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17 Apr 09 - 12:12 AM (#2612883) Subject: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Lonesome EJ The movie "Kill Bill" marks the ultimate victory of style over substance. |
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17 Apr 09 - 08:29 AM (#2613038) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Nigel Parsons the ultimate victory of style over substance I thought that was Tony Blair! |
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17 Apr 09 - 09:12 AM (#2613061) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Bill D That epigram inspires ME to more whiskey.... |
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17 Apr 09 - 02:22 PM (#2613277) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Richard Bridge Spelt like that, the closest I get to an epigram is "bejabers". |
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17 Apr 09 - 03:16 PM (#2613317) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Bill D 'whisky' - 17,700,000 hits 'whiskey' -18,500,000 hits The world is not always as we'd wish. (and I spell 'spelt' as 'spelled' and 'bejabers' as 'bejabbers'....fascinating!) |
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17 Apr 09 - 03:21 PM (#2613324) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: michaelr "Always keep a bottle of whisky in your pocket in case of snakebite. Always keep a snake in the other pocket." - W.C. Fields |
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17 Apr 09 - 03:52 PM (#2613352) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: katlaughing So, Mae West should have said "Is that a bottle in your pocket and you are glad to see me?" |
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17 Apr 09 - 08:22 PM (#2613519) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: John on the Sunset Coast An epigram is a bon mot sent by Western Union; an epigraph is a saying sent by any other telegraph company. Hic. |
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17 Apr 09 - 08:30 PM (#2613525) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Joe_F The graduations on a whiskey bottle: - Jocose - Morose - Bellicose - Comatose |
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18 Apr 09 - 03:29 PM (#2613996) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Jim Dixon During one of our trips through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We had to live on food and water for several days. --W. C. Fields (as Cuthbert J. Twillie in "My Little Chickadee", 1940) |
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19 Apr 09 - 12:32 AM (#2614222) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Lonesome EJ It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It was the Spring of Hope, it was the Winter of Despair. It was the uncorking of a fifth of Woodford Reserve on Friday Night. It was stubbing your toe on an empty Kentucky Gentleman bottle on Saturday morning. |
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19 Apr 09 - 05:13 AM (#2614280) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: John O'L The iron curtain may have fallen but the iron drapes still frame the stage where puppeteers agree (in whispers off) that Punch should clobber Judy and then Judy clobber Punch. |
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19 Apr 09 - 08:01 AM (#2614330) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Acorn4 From Bernard Wrigley:- I joined alcoholics anonymous. I still get pissed but do it under another name! |
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19 Apr 09 - 08:30 AM (#2614340) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Dave the Gnome I have a whisky bemired epiglottis. Will that do? DeG |
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19 Apr 09 - 09:24 AM (#2614352) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: bobad Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah, I drunk me a river since you tore me apart And I don't have a drinking problem, 'cept when I can't get a drink Tom Waits |
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19 Apr 09 - 10:01 AM (#2614362) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Bill D Lemme try this: "A skunk sat on a stump. The stump thunk the skunk stunk, And the skunk thunk the stump stunk." ok, bartender...I'm fine... gimme another whisky. |
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19 Apr 09 - 01:25 PM (#2614477) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Lonesome EJ I have seen more of Heaven in the bottom of a wine glass than I have in any Church - Omar Khayam (well, in this case its wine, not whiskey...you get the picture) |
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19 Apr 09 - 01:34 PM (#2614480) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Jim Dixon "I'd rather have a bottle in front o' me than a frontal lobotomy." --I don't know if he originated it, but I first heard it from Tom Waits when he was a guest on "Fernwood 2 Night" in 1977. |
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19 Apr 09 - 07:46 PM (#2614689) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Joe_F I'll eat when I'm hungry, I'll drink when I'm dry. If whiskey don't kill me, I'll live till I die. A logician, somewhere, once pointed out that the final statement is equivalent to "If I don't live till I die, whiskey will kill me". (Posted under the influence of a manhattan.) |
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19 Apr 09 - 08:04 PM (#2614696) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Bill D I always wondered how any of those scientists was able to finish the "Manhatten Project". |
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19 Apr 09 - 08:07 PM (#2614697) Subject: RE: BS: Whiskey-inspired epigrams From: Gurney Lucky man, Lonesome. I can't even afford to buy wine by the case, let alone whisky. That's good advice, 'let alone whisky,' by the way. |