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. |