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Thread: No Googling please!
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24th April 2013, 09:32 PM #1
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No Googling please!
Just Vote on this question:
Who is responsible for the oft (mis)quoted say about the law being an ass:
Charles dickens
George Bernard Shaw
Henry Glapthorne
Bertrand Russell
Samuel Johnson
George Chapman
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24th April 2013, 09:35 PM #2
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Re: No Googling please!
Gbs?
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24th April 2013, 09:36 PM #3
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Charles Dickens
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24th April 2013, 10:19 PM #4
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24th April 2013, 10:46 PM #5
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i remember reading one time that it was wrongly attributed to dickens but can't remember who (if indeed the article said) it was ... i would guess gbs who said many clever things
regards d avid
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24th April 2013, 11:00 PM #6
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Scorecard
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GBS 2
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24th April 2013, 11:17 PM #7
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Gbs
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24th April 2013, 11:18 PM #8
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I just googled.
Michael
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24th April 2013, 11:42 PM #9
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So did I, but I won't spoil it.
Originally Posted by Grommett
Peter.
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24th April 2013, 11:42 PM #10
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Dickens - from Oliver Twist, from memory
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24th April 2013, 11:43 PM #11
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Gotta love a confession - or two!!!
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25th April 2013, 04:55 AM #12
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Henry Glapthorne
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25th April 2013, 07:42 AM #13
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25th April 2013, 06:08 PM #14
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We did this in school, the teacher had an extremely difficult time ensuring we pronounced the word as "ass" instead of how we thought it should be pronounced, "arrrse".
Being a school border come dinner time, all you could hear around our class table were many variations of rolling ones r
I'm going with Dickens in Oliver Twist.
Mick.
Edit, funny how something like this stays with you for your life and is instantly returned from the dark recess of the brain, it was nearly 50 years ago.
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25th April 2013, 07:09 PM #15
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Bertrand Russell ... From memory he was an iconoclast.
greg
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