# Humor Files: Tag Lines and One-Liners

Among the most popular approaches to humor in the BBS world and Internet has been the clever, witty, gets-you-in-the-back one-liner or "tag line", which contains an amount of humor way out of proportion to the statement that generates it. It's one thing to chuckle a few times when you read a multi-page story, but it's impressive to laugh out loud at a single sentence. Here's a collection of those single sentences.

Filename | Size | Description of the Textfile
1liners.cap | 57783 | Extremely Large Collection of One-Liners
ansafone.txt | 43174 | A Collection of Funny Answering Machine Messages
aphorism.txt | 6868 | Some General Profundities, Witticisms and General Wisdom
bbob | 2807 | Collection of One-Liners from BOB
blake.txt | 2248 | Blakeisms: Quotes from William Blake
bonehead.txt | 16338 | Steve's Big List of Quotes
cookie.2 | 45023 | The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer (January 14, 1989) Part 2
cookie.3 | 49756 | The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer (January 14, 1989) Part 3
cookie.4 | 38238 | The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer (January 14, 1989) Part 4
cookie.5 | 46978 | The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer (January 14, 1989) Part 5
cookie.6 | 32646 | The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer (January 14, 1989) Part 6
cookie.7 | 41825 | The Fortune Cookie File from Karl Lehenbauer (January 14, 1989) Part 7
cute.say | 4793 | A Collection of Cute Sayings from Michael J. Irvin (August 7, 1989)
fdt | 4120 | Some Taglines Seen on the SuperDuperInfoHighway and Byways
found.hum | 27482 | Collection of Amusing Quips, Quotes and Stories
fudd.txt | 5069 | A Collection of Elmer Fuddified Sayings and Taglines
grouchy.txt | 31514 | Some Quotes from Various People
misc_pro.quo | 3754 | Miscellaneous Programmer Quotes
morequot.jok | 1479 | Quotes from Lecturers at Cambridge University
oscar.wil | 982 | Quotes of Oscar Wilde
quoterwz.txt | 43083 | The Big Ol' Quotes File
quotes-1.txt | 46721 | Large Collection of Jokes and Quotes
quotes-2.txt | 55855 | Second Part to the Large Collection of Jokes and Quotes
quotes.bug | 2384 | Collection of Lesser Known Quotes from the Engineers of Hewlett Packard
quotes.frt | 102576 | Large Collection of Funny Quotes
quotes.hum | 24619 | Some Random Quotes from Around the World
quotes.jok | 16782 | Collection of Interesting Quotes from All Over
quotes.txt | 35079 | Some Quotes from the Usenet Newsgroup "rec.arts.comics"
quotes2.hum | 23381 | Some Additional Random Quotes From Around the World
quotes2.txt | 15244 | Very Large Collection of Historical Quotes
random.txt | 4250 | Random Assortment of Taglines
taglines.txt | 25856 | Alphabetized Collection of Computer-Oriented Taglines
text.txt | 98645 | Large Collection of Quotes

There are 33 files for a total of 957,352 bytes.