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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:2026-07-21 01:02:45Copy HTML Never start a sentence with a number??? |
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majorshrapnel
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-07-21 06:28:24Copy HTML One time I did. |
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shula
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-07-21 11:18:11Copy HTML I committed a crime in a previous post by using the number 5 instead of five. I didn't start the sentence with it, though. "It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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shula
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-07-22 10:27:24Copy HTML We all commit grammatical errors on occasion. We commit spelling errors and we omit critical words. Nowadays no one thinks anything of it. In 1631 printers Robert Barker and Martin Lucas published what they thought was about 1000 copies of the Holy Bible. Two critical errors changed their lives. In Exodus 20:14 the word "not" was left out of "Thou shalt not commit adultery" and in Deuteronomy 5:24, the word "greatness" appears as "great-asse" making a sentence read "Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and his great-asse". The printers were charged, heavily fined and lost their printing license.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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tommytalldog
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-07-22 11:48:29Copy HTML We all commit grammatical errors on occasion. We commit spelling errors and we omit critical words. Nowadays no one thinks anything of it. In 1631 printers Robert Barker and Martin Lucas published what they thought was about 1000 copies of the Holy Bible. Two critical errors changed their lives. In Exodus 20:14 the word "not" was left out of "Thou shalt not commit adultery" and in Deuteronomy 5:24, the word "greatness" appears as "great-asse" making a sentence read "Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and his great-asse". The printers were charged, heavily fined and lost their printing license. And the Nuns gave me a F for a dangling participle. |
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tommytalldog
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-07-27 03:51:23Copy HTML "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government measure." Milton Friedman. |
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shula
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-07-27 09:39:41Copy HTML That is sadly all too true.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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tommytalldog
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-07-31 12:06:31Copy HTML "Talent without effort is wasted talent." Mark Cuban |
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majorshrapnel
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-08-03 09:01:50Copy HTML The left make accusations, the right cite them
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majorshrapnel
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-08-05 08:37:02Copy HTML Islamophobia? Count me in.
Rod Liddle, who passed on a couple of days ago |
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majorshrapnel
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-08-05 11:54:58Copy HTML I assure you the Prime Minister of Great Britain has nothing to hide from the President of the United States.
Spoken by Winston Churchill when FDR walked into his hotel room to find Churchill stark naked after getting out of the bath. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-08-05 12:05:36Copy HTML They accused me of being a plagiarist… their words, not mine.
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shula
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-08-05 09:15:16Copy HTML I don't know if it's true or not, but I've read accounts that say Mr. Churchill was quite often seen in his birthday suit.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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majorshrapnel
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-08-07 01:21:50Copy HTML I don't know if it's true or not, but I've read accounts that say Mr. Churchill was quite often seen in his birthday suit. He certainly was |
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majorshrapnel
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-08-07 01:24:44Copy HTML You feel humble in my presence don't you? Yes, replied the soldier who had just won the VC. Then you'll know how I feel in yours.
Winston Churchill |
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tommytalldog
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-08-08 10:42:38Copy HTML "Pardon my French" became a disclaimer for using foul language, but it did not start out that way. During the Victorian era people would often sprinkle in French words as an example of how refined or educated they were. A subtle show of being upper class. |
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MarkUK
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-08-08 11:21:24Copy HTML Victorian novels featuring the upper class always have characters throwing in a few French words and phrases. Even Americans did it. 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:2026-08-09 12:45:50Copy HTML "It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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majorshrapnel
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-08-12 12:15:14Copy HTML The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood,he was one of them.
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tommytalldog
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-08-12 12:55:06Copy HTML The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood,he was one of them.
Unknown The Capitalist will sell us the rope with which we will hang them. Lenin |
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shula
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2026-08-12 09:57:10Copy HTML Not a quote per se: Congresswoman AOC recently announced she was having her eggs frozen. Comedian Greg Gutfeld said she might be freezing them because she might want to have an abortion some day. Cruel but she asked for it after pushing for late-term abortions.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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