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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Mickey191 Date: 23 May 07 - 01:00 PM Cheer like Protestants???? I'm at a loss on the B.F. line---10:58. When I drink water--------- This is great fun! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Mickey191 Date: 23 May 07 - 01:04 PM Was it the sleeping bag??--My old brain is cloudy today. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 23 May 07 - 02:02 PM Micca, you spoiled my sport! I hoped I'd catch at least somebody with either "glitters" or "gild the lily"! Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Micca Date: 23 May 07 - 03:42 PM Sorry Dave, but those to "miss" quotes have been a source of irritation to me for a very long time!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: mrdux Date: 24 May 07 - 12:32 AM "Grow old along with me . . . the best is yet to be." -- Robert Browning "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage. . . and half shut afterwards." -- Ben Franklin "Behold a pale . . . horse" (a pretty good 1964 movie about the Spanish civil war with Anthony Quinn and Gregory Peck -- the line is from the Book of Revelations: "And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.") How about this one: "Whether the pitcher hits the stone or the stone hits the pitcher. . ." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: GUEST,Dáithí Date: 24 May 07 - 04:36 AM Another favourite often misquoted: "The best laid plans..." Any offers? Dáithí |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: The Walrus Date: 24 May 07 - 04:54 AM "The best laid plans..." is't it something along the lines The best laid plans of mice and men gang oft a gley ? (I'm afraid I have no talent with broad Scots.) Complete the saying: "If 'ifs' and 'ands' were pots and pans....." W |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Mickey191 Date: 24 May 07 - 10:49 AM mrdux--I can't stump you it seems. Good Show! Pale horse quote sounds like a description of GWB. I've no clue on the pitcher line. How about : We are all in the gutter .......................... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: GUEST,Uncle_DaveO Date: 24 May 07 - 11:23 AM Last night a saw a great movie, and here's a line, first five words unsure in detail, but the quote involved is right): if you can love me, "take me. Take me, take a soldier".... Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: The Walrus Date: 24 May 07 - 11:52 AM Mickey191, "We are all in the gutter ..." But some of us are looking at the stars Oscar Wilde? Uncle Dave O, "...Last night a saw a great movie, ..." Who's version of the tale? if you can love me, "take me. Take me, take a soldier".... William Shakespeare's Henry V (Act V) [Henry wooing Katherine] "...If thou would have such a one, take me; and take me, take a soldier; take a soldier, take a king. And what sayest thou then to my love? speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee." Tom (Walrus) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 24 May 07 - 12:28 PM To The Walrus: I saw Kenneth Branagh's magnificent and beautiful production. Far, far better than the self-consciously stagey version by Olivier. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Mickey191 Date: 24 May 07 - 02:13 PM Walrus, Yes Sir - 100% Oscar Wilde--Same play: A man who knows the price of everything ................... You were right about McGlaglen & J.Johnson who won the fight with a decision. I Looked that one up. I had a male friend who loved "fights" and I'd raved for years about the Quiet Man fight. If I recall correctly it went on for 13 minutes. I sat him down once to watch this and some editor had pared the "great" fight down to 4 minutes!! That was a mortal sin!! IMO |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh Date: 24 May 07 - 02:44 PM "Thanks" ("Trooper" Thorne/ John Wayne, in "TQM" ad nauseam) Yep, it was indeed the sleeping-bag (and Ward Bond, as the priest fishing by the river, speaks to Maureen O'Hara in Irish; all except the word(s) "sleeping-bag"). On another note, I'm pretty sure Robert Burns's line from his poem to a Mouse (on turning her up with the plow, November 1784), runs, "The best-laid schemes of Mice and Men Gang aft a-gley; And lea us nocht but grief and pain For promised joy" ("Gang aft a-gley" could be rendered into English English as, "oftentimes go in-a-different-way-to-that-intended". It's not sufficient to write, "wrongly", since the Scots word "gley" has this sense of misdirection; a "squint" in the eye - Latin, "strabismus" - is "a gley"; not, a-gley" or "agley"). Now, what about another one: "There's plenty of fellas go along this road with **** in their ****" (not from TQM, but like that it's from a book made into a film, and indeed a remake) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Mickey191 Date: 24 May 07 - 06:04 PM An Buachaill Caol Dubh Wanted to send you a PM - but I guess you are not a member. A True Story about M.O'H. Is your last a quote by John Steinbeck? Clearly, I need a hint. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: GUEST,CrazyEddie Date: 25 May 07 - 03:56 AM A man who knows the price of everything .... and the value of nothing. God save thee, ancient XXXX! From the fiends, that plague thee thus! Why look'st thou so ?..... (I'm looking for the next line. But I blanked out one word-replaced by XXXX- because it is too much of a give-away) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Gurney Date: 25 May 07 - 05:16 AM There's one up there that I have as: A fortunate man is the Doctor/Surgeon/Physician, for the Sun shines on his successes, and the earth covers his failures. 'Hares on the Mountain' is ALL quotes. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Mickey191 Date: 25 May 07 - 10:16 AM CrazyEddie, It was a given - even with the XXXXX.(Mariner) With my cross bow I shot the albatross. Of course you are right with Wilde's great line. Almost everything he penned was gold. This is a different challenge-cause I'm not sure where it came from-but pretty sure it is Wilde: Something about a red headed whore at ringsend coming out at night. Might be from Redding Gaol-but I'm only guessing. Here's a new one: "The world will little note.................." