BS: Clever sayings #56

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 07:55 AM

I was in a bar in Liverpool once when a customer reached for his pint and spilled half of it fown his shirt
Quick as a flash, the barman said, "What do you want to do with that, drink it or wear it"
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Thompson
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 07:42 AM

In our house dinner was hot tongue and cold shoulder.

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 07:21 AM

A reasonable tweet from Trump is celebrated like a potty training milestone.

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 06:45 AM

To err is human
To arr is pirate

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 06:41 AM

Antother of my mother's gems
When asked "what's for dinner" she regularly replied "Cow's cock and hairy bacon"
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Thompson
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 06:32 AM

Time flies like an arrow
Fruit flies like a banana

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 03:41 AM

Jim, a variant on that is "When you were circumcised they threw the wrong bit away."

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 03:39 AM

"Illegitimes non carborundum" (don't let the bastards grind you down).

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 03:30 AM

When I was a very green apprentice on the Liverpool docks a wonderful old tradesman, having tried to explain something to me half a dozen times said,

"You know, when you were born they must have thrown the best bit away"

Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: BobL
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 03:15 AM

The skin is mightier than the banana

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 03:06 AM

I could agree with your argument, but then we'd both be wrong.....

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: DMcG
Date: 08 Aug 18 - 02:22 AM

"Everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die."

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Joe_F
Date: 07 Aug 18 - 10:07 PM

Most of the evil in the world comes from nature, and most of the ugliness comes from art.

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Aug 18 - 01:24 PM

If you're having problems finding a solution to a problem, the problem is probably you.

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 07 Aug 18 - 12:44 PM

If Shakespeare were alive today he'd be turning in his grave.

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Jim Carroll
Date: 07 Aug 18 - 09:16 AM

When I first tried may hand at singing my mother told me "If you were singing for shit you wouldn't get the smell of it"
She later told me I had improved a litle
Jim Carroll

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: gillymor
Date: 07 Aug 18 - 09:02 AM

It's no fun to drink alone,
until you've had two or three.

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 07 Aug 18 - 08:46 AM

"There's a sucker in every card game. If you can't see who it is, it's you."


"Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today. If you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow."


"Sex is good for one.
- but better for two."

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Donuel
Date: 07 Aug 18 - 07:15 AM

“If you have to ask, you’ll never know. If you know, you need only ask.”

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Joe_F
Date: 06 Aug 18 - 10:39 PM

Only a unique solution need have all the symmetries of the problem.

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Aug 18 - 03:01 AM

From John Sheehan," The Dubliners were playing in a country pub in rural Ireland,during the break an old man came up to to me and said, " tell me son, do you read music or are you gifted ? "

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 06 Aug 18 - 02:57 AM

If I had a lower IQ I could have a decent argument with you.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: BobL
Date: 06 Aug 18 - 01:42 AM

If you can remember the Sixties, you weren't there.

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Joe_F
Date: 05 Aug 18 - 09:22 PM

If you are not paying for it, you are the merchandise.

Subject: RE: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Bill D
Date: 05 Aug 18 - 08:11 PM

In the old days, the complaints about the passing of the
golden age were much more sophisticated.
-----------------------------------------

"Aujourd'hui ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'etre dit, on le chante"
from "Le Barbier de Seville" by Pierre- Augustin Caron de
Beaumarchais and translates as:

"Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it"

Subject: BS: Clever sayings #56
From: Donuel
Date: 05 Aug 18 - 05:58 PM

If you are not at the table, you are on the menu.