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Okay I am tired of seeing: "You Win, Ed"
Great, what am I going to do with Ed? I cannot afford to feed him and I sure ain't going to pay to fly a complete stranger to my home in the first place!
So, here is the thought: A Wellerism is after Sam Weller in Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers, make fun of established clichés and proverbs by showing that they are wrong in certain situations, often when taken literally. In this sense, wellerisms that include proverbs are a type of anti-proverb. Typically a Wellerism consists of three parts: a proverb or saying, a speaker, and an often humorously literal explanation.
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‎"A mime is a terrible thing to waste," the assassin silently regretted.
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‎"I don't believe we've met," said Ichiro to his new Yankee's team mates.
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‎"I am feeling blue," Papa Smurf confided.
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"I don't give a crap" said the Porta-Potty cleaner.
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"I sees yer car" said the car-jacker as he drove away.
I actually prefer Swiftism myself.
"That's the last time I'll stick my arm in a lion's mouth," the lion-tamer said off-handedly.
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"That's not how the procedure is done," the proctologist rudely butted in.
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"I see," said the blind carpenter as he picked up his hammer and saw.
When I was young, I was Liberal. As I aged and wised up, I became Conservative. Now that I'm old, I have settled on Curmudgeon.
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"You're only young once," said a naive Shirley MacLaine during the first incarnation.
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"I just can't see myself buying a mirror," the vampire reflected.
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Dang! You dug up one old topic! 
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