Orts #752
People often accuse me of "stealing others' jokes" and being "a plagiarist”.
Their words, not mine . . .
They used to laugh when I said I wanted to be a comedian.
Well, they're not laughing now!
Apparently true story: Chess master Boris Spassky was asked by a reporter, "Which do you prefer, chess or sex?”
Spassky replied, "It very much depends on the position”.
A patient of mine had a Freudian slip the other day. He was talking to his wife during dinner, and instead of asking her to pass the salt he said, "you've ruined my life, you insufferable shrew."
— Niles Crane, psychiatrist on the late lamented TV series Frasier