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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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shula
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-05-19 11:54:32Copy HTML "What family doesn't have its ups and downs?" (Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter) I just read an article, which may be old news to you Mark and Major, that the Earl of Yarmouth just lost a Court battle to gain control of his family's estate. The suit was against the Trustees of the Estate but the Earl's parents and his siblings came in on the side of the Trustees. The family are the indirect descendants of Jane Seymour. The story sounded a little parallel to Harry's issues with his family. The Earl is not opposed to reconciliation with his family as well.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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MarkUK
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-05-20 05:27:13Copy HTML This was in the Daily Telegraph a few weeks ago. He is William Seymour the son and heir of the 9th Marquess of Hertford descended from Jane Seymour's brother Edward, Duke of Somerset who was Regent for the boy King Edward VI in the 1540s. The dispute centres around the Ragley Hall estate in Warwickshire and is yet another example of a family feud being aired through the Courts. 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:2025-05-20 10:10:56Copy HTML "What family doesn't have its ups and downs?" (Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter) I just read an article, which may be old news to you Mark and Major, that the Earl of Yarmouth just lost a Court battle to gain control of his family's estate. The suit was against the Trustees of the Estate but the Earl's parents and his siblings came in on the side of the Trustees. The family are the indirect descendants of Jane Seymour. The story sounded a little parallel to Harry's issues with his family. The Earl is not opposed to reconciliation with his family as well. Narrrr Shule’s, way out of my comfort zone really. Mark knows more about these people’s ancestry than they do |
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MarkUK
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-05-20 11:48:17Copy HTML It was in the Daily Telegraph again today. 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:2025-05-20 03:10:40Copy HTML I noticed a few years ago a growing trend among wealthy young people who didn't have control over that wealth to seek emancipation from their parents as young as 16 because of money. It seemed to be more prevalent in "new money" cases, but I guess "old money" has its impetuous youth as well.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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shula
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-05-26 05:27:18Copy HTML Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-05-26 06:38:59Copy HTML Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Unmade decisions fueled by procrastination=clutter. |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-05-27 11:35:53Copy HTML "Knowlege is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in fruit salad."
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-05-30 11:45:40Copy HTML "Don't make excuses for horrible people, you can't put a flower in an asshole & make it a vase."
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MarkUK
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-05-31 07:44:29Copy HTML Trump springs to mind with that quote. 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:2025-05-31 01:34:05Copy HTML Are you thinking of Gilead in Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Mark? Margaret Atwood's is a Canadian. All the best in everything come from Canada or at least know a Canadian. |
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MarkUK
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-05-31 05:21:34Copy HTML No, neither read it not watched it. 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:2025-05-31 08:12:02Copy HTML "No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot." Mark Twain |
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MarkUK
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-06-01 08:09:11Copy HTML We're back to the MAGA crowd again. 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:2025-06-01 12:07:46Copy HTML "Half of the world is composed of people who have something to say & can't. The other half is composed of people who have nothing to say & keep on saying it." Robert Frost. |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-06-01 12:52:57Copy HTML "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." George Carlin
Back to MAGA, Mark? |
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majorshrapnel
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-06-01 05:25:02Copy HTML Back in the day if Britain got a cough, the world got pneumonia. The world relied upon the British market and trade and the modern world was built on that dynamo. Today it’s the US, the world’s most important market, the world’s new dynamo and it’s essential to world trade the US economy does well, therefore it needs a business brain at the helm, not a feckin social worker |
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-06-03 12:47:01Copy HTML "As much as guns and warships, maps have been the weapons of imperialism."
Cartographer Brian Harley, Geographical (U.K.) |
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tommytalldog
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-06-09 03:13:00Copy HTML Quotes
"I've got a wonderful future behind me."
Willie Nelson |
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tommytalldog
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-06-09 03:17:17Copy HTML "Nero played his fiddle while Rome burned"
False, Nero was 35 miles away, in fact the fiddle wasn't even invented. |
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shula
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-06-09 08:45:42Copy HTML Nero lyred while Rome burned just doesn't have the same ring.
"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:2025-06-11 12:08:01Copy HTML "An election is no time to discuss serious issues."
Former Canadian PM Kim Campbell |
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tommytalldog
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-06-11 12:10:45Copy HTML "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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MarkUK
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Re:QUOTES Date Posted:2025-06-11 02:16:15Copy HTML We fall into all three, sometimes all at once. 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:2025-06-14 09:39:20Copy HTML Scurvy: When life doesn't give you lemons.
"It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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