Dave Barry: Person

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“A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.”

Nonfiction, Dave Barry Turns 50 (1998)

“Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?”

“I would not know how I am supposed to feel about many stories if not for the fact that the TV news personalities make sad faces for sad stories and happy faces for happy stories.”

“normal person's weekly chore list:
1. clean kitchen.
2. clean bathroom.
3. clean entire rest of domicile.
cleaning impaired person's weekly chore list:
1. don't get peanut butter on sheets.”

“It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.”

"The Funny Side of 'Beowulf'", The Miami Herald, November 2, 1997.
Columns and articles

“In the words of a very famous dead person, 'A nation that does not know its history is doomed to do poorly on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.”

Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States

“I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer.”

“Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home.”

Source: Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have around the Home

“The problem is, when Oprah lost all that weight, her head didn't get any smaller. And so she looks kind of like a person carrying a balloon.”

Playboy interview, May 1990
Columns and articles

“In the case of the Extravaganza of the Seas, the owner of record was a man named Bobby Kemp, who was usually described in the newspaper as a millionaire entrepreneur. Kemp liked the look of that, entrepreneur, although he personally could not pronounce it.”

Source: Novels, Tricky Business (2002), Chapter 2