“It is an indication that my mental buttery is butterless and my mental larder lardless,
And it consists not of "Stop me if you've heard this one," but of "I know you've heard this one because I told it to you myself, but I'm going to tell it to you again regardless…"”

—  Ogden Nash

Good Intentions (1942), So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much

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