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Top 10 One-liners

Our volunteer judges sifted through our more than 750 entries to pick the top 10 one-liner, essay and (top 4) videos submitted to the Karen Quinn Wife in the Fast Lane Contest.

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Top One-liners (Vote for One)

Excuse Me?

I gave my female boss a hug and automatically started burping her!

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Kibbles and Kids

I looked down at the dog bowl on the floor to see it full of my two-year-old son’s cereal, milk, and a spoon. I then looked at the breakfast table to see my son curiously tasting his “breakfast.”

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Alone Time

I actually enjoyed being stuck in a JetBlue plane for 6 hours - and that was before we took off!

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Open Wide

….while talking about a problem over dinner, I absent-mindedly cut my colleague’s steak into bite size pieces.

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Twisted Sister

my sister compared me to Cinderella; I thought she meant I was beautiful until she said what she REALLY meant is that I’m too busy to clean my kitchen properly, which attracts mice and birds.

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Ready for a quick get-a-way

I found my car running on the 4th floor of the parking garage after a full day at work.

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Granny pants

I realized that my underwear selections had gotten much uglier over the years, and I just didn’t care.

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Would you like fries with that?

sex reminded me of the fast food drive-up….hot, fast and a quick stop on my way to do something else!

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We’re Doomed!

my microwave went out and my children cried because they did not know how they were going to eat…..

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sleep with me

my husband asked me what my favorite sexual fantasy was and I told him, “you making love to me without waking me up.”

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