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh Date: 25 May 07 - 11:45 AM I thought I WAS a memeber! Yes, the line is indeed form Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men"; something about "I've seen many men go down that road with LAND in their HEADS" (I may have misquoted; but the link to RB seemed appropriate; indeed, I think the 1930s film is the first to have a "pre-credits sequence", when George and Lenny are running for to leap aboard a train, hobo-like, and the boxcar has the Burns lines chalked upon it (and, I think, the focus zooms in until only the "Of M & M" title is left. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Little Hawk Date: 25 May 07 - 12:20 PM "I coulda been...." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: JennyO Date: 25 May 07 - 12:31 PM "You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender." - Marlon Brando as Terry in "On the Waterfront". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Mickey191 Date: 25 May 07 - 12:41 PM An Buachaill Caol Dubh I put your above ID in to send you a PM & was informed you are not a member. I did try twice. Did you actually give the requested info. to the powers that be - such as real name & address? Good Luck! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: mrdux Date: 25 May 07 - 12:53 PM "The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here." -- from Lincoln's Gettysburg address. as for the red-headed whore, it sounded familiar but I had to do some digging. It's from a poem by Irish poet Oliver St. John Gogarty. Ringsend (after reading Tolstoy) I will live in Ringsend With a red-headed whore, And the fan-light gone in Where it lights the hall-door, And listen each night For her querulous shout, As at last she streels in And the pubs empty out. To soothe that wild breast With my old-fangled songs, Till she feels it redressed From inordinate wrongs, Imagined, outrageous, Preposterous wrongs, Till peace at last comes, Shall be all I will do, Where the little lamp blooms Like a rose in the stew; And up the back garden The sound comes to me Of the lapsing, unsoilable, Whispering sea. BTW, thanks for the compliment, Mickey, but I'm pretty easily stumped: I just don't answer the one's I can't get -- which are, as this point, better than half. It's fun trying though. You're right: a good thread. michael |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Mickey191 Date: 25 May 07 - 02:56 PM mrdux, My brain is on a pre holiday vacation. Of course-Gogarty!!! I've his memoirs here "It isn't that time of year at all!" -Classic memoirs off the Golden Age of Dublin. I first heard "Ringsend" on the Long John Nebel radio show (NY)in the '60's. Anyone recall Long John? He was a master interviewer-loved it the night he took apart L. Ron Hubbard - (Dyanetics (sp?) Founder. John uncovered a talking ass! The B.S. flowed freely that night. Back to Gogarty--A brilliant Irish writer named Ulick O'Connor wrote a bio of Gogarty, and recited in the most mellifluous Dublin accent one would ever hear many of Gogarty's poems. I was in love with that voice! THanks for steering me back to a pleasant memory. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: mrdux Date: 26 May 07 - 01:51 AM I was familiar with the poem but hadn't been familiar with Gogarty. Interesting character. Among other things, he apparently was the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in Ulysses. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Little Hawk Date: 26 May 07 - 09:34 PM Right on, JennyO. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Mickey191 Date: 26 May 07 - 11:03 PM I have fears that this thread will end with questions still unanswered. So here are three more: Now is the winter....................... Oh Captain! My Captain!................. I found my thrill....................... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Little Hawk Date: 26 May 07 - 11:25 PM ...of our discontent. ...on Blueberry Hill. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: mrdux Date: 27 May 07 - 02:27 AM "O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done. . ." -- Whitman I'm still curious about the gross buckets. . . so while we're waiting here are another three for good measure: "There is no situation in human misery that cannot be made worse by. . ." "Beware of all enterprises that. . ." "Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend. . ." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: JennyO Date: 27 May 07 - 04:11 AM "Oh Captain! My Captain! --" This phrase of Walt Whitman's was made more famous after being used in "Dead Poets Society", by students of Robin Williams's character, the inspirational English teacher Mr Keating, to show their support of him after he is fired for encouraging his students to be more adventurous. That final scene stands out in my mind as one of the best ever in a movie - it grabs me every time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Teribus Date: 27 May 07 - 05:07 AM If 'ifs' and 'ands' were pots and pans we'd have no need of tinkers |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: The Walrus Date: 27 May 07 - 06:07 AM Terribus, Spot on. mrdux, "Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend. . ." "...Inside a dog, it's too dark to read" - Groucho Marx, I believe. W |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Rog Peek Date: 27 May 07 - 06:19 AM Walrus You've reminded me of two more quotes about 'if' that my dear mother in law used to use: "If is a word that gets in the way' Only for if we'd be happy today!" and the one I liked the most: "If 'IF' was a donkey, we'd all have a ride!" God bless her. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Rog Peek Date: 27 May 07 - 06:21 AM Sorry, it was Teribus, not Walrus......all these bloody silly names, I can't cope. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Mickey191 Date: 27 May 07 - 09:23 AM mrdux, There is no situation in human misery that cannot be made worse by. . ." I want to say: Good Intentions -- BUT I have no idea why that popped into my mind. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Little Hawk Date: 27 May 07 - 12:21 PM "There is no situation in human misery that cannot be made worse by. . ." Hmmm. Would it be "....a federal investigation." ? "...a committee." ? "...statistics." ? "...military intervention." ? The possibilities are endless, really. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: The Walrus Date: 27 May 07 - 02:36 PM Okay, try this (historical) one: "Gentlemen, we may not change history tomorrow, but..." Walrus. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: mrdux Date: 28 May 07 - 02:02 AM re: "There is no situation in human misery that cannot be made worse by. . ." Mickey -- "Good intentions" . . . I like it, but not quite what the author had in mind. LH: you have the sense of it. . . if it helps, it's Irish. michael |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: kendall Date: 28 May 07 - 07:32 AM The veil that hides the future is .... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: autolycus Date: 28 May 07 - 12:31 PM Mr.Dux - can't find the 'human misery' one in dozens of Dicts. of Quotes I have - soooooooooo annoying. Since it's Irish,given the wording,might be 1.GBS(haw) less likely 2. Wilde or maybe 3. B.Behan i.e.the usual suspects. When you come clean,full details would be welcome here,like work,chapter,date,stuff like that. "Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants............" WARNING All the usual answers tend to be wrong. Ivor |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Mickey191 Date: 29 May 07 - 12:23 AM All off mine have been answered--so far. A new set: Do I ice her?.............. If they hang you ................ Fasten your seat .................... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: GUEST,CrazyEddie Date: 29 May 07 - 04:58 AM "If 'IF' was a donkey, we'd all have a ride!" sounds like a variant of "If wishes were horses, beggars might ride" Fasten your seatbelt it could be a bumpy ride |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: JennyO Date: 29 May 07 - 09:43 AM "Do what? Do I ice her? Do I marry her? Which one of these?" Jack Nicholson as Charley Partanna in "Prizzi's Honor" "The chances are you'll get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years. I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you." - Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon" "Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night" - Bette Davis as Margo Channing in "All about Eve". |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh Date: 29 May 07 - 02:47 PM Two or three Irish ones, then: "The [number of] people in Ireland that buy books wouldn't..." "My grandfather spent the last four years of his life as ....." "A Pint of Plain is....." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Mickey191 Date: 29 May 07 - 07:38 PM Jenny O, Correct again on all three. As for the last 3 Irish - am not familiar with any of them. Is the first: wouldn't fill a page? Pure guess. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Put the last poster's name in again & was told Not a member. So here is the story on M.O'H. She has a home in Glengariff, West Cork, Eire. She was checking out groceries & dropped some coins to the floor. She announced in a loud voice:"I shall expect these coins to be picked up & waiting for me when I shop next." Not exactly nice. She is not well liked for this & other exchanges with the locals. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: mrdux Date: 30 May 07 - 12:43 AM Ivor -- I was just thinking about the "coming clean" point of this thread: I figure it's around the time the "gross buckets" line is explained, and that doesn't seem imminent. In the meantime, if you're curious about the "human misery" quote, PM me about it. here's another: "The exquisite corpse. . ." michael |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: GUEST,CrazyEddie Date: 30 May 07 - 04:10 AM When things go wrong, & they won't go right, Though you've done the best you can. When life's as dark, as the hour of night, A pint of plain, is your only man. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: An Buachaill Caol Dubh Date: 31 May 07 - 02:41 PM Not so crazy, Eddie: the words of Jem Casey, the poet of The Working Man (as recorded by the inimitable Flann O'Brien, Myles na gCopaleen, real name Brian Nolan). He too - or probably Sergeant Pluck - is responsible for the one about the Grandfather, all according to the Atomic Theory of de Selby. The first is Brendan Behan, and concludes "wouldn't keep me in drink for a weekend". Jazus, that's quite a tongue M O'H has on her. I wouldn't put my fingers anywhere near a Holy Water Font when she was arond.... I did put my address &c when requested; maybe I'll put the house number as well, or maybe there's a problem re. the "zip" thing. I'll try again. Now, how about something perennially pertinent: "Here's Freedom to them that would ----; Here's Freedom to them that would -----: There's nane ever feared That the Truth should be heard, But them whom the Truth would ------." (Slightly anglicized: would/wad; whom/wham) Where did the wan moon set? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Mickey191 Date: 31 May 07 - 05:34 PM Have not a clue on the last few. Gross Buckets still a mystery!! This is part of one of my all time favorite poems: (the subject is lasting love) How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved.............................. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Lonesome EJ Date: 31 May 07 - 05:50 PM "Bill is gross buckets, and he howls the Harvard Fight Song!"? or "Bill is gross buckets, and he howls the innate frustration incumbent upon him viewing the desperate nature of his situation !" |
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Subject: RE: BS: Finish the quote... From: Little Hawk Date: 31 May 07 - 06:16 PM Hmmm. You're getting a bit warmer, LEJ. |
