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• The Banana Principle: If you buy bananas or avocados before they are ripe, there won't be any left by the time they are ripe.
  If you buy them ripe, they rot before they are eaten....
• What do Bill Clinton and a ripe lemon have in common? Both are yellow.
• Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say
  But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia....
• And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and ro
  And thereby hangs a tale. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), As You Like It -- Act ii, Sc. 7...
• What I want for the 1990's is to see demilitarisation of Europe and the survival of Salman Rushdie to a ripe old age.
• Pauca sed matura. [Few but excellent (or ripe).] -- Gau
• Fast Ripe, Fast Rotten. Japanese Proverb
• I'm not a big drinker. I just put away a lotta little ones.
  I mean to say I'm not a steady drinker--'cause I shake too much....
• What do you call a JAP on waterbed? A cherry float.