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majorshrapnel
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Date Posted：2024-10-09 08:26:30Copy HTML Growing old is something you do if you're lucky It is impossible to design anything that is foolproof because fools are ingenious Before I speak I have something important to say Groucho Marx You know that look that women get when they want sex? Me neither Steve Martin When choosing between two evils I always pick the one I haven't tried before Mae West There are a number of mechanical devices which increase the sexual arousal of women, a Ferrari is one of them P J O'Rourke A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove you don't need it Bob Hope All I ask is a chance to prove that money won't make me happy Spike Milligan A secret is something that is only repeated to one person at a time Robert McCrum |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-02-01 02:30:31Copy HTML "The rich get their ice in the summer; the poor get theirs in the winter." Bat Masterson former lawman who died at his desk in NYC in 1921. He was a sportswriter for a NY newspaper at the time, & those words were on the typewriter paper he was working on. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-02-04 04:13:37Copy HTML In the 18th century in England a tax on windows was enacted so people bricked them up to avoid it, which is where we get the saying, daylight robbery |
MarkUK
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-02-04 06:45:56Copy HTML You can still find houses today with windows bricked up 200 years ago.
You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-02-05 03:54:00Copy HTML "A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." H.L. Mencken |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-02-11 10:59:56Copy HTML Communism is a great idea, wrong species.
Jimmy Carr |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-02-15 06:09:17Copy HTML "I'd rather be governed by the first few 100 people in the Boston or Manhattan telephone directory than the faculty of Harvard University."
William F. Buckley Jr. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-02-15 08:27:36Copy HTML One of the first things that Trump did was to withdraw funds from the maniacs infesting America’s finest universities, or should I say once finest universities, before they were taken over by the left-wing bacteria |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-02-19 05:07:56Copy HTML "Politics is taking a common problem & blaming someone else." Mario Cuomo, former governor of NY State. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-02-26 10:41:47Copy HTML I’m a Jew, we don’t eat pork but I don’t tell the local grocery store they can’t sell bacon.
Senator Randy Fine speaking to Tommy Robinson about Islam |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-03-01 08:47:38Copy HTML An empty taxi pulled up outside of number 10 Downing Street and Attlee got out
Churchill |
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MarkUK
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-03-01 09:15:49Copy HTML Perhaps my favourite political quote. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-03-01 09:54:32Copy HTML He’s being economical with the truth.
Sir Robert Armstrong |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-03-13 01:47:43Copy HTML If God exists he'll have to beg me for forgiveness
Inscription on a wall in Auchwitz.
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-03-13 03:02:00Copy HTML I want to find somebody on earth so intelligent he welcomes opinions he condemns. John Jay Chapman |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-03-17 09:45:00Copy HTML They are not after me, they are after you. I just happens to be in the way.
Trump |
shula
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-03-18 12:47:05Copy HTML The Blessed St. Patrick, we are told, died on this day in the year of our Lord 461, and leave it to the Irish to be carrying on a wake for 1500 years. Ronald Reagan, 17 March 1987 "It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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MarkUK
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-03-18 08:31:23Copy HTML I've seen his grave at Downpatrick, although there's an ugly rumour that it's merely a Victorian tourist attraction. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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shula
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-03-18 09:10:55Copy HTML Most famous graves probably are, especially the old, old ones. The prospect for grave robbing would be too great I would think, either for loot or body parts.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-03-21 08:09:25Copy HTML "There's no medals for trying." Bill Parcells |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-03-23 07:09:41Copy HTML "Trust everyone, but cut the cards." Finley Peter Dunne |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-03-25 10:44:07Copy HTML "There are many humorous things in the world, among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages." Mark Twain. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-03-25 01:04:25Copy HTML "Everything looks simple when you don't know the first thing about it." Kevin Williamson |
