"Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties."
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"Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to about the same thing."
"It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried."
"Everyone else is just cocktails."
"Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service."
"Twitter is the perpetual cocktail party where everyone is talking at once but nobody is saying anything."
"In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present."
"A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in."
"Without peanuts, it isn't a cocktail party."