[simpleton]

Dreaming of a better future

February 2, 1998
New ones Monday through Friday

Pipe Dreams

Stupid Wishes for Smart People

[if I could just get my wife and my mistress to fall in love with each other...]

A pipe dream is a fantasy your heart makes up. We're all hard-bitten realists, when it comes to other people's lives. But somehow, when the subject turns to your own personal fairy tales, the imagination takes over...


[my baby's a genius!]

Oh yeah, it's easy to laugh at all those deluded saps. Mock on... Somewhere in there, you're telling your own set of lies; and you're the only one believing them....

[with all these chicks, why get married?]


[pretty soon, billions will be rolling in!]


[this new economy's for me!]


[i've got some great script ideas!]


[yeah, simpleton's a gold mine!]




Make a wish!



Previously in simpleton:



Friday: Disks of Food: A family restaurant for the nineties!
Thursday: Extinct is Forever: What if adventure died in the forest ....
Wednesday: Reader Mail: Volume 15
Tuesday: Hooray for Hollywood: Part 3
Monday: Super Bowl Survey. What are people saying?
Friday: Youth Discipline Industry News: The Voice of the teen suppression market since 1979
Thursday: The Name Game: Who do they think they am?


A century of simpletons in the simpleton archive.


Tomorrow:

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