(eq today (car (cdr life)))-- (Author unknown)
CommonLisp has other ways of saying car and cdr that, according to taste, either wreck that joke or clarify it.
[For example:
(eq today (first (rest your-life)))- JayOsako]
You can still say car and cdr, though... I think, by the way, that I prefer
(eq today (car (cdr (life you))))
Q: How many Lisp programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: A whole CAR full.
When my first wife left me, she took everything. The kids, the house, the car. She didn't even leave me the cdr!
Bumper sticker: "My other CAR is a CDR"
One day a student came to Moon and said: "I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons."
Moon patiently told the student the following story: