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  1. 8th December 2006, 07:40 PM #91
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    You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink

    Noel

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    Naughty, naughty Noel.
    Ya cant say that..
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    At an interview I was conducting for sessional workers to supervise villains 'I have a simple philosophy with these people, you play ball with me and I don't whack the bat up your asre'.
    Stupidity kills. Absolute stupidity kills absolutely.
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    "Looking back in retrospect". LBJ
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    William Shakespeare (Hamlet): Brevity is the soul of wit.
    Dorothy Parker: Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

    (re the American measurements thread)
    George Bernard Shaw: England and America are two nations separated by a common language.

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    Fiction has to make sense. - Mark Twain
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    LBJ of Gerald Ford

    "That boy couldn't sheet and chew gum at the same time."

    "He played too much football without a helmet."
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    J.F. Kennedy: Ich bin ein Berliner. (I am a jelly donut. )
    I may be weird, but I'm saving up to become eccentric.

    - Andy Mc
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    Getting an education means becoming conscious of what we do not know....
    If you are never in over your head how do you know how tall you are?
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    Sorry,
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    My first edit....I'm so proud!!
    Must have been a moment of madness!
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    Quote Originally Posted by watson View Post
    Sorry,
    (smirk)
    My first edit....I'm so proud!!
    Must have been a moment of madness!
    Regards,
    Noel

    Id like to thank my Mum, and all the fellas down at the bone factory where I work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Doughboy View Post
    Getting an education means becoming conscious of what we do not know....
    So true! The more you learn, the less you know.

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    Theres hundreds of George Bush quotes:

    "Bill wrote a book at yale, I read one"

    "I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun"

    "Its your money...you paid for it"

    "it is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas" :confused:
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    So windy here it would just about blow a dog off its chain.

    If you burn your ar $e then you will be the only one sitting on the blisters.

    And a Toast from my college days

    "Here's to it those who do it
    May they get to it to do it again."

    - followed immediately by

    "Here's to it to those who don't do it
    May they get to it to do it"
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    Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.

    Richard
    I'd love to know who coined this gem
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    Said to me by a parent of a child in my class: " he was told last year that he could not remember anything.... and he's never forgotten that."
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    Quote Originally Posted by Daddles View Post
    Rules are for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools.

    Richard
    I'd love to know who coined this gem
    It was Douglas Bader (Wikipedia and Google are your friends!)
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