I am absolutely sick unto death of hearing people say - they all say this; it must be Item One on the curriculum in Trend College - "I just hate to talk to a machine!" They say this as though it is a major philosophical position, as opposed to a description of a minor neurosis. My feeling is, if you have a problem like this, you shouldn't go around trumpeting it; you should stay home and practice talking to a machine you can feel comfortable with, such as your Water Pik, until you are ready to assume your place in modern society.
Dave BarryThere are two distinctive classes of people today, those who have personal computers, and those who have several thousand extra dollars apiece.
Dave BarryIf Charles Lindbergh, flying with no instruments other than a bologna sandwich, managed to cross the Atlantic and land safely on a runway completely covered with French people, why are today's airplanes, which are equipped with radar and computers and individualized liquor bottles, unable to cope with fog?
Dave BarrySnowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.
Dave BarryWe journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.
Dave Barry