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“Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.”

Deals Reform Pairs Reformers Trousers Windy Vehement Clotheslines

Author:Austin O'Malley

“South African schoolchildren set a world record this week by creating the world's longest clothesline. Hey, what do South Africans wash their clothes with? Apar-Tide!”

World Records Week Creating Clothes South Hey Tides South Africa World Records Clotheslines

Author:Dennis Miller

“My happiest childhood memories are of times in our backyard. My mother had an old clothesline that hung out in front. It seemed like it stretched a mile long, and I loved sitting in the sun while she hung clothes.”

Long Mother Memories Sun Childhood Fronts Clothes Sitting Miles Hung Backyards Childhood Memories Clotheslines

Book:Traci Lords: Underneath It All

Source: Traci Lords: Underneath It All

“I see these guys, they throw a guy into the ropes and they do a back flip and then clothesline the guy and it looks stupid. Why don't you just clothesline the guy?”

Looks Guy Stupid Rope Flip Clotheslines

Author:Owen Hart

“Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver.”

Long Country Miles Canada Vancouver Milan Clotheslines

Author:Simon Hoggart

“Forgiveness lives alone and far off down the road, but bitterness and art are close, gossipy neighbors, sharing the same clothesline, hanging out their things, getting their laundry confused.”

Art Forgiveness Neighbor Confused Hanging Out Bitterness Down The Road Laundry Clotheslines

Book:Self-help

Source: Self-help

“I don't want to know about the constitution of the rapist--I want to kill him! I don't care if he is white or black, if he is middle-class or poor, if his mother hung him from the clothesline by his balls: I only want to kill him! Any woman who has been raped will agree.”

Ifs Knows Want Has Beens Care Mother Black White Poor Class Middle Balls Constitution Agree Don't Care I Don't Care Middle Class Hung Clotheslines

Author:Diamanda Galas

“You might be a redneck if your daughter's Barbie's Dream House has a clothesline in the front yard.”

Ifs Dream Might House Fronts Daughter Yards Redneck You Might Be A Redneck If Your Daughter Barbie Dream House Clotheslines

Book:You Might Be A Redneck If ...This Is The Biggest Book You've Ever Read

Source: You Might Be A Redneck If ...This Is The Biggest Book You've Ever Read

“She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.”

Looks Wife Wind One Day Husband Clothes Window Doctors Hung Breeze Delighted Sleeves Maine Pajamas Dryers Clotheslines

Book:Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye

Source: Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye

“Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline. I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session.”

Source: The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd

“It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.”

Hard Poor Saws Paper Stupidity Toilets Toilet Paper Clotheslines

Author:George Lindsey

“If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you don't have to wait to start. Yours could be up by this afternoon. To be specific, buy 50 feet of clothesline and a $3 bag of clothespins and become a solar energy pioneer.”

Ifs Years Used Energy Waiting Millions Feet Plant Nuclear Bags Afternoon Coal Pioneers Nuclear Power Power Plants Solar Energy Clotheslines

Author:Bill McKibben

“A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display.”

Numbers Function Mathematics Display Sequence Hang Ups Clotheslines

Author:Herbert Wilf

“I see myself as a very successful entrepreneur. Maybe making films or else starting my own clothesline. I see myself as a corporate woman, sitting on the 16th floor of a swank office with a glass window that overlooks the Manhattan skyline.”

Film My Own Successful Office Sitting Window Entrepreneur Starting Glasses Corporate Manhattan Successful Entrepreneurs Skylines Clotheslines Swank

Author:Sushmita Sen