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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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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-04 08:36:34Copy HTML If you speak to God that is religion, if God speaks to you that is psychosis
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-04 02:50:50Copy HTML Trump is an arsehole. Anon. 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：2026-09-04 08:07:07Copy HTML Trump is an arseho I know anon, he’s that other psychotic |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-06 12:14:01Copy HTML "A prudent ruler cannot, and should not, honor his word when doing so works against his interests and when the reasons that made him make the promise are no longer relevant."
Machiavelli |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-06 03:05:59Copy HTML The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson |
shula
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-07 12:26:15Copy HTML Calvin and Hobbes is one of the best comic strips ever.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-08 11:44:12Copy HTML "The unexamined life is not worth living" "The only wisdom is knowing that you know nothing." Socrates |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-08 04:02:05Copy HTML While I'm on the Socrates thingy. The Three Sieves of Socrates when in conversation with others.
1) Is it the truth or what I heard?
2) Is it good or positive, not negative?
3) Is it necessary that I know?
Other than all of the above it is gossip. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-10 01:02:02Copy HTML "Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
Mark Twain |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-10 07:45:02Copy HTML You have enemies, good, that means you have stood up for something at some time in your life.
Winston Churchill |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-18 01:34:40Copy HTML "When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing you may know society is doomed."
Ann Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957 |
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shula
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-18 09:21:05Copy HTML "A man can get used to anything. Slaughtering or undertaking or even execution; rack and pincers must be just a job when one gets used to it." John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-24 12:59:05Copy HTML "There is no such thing as fun for the whole family." Jerry Seinfeld. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-25 11:01:35Copy HTML "Socialism only works in two places. Heaven where they don't need it, & hell where they already have it." Ronald Reagan. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-25 06:45:25Copy HTML "Socialism only works in two places. Heaven where they don't need it, & hell where they already have it." Ronald Reagan. Socialism is like a dream, sooner or later you wake up to reality. Socialists consider making a profit a crime, whereas the real crime is making a loss Winston Churchill |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-26 12:18:24Copy HTML People sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell |
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shula
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-26 10:03:41Copy HTML Paris ain't much of a town. Babe Ruth "It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-28 01:04:02Copy HTML "You are a thief & a murderer. You have killed a baboon & stolen his face" An 18th century insult before social media came about. |
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shula
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-28 10:58:20Copy HTML That would sting.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-29 10:11:49Copy HTML Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the
same reason.
Mark Twain |
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shula
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-29 09:53:48Copy HTML We have House of Representatives elections this year (every two years). The {expletive omitted} is flowing freely. I love how they accuse each other of corruption then whoever gets elected comes out a millionaire.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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tommytalldog
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-09-30 12:40:08Copy HTML "A narcissist is someone better looking than you are." Gore Vidal |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-10-05 12:26:34Copy HTML The Americans think that 100 years is a long time. The British think that’100 miles is a long way.
Earl Hitchner |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：QUOTES Date Posted：2026-10-09 01:26:38Copy HTML If you think that strong men are dangerous, just wait until you see what weak men are capable of.
Jordan Peterson |
