Findings:

• I'm sorry I was speeding, officer, but I really have to get to the hospital
• I keep thinking I'm so tough but I rarely care enough to prove it. So am I really tough then? Or does every dog just have its day?
• The Firestone dealership was full to the brim with cars. But I reasoned I would need a boat, since my desire was to go to Ireland. Just then a harsh reminder surfaced; water is expensive in hell.
• I thought he was a man but he was just a little boy
• collecting on old debts from when mom was a loan shark
• the fire burned and burned; it was so great and now so much time has passed and the fire is still burning, but it requires attendance
• Once upon a time there was an ocean but now there is a mountain range.
• it was just as if she held her breath for 82 years
• The flowers smiled, but she was gone
• Death arrived shortly thereafter, but we were both far too busy to bother with one another just yet
• not like the shoe and not like the ring but just like the heart
• just because it was an accident doesn't mean it'll come back to life
• He was born with the gift of logic but the inability to use it
• Pragmatism, A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
• Friends and lovers, but sometimes just friends
• What was I thinking when I said it didn't hurt?
• For to lose I could accept but to surrender I just wept
• I love you, but you've just got to leave and not come back. Ever.
• but fuck, it was Sunday and the church bells hadn't even called the faithful
• I was pretty sure that wasn't how slasher films were supposed to end, but you won't see me complaining.
• I would've suggested just shooting Cupid down, but Faust would’ve objected, so we stuck with the net
• It's just a doll, but it's a million times more real than your chemicals
• I don't think I was rude to her, just cold and curt
• Removed from humanity, I realized I was just another distraction
• i thought i was special, but it was you
• I was just a supporting character in your fairy tale
• It was too late by the time the robots came and I couldn't, I just couldn't
• she was just the dry smell of gasoline
• The Box Said 'Do NOT Open" But The Seal Was Already Broken
• But I have seen the sun just once
• I was thinking I could clean up for Christmas
• When I was ten years old
• Which God was cooler, the one from the Old Testament or the one from the New Testament?
• I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.
• I bind these books, but I can't write in them; I just can't
• The Children's Story... (but not just for children)
• The Marlboro Man died of cancer, but he wasn't a rocket scientist when he was healthy, ha ha ha.
• How Gudrun cast herself into the Sea, but was brought ashore again
• The real horror was not what had been redacted, but the reasons why.
• but you had his eyes and that was sort of almost enough
• but we turn everything we touch to shit; we just can't let beauty stand
• old chestnut: all but two
• Once upon a time there was light in my life, but now there's only love in the dark
• Not just Everything, but INFINITE TURBO EVERYTHING HAPPY FISH
• I didn't have the heart to tell him I was lying about taco night, but at least the hellhound made some friends
• It was hormones, it was hormones, but it was valid
• The gun is good. The penis is evil. The penis shoots seeds, and makes new life, and poisons the earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the gun shoots death, and purifies the earth of the filth of brutals. Go forth and kill!
• Study, study, study, but maybe just to learn
• I don't know why but I always love episodes without words. like just something about them makes me feel calm or something..
• Just how perfect was Jesus?
• Sympathy for the Mongols & How The Rise of the West was just sheer Dumb Luck
• This is an old tradition that I just made up
• Am I insane, or is it just wishful thinking?
• i might look like a grown person, but i'm just a tiny confused scientist
• The one thing I wanted more than anything was for someone, just once, to tell me they don't know what they'd do without me
• Old men never die, they just spout poetry
• It was just a crush
• Old people just grow lonesome
• That was what her hunger was like: mesmerizing, directed, floating like a public secret just under the cloud cover.
• There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to.
• Noding for Numbers sure was silly, but it sure is better than Dada Fascism
• the desert was once alive, but I don't remember it
• All the while he was talking she was thinking what his whiskers would feel like on the back of her neck
• It's really very silly, I was thinking, they are all acting so weird
• She was thinking of a boy in California who had a couch and a job
• But what are they really thinking?
• Food was purer in the good old days
• I died for Beauty -- but was scarce
• There was an old lady
• They wrote it all in perl but it was mostly system calls
• I was wrong as a child, to think old people were stupid for asking me where the day had gone. Now I understand... we older people do not live.
• strange and too short but I was lonely
• I was once smaller than a jellybean, but now look at me - I am macroscopic!
• my love in your garden grows, but let's pretend it's just a rose
• Seems I might have stolen the blue part of her rainbow, but all I really did was make it bigger, a way bigger blue
• He stretched out his arms but she was not there
• I was burned and bleeding, but the galaxy still spun on
• Somebody told me a story. It was pretty but boring. It was Saturday night, my stories usually end up that way.
