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Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Can a man of 29 fall in love with a girl of 14?

  • Added: May 22, 2009
  • Length: 01:52
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
There ain't nothing on television

  • Added: May 21, 2009
  • Length: 02:21
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
In Maine it is either too hot or too cold to put on or take off storm windows.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: May 13, 2009
  • Length: :37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
There are people who are distressed at the thought of gay marriage.

  • Added: May 12, 2009
  • Length: 02:41
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Corporate America has produced a pill that combats obesity

  • Added: Mar 26, 2009
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Put him out on the speaking circuit for the next year and use his fee to make a token payment to the people he cheated

  • Added: Mar 18, 2009
  • Length: 02:14
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
The company asked me to sign a release so they could bill my insurance company $220 for something one can buy on line for $19.95

  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 04:29
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You might think your daughter is doing well if she is dating a grad student on a full fellowship.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 09, 2009
  • Length: 02:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You should know what you're doing before you go white water rafting.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: :29
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
One evening when my friend Winky was reading the newspaper he said to his wife, "Here's a man up in Rangeley who was shot for a moose."

  • Added: Feb 27, 2009
  • Length: :24
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Have you noticed that all of a sudden there is a lot of opposition to the bailouts?

  • Added: Feb 24, 2009
  • Length: :16
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
In 1945 any American who had any kind of job could buy a home.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2009
  • Length: 03:19
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Almost 800,000 dog bites every year are serious enough to receive medical attention -- 30 or so people are killed by dogs in this country in any gi...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2009
  • Length: :57
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
If you are not rich, famous or handsome, you don’t need to feel that you’ve missed out on something.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2009
  • Length: :54
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
People in northern Maine don't operate like the people in southern Maine

  • Added: Feb 12, 2009
  • Length: 01:12
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
You can't believe a thing Winky says.

  • Added: Feb 11, 2009
  • Length: :21
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Individual bank deposits are only insured by the federal government up to $100,000

  • Added: Feb 10, 2009
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A sociologist at Harvard, has just published a study proving that everything is youth oriented in the present decade.

  • Added: Feb 09, 2009
  • Length: :39
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
American adults demand quality entertaiment on television

  • Added: Feb 08, 2009
  • Length: :41
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Thanks to Al Peel who invented dry skin, women now spend billions every year for moist skin.

  • Added: Feb 06, 2009
  • Length: 02:05
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Some people have to be told to come in out of the cold

  • Added: Feb 04, 2009
  • Length: 01:29
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A football player for the Boston Redskins made the Guineas Book of Records by playing 12 months without having broken knees or cartilage repaired b...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: :41
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
A woman unable to understand the metric system was crushed up against the wall by an oven overflowing with fudge brownie mix.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2009
  • Length: :59
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
Before 500 million years ago, species appeared and stayed. Since then, however, evolution has been fairly rapid. Most species now last no more th...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2009
  • Length: :47
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
When many men hear talk about a six pack of firm abs, they reach down and lovingly pat one firm ab caused by too many six packs.

  • Added: Feb 01, 2009
  • Length: :28