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From: autolycus
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 05:55 PM

The English don't care much for music. As long as you start together, and finish together, they don't care wqhat happens in between.    Thomas Beecham

   Ivor

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 06:11 PM

Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands - and all you do is scratch it.
~ Thomas Beecham (to a cellist, ...

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From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 06:23 PM

"Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up."

                                        --Joan Jett

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From: John O'L
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 06:29 PM

Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats.

- Victor Borge, playing to a half-filled house in Flint, Michigan.

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From: John MacKenzie
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 06:31 PM

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it out by one's conversation.

~ Oscar Wilde

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From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 06:52 PM

That Victor Borge one is brilliant!

"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet."

                                              --Keith Richards

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From: number 6
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 07:11 PM

Joan Jett ... whoa, watch out!

"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny.
.... from Frank Zappa

biLL

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From: GUEST,Guest
Date: 08 Mar 08 - 07:22 PM

OK, now we're in for it. I found a George Carlin quotes page. It really is reassuring to know someone has a sicker sense of humor than I do.

Here we go.

"The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."

"One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor."

"One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like."

And I just love this little blessing of his:

May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."

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From: Bill D
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 05:59 PM

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell

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From: John O'L
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 09:07 PM

I do not like this word "bomb." It is not a bomb. It is a device that is exploding.

- Jacques le Blanc, French ambassador on nuclear weapons

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From: Bill D
Date: 09 Mar 08 - 09:39 PM

I like that one, John, O'L...it reminds me of:

"God didn't create the world, it was some other Supreme Being using his name!"
    ..anon

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From: mrdux
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 12:17 AM

"I don't need luck: I have a Magic Penny."

                         -- Beth, one of my business partners

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From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 08:26 AM

Is it true that the magic penny works best if you don't believe in it?

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From: Donuel
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 09:45 AM

"[Those] who have an excessive faith in their theories or in their ideas are not only poorly disposed to make discoveries, but they also make very poor observations." —Claude Bernard (1813-78) French physiologist, 1865

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From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 10:23 AM

The manager of Barnsley:

We won

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From: mrdux
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 02:04 PM

"Is it true that the magic penny works best if you don't believe in it?"

In the particular instance, probably.

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From: Cassy
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 02:21 PM

It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.                     

E.R.Bulwer-Lytton:

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From: Bill D
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 02:33 PM

"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one." - Cato

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From: Peter T.
Date: 10 Mar 08 - 10:36 PM

"You can fool some people about your age with makeup, but you can't fool a flight of stairs."
                                                - Marlene Dietrich

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From: John O'L
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 01:05 AM

My Ancient History tutor told us that The Iliad & the Odyssey were probably not written by Homer but by someone else calling himself Homer.

Yeah, right...

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From: John O'L
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 01:08 AM

From the forrest comes the wood for the axe-handle.

- The Kaballah

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From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 05:00 AM

"From the forrest comes the wood for the axe-handle

This looks ripe for parody:

From the sea comes the salt for wounds .................

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From: Georgiansilver
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 09:58 AM

Kaballah got it wrong....the axe handle comes from a tree...not a forest!

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From: Amos
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 10:09 AM

And what exactly is it you think forests are made up of, GS? Bunnies?



A

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From: Les in Chorlton
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 11:01 AM

From th burrows (buroughs?) come the pelt for my hat?

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From: Donuel
Date: 11 Mar 08 - 12:28 PM

From the bull comes the

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From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Mar 08 - 06:36 AM

Amos - he can't see the wood for the trees!

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From: kendall
Date: 12 Mar 08 - 01:23 PM

After talking with Pete Seeger the other day, I awoke with an original quote in my mind:
"Ignorance is poverty of the mind."

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From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 12 Mar 08 - 01:39 PM

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein

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From: Bert
Date: 16 Mar 08 - 11:45 AM

"There's three things wrong with this statue. First, Jesus wasn't pink. Second, he wasn't effeminate. And third, he didn't have to be dusted three times a week!"

LadyJean in the "What did Jesus look like thread.

And get orf yer duffs you lazy bums, I had to search back SEVEN days to find this Quote of the DAY thread.

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From: mrdux
Date: 17 Mar 08 - 12:25 AM

"I still have all my vinyl. . .You can't roll a joint on an iPod."

                        – Shelby Lynne, quoted in the New York Times Magazine, 13 January, 2008

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From: Bert
Date: 19 Mar 08 - 09:07 PM

Being a lot better than Bush shouldn't in itself be seen as an adequate qualification for any kind of responsible job.

McGrath on the McCain/liar thread.

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From: GUEST,Ed T
Date: 20 Mar 08 - 05:20 PM

"I used to read but making stuff up is faster." — Scott Adams.

Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd think." — Scott Adams.


One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. Frank Herbert

"It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled seas of thought." — John K. Galbraith.

"Talent and sensibility clearly don't travel on the same chromosomes." — Ray Everett-Church

When your IQ rises to 28, sell." — Professor Irwin Corey to a heckler.When your IQ rises to 28, sell." — Professor Irwin Corey to a heckler.

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From: Donuel
Date: 20 Mar 08 - 05:22 PM

"Hate the Spin, Love the Spinner"

a famous mudcatter

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From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Mar 08 - 06:47 PM

"Mama, I'm bringing a PURR-mankus to your house!" - Morgan the grandson -

After many questions I figure it out...he's bringing a praying mantis home from school!

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From: John O'L
Date: 20 Mar 08 - 07:07 PM

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes even bigger man to laugh at him.

- anon