – Doesn't she look natural?

Money burns a hole in my pocket – Especially if it's hot

Computer generation – The generation that generates computers

The great American novel – President Trump

Chapstick – British gentleman's cane

State lottery – Taxing the poor

American exceptualism – The belief that laws you don't like don't apply to you

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas (Aldous Huxley)

ACLU – Defender of whatever the Board feels like cloaking in virtue

Fair & Balanced – After all, what can a thumb weigh? (There's an article about that in the Times. It's based on their experience)

French lesson – Don't bother. No matter what you do they'll scoff

Melting pot – Idea as outdated as E Pluribus Unum

Pass the ammunition – Atheist version of WWII song title

Don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but Newton – Certainly not near William Tell's son

Gregg – You expected more?

This little piggy went to market – And he lost a fortune believing that his stocks would go up and make him rich

Herbert von Karajan – Had to put his baton with his stored baggage after 9/11

Fauré's Requiem – He had to kill some Frenchmen when he raided their work places but he was duly penitent

Julius Caesar – And hold her. You certainly won't need a cohort

Top soil – Ring around the collar

Jolly Green Giant – I prefer Friendly and Rusty

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Even if you agree with me you're wrong.