• I'm not a dyke just 'cause I shaved my head, but if it keeps certain people away, fuckin' A right on
• Tell me a story about a burro, standing atop a mesa, surrounded by a flock of geese, being fed by a weathered old man wearing nothing but a Jimmy hat
• Friends and lovers, but sometimes just lovers
• I bought an orange, but it was a grapefruit
• when I am King, we will have no such things, but, my lads, if the old king my father were dead, we would be all kings.
• I won't tell you the real reason why I hate you, but I'll tell you another which is just as good
• I am sorry but when you were talking I was admiring the shape of your lips and evaluating their kissability
• This is just an ordinary well. You think there is more to it, but it is just an ordinary well
• He had fallen in love, but I'm pretty sure the hellhound was only in it for the belly rubs
• I was shaking, but not from the cold
• It wasn't so much a trip down memory lane as it was me carjacking someone's memorymobile and speeding off down the freeway, but I digress.
• But beauteous fields lie just before me
• The serpent was in the garden again, but there weren't any apples left in the tree, so I figured things were cool.
• The virgin was looking apprehensive about the whole ordeal, but for the right amount of cash anyone will take on a horse
• We All Get Old, But We Never Grow Up
• /but what was the question?
• I was in heaven, I was in hell. Believed in niether but feared them as well.
• She didn't write like Emily Dickinson, but she did live in a house overlooking a cemetery, and I guess he thought that was important.
• There was silence in my heart, but you found a way to break it.
• Jessica, too tall but still lovely, was not sure she would or should drop the whale
• we went to the stars, but all we found was ourselves
• I'm looking at the river, but I'm thinking of the sea
• It was a dream. But it wasn't a dream.
• don't just wait for it, but you can only wait for it
• i wish i felt like teaching today, but i just want to be selfish
• hodgepodge was just a one-night stand, apparently
• Thinking of doing something is sometimes just as bad as actually doing it
• The last girl I dated was a vegetarian. We couldn't go anywhere and so it just didn't work out.
• Just how old is James, exactly?
• I swear I just came here for a sandwich, but do you remember me?
• I don't know what he was listening for, but he wasn't listening
• I can never be sure if it was real or just another illusion
• (because this was always subconsciously the inspiration, even if I did not know it at the time, and I only realised it just now)
• There was a lot of blood, but the boys needed it
• History is not just for the past, but for the future
• Just standing there, wearing my boxers, in my driveway. I was watching the stormfront. You were watching me.
• We were all thinking it, I just said it
• Last time I checked, Buddha was not just some lameass winamp skin for Jesus
• This Star Wars sheet may be worth something, but I just need a tablecloth
• The demon was just under three feet tall
• born under candlelight just from the edge of a knife, was it a life? or was it a light at all?
• That's Just How He Was
• there was a time when you couldn't just learn things instantly
• Jesus was a reactionary reformer, just like Martin Luther in later years.
• Was the Black Death really just Anthrax?
• one was giving me the eye but nothing came of it
• Oh, no. Look, you've gone and made me optimistic. I was before, but now it is showing.
• Where was that stooped and mealy-colored old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• Where was that stooped and mealy-coloured old man I used to call poppa when the merry-go-round broke down?
• When I was five years old, I knew I was going to die
• How Candide Was Obliged to Leave the Fair Cunegund and the Old Woman
• It all turned out all right but there was so much pain along the way
• What the hell was she thinking?
• Before I was consciously thinking of him, my body was
• Music was better in the old days
• There was just the magic I'd brought and laid there over the years, piled up in the corners like twinkling dust bunnies
• A new broom sweeps clean, but an old broom knows every corner
• butt naked
• I'd tell you but then I'd have to kill you
• Mr. Butts
• Words that sound dirty but really aren't
• There is no god but God
• Butt hinge
• I may not know anything but I know I'm not American
• But my computer really IS possessed
• Butt crack of dawn
• Lots of MIPS but no I/O
• Things people put up their butts
• Project B.U.T.T.
• John Cassavettes Was No Help At All
• I am no doubt moving. The question now is not where, but how. My life changes everyday. Big deal.
• I love you, I want you, but you are a cruel monster
• But I digress
• If I could slip this skin but for a moment
• Sorry, but I AM my fucking khakis
• My library books are late, but I don't care
• Sexist jokes
• Yard Butt
• Figures don't lie, but liars can figure
• Not really by the rules, but...
• No, but I'll have a beer
• Free but worthless shares
• Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me
• Junk mail never has to spell your name right, but important stuff does
• I know you are, but what am I?
• You might be on a diet but you can still look at the menu
• Why mirrors reverse left and right, but not up and down
• I may not have had enough of me but I've had enough of you
• Opposites may attract, but is it a good idea?
• You need a license to have a dog, but any idiot can have a child

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