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  1. If you kiss an electric blanket you only get fuzz in your mouth.
  2. Two years, eleven months, two days, an hour and a half.
  3. It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
  4. Coffee is for grownups.
  5. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
  6. Loseabago
  7. Jan and I have an agreement about haircuts. She gets to decide how her hair is cut, and she gets to decide how my hair is cut.
  8. well, well, well... (pause) three holes in the ground.
  9. Did I say that? Well, I lied.
  10. This sentence is in German when nobody is looking.
  11. To make a decision, look in the mirror. Pick the one that produces the biggest grin.
  12. I'm from the government, and I'm here to help you.
  13. Life is hard, and then you die.
  14. Phil, try not to sing.
  15. The only thing worse that generalizing from a sample space of one is generalizing from a sample space of zero
  16. Bad day with your stick, eh? I hear that about you....
  17. Did I say that? Well, I lied.
  18. [your name]@#$%&! (in response to allowing an unharassed shot while Phil was goaltending)
  19. me: "hey, can you blow up your car-i mean blow up a picture of your car?" phil: "what? you want me to blow up my car?"
  20. YAILWAD (Yet another interpreted language without a debugger)
  21. Who else owes me a million dollars? Jim Clark, Michael Toy, Kipp Hickman... I own half of Netscape!
  22. I called the ball and the pocket. How it got there ...
  23. You are one sick puppy.
  24. Oh, Phil! (Said by Jan when Phil was acting silly)
  25. "TOFBG" (The Old Fat Bald Guy)
  26. Each of us thinks we're the lucky one.
  27. How many hands am I holding up?
  28. I consider it "bad" but not incorrect. (I suppose as the perpetrator I have to claim that it is not incorrect.)
  29. At least one of us is seriously confused.
  30. Huh? What we have here is a failure to communicate. It could be I just don't understand your words.
  31. OK, I'll byte.
  32. Not through the middle!! (yelled at you when you cleared the puck in fron of Phil while he was in goal)
  33. Play with the ball Phil! (he would yell at himself in hockey sometimes)
  34. Which word didn't you understand?
  35. This kind of rotor is known as a squirrel-cage rotor because the way it's wound is like a bird cage.