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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     

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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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Date Posted:2026-07-21 01:02:45Copy HTML

Never start a sentence with a number???
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Date Posted:2026-07-21 06:28:24Copy HTML

One time I did.
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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.  

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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. 
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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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Date Posted:2026-07-27 03:51:23Copy HTML

"Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government measure." Milton Friedman.
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Date Posted:2026-07-27 09:39:41Copy HTML

That is sadly all too true.
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Date Posted:2026-07-31 12:06:31Copy HTML

"Talent without effort is wasted talent." Mark Cuban
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Date Posted:2026-08-03 09:01:50Copy HTML

The left make accusations, the right cite them Anonymous
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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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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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Date Posted:2026-08-05 12:05:36Copy HTML

They accused me of being a plagiarist… their words, not mine. Unknown
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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. 
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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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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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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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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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"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time." -Albert Camus-
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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. Unknown
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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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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.
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Date Posted:2026-08-22 10:35:19Copy HTML

"The Crusades saved Western Europe from the Muslim onslaught. We need an American Crusade." Pete Hegseth.
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Date Posted:2026-08-23 05:21:27Copy HTML

Not quite accurate with his history, unsurprisingly from a known idiot. At the time of the Crusades the Muslims were no threat to Europe, it was Christians threatening and pushing them back.

Only centuries after the Holy Land was lost did Europe come under attack with the Ottomans pushing as far west as Vienna. 

You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning. Arnold Bennett
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Date Posted:2026-08-24 12:43:49Copy HTML

"Golf is like bicycle shorts. It reveals a lot about a man." Sportswriter Rick Reilly.
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Date Posted:2026-08-24 11:23:04Copy HTML

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." Credited to Eleanor Roosevelt been disputed over the years.
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