In this game, match straight lines with their punch lines.
Straight lines:
1. Corduroy pillows:
2. I drive way too fast
3. Early bird gets the worm,
4. I'm not cheap, but I'm
5. I'm gonna live forever:
6. If you aren't making waves,
7. Mind like a steel trap:
8. When everything's going your way …
9. I'm not in my right mind,
10. Everyone has a photographic memory …
11. Laughing stock:
12. Beauty is in the eye
Punch lines:
a. cattle with a sense of humor.
b. rusty and illegal in 37 states.
c. on special this week.
d. so far, so good.
e. they make headlines.
f. you aren't kicking hard enough.
g. you're in the wrong lane.
h. of the beer holder.
i. but the second mouse gets the cheese.
j. to worry about cholesterol.
k. but my left mind's getting crowded.
l. some just don't have any film.
Answers to Joke Machine game:
1-e, 2-j, 3-i, 4-c, 5-d, 6-f, 7-b, 8-g, 9-k, 10-l, 11-a, 12-h
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