BS: Entrance Lines

15 May 03 - 11:07 PM (#953525)
Subject: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Padre

OK, we've had famous exit lines, so how about Entrance Lines - as in:

'Madam, I'm Adam'

Padre

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16 May 03 - 12:24 AM (#953554)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: katlaughing

Here I come to save the day! Mighty Mouse(?)

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16 May 03 - 03:14 AM (#953600)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Roger the Skiffler

"Hello, Good evening and welcome" David Frost
"I've emptied bigger rooms than this/been thrown out of better pubs than this" RtS
"Don't clap too loud , it's a very old building" Archie Rice in The Entertainer"
RtS

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16 May 03 - 03:31 AM (#953609)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: musicmick

How about Sheridan Whiteside's opening line in "The Man Who Came To Dinner", "I may vomit!"
Or, better still, Sean Connery's first three words in DR. NO, "Bond, James Bond." Others have said that since, but nobody did it better.

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16 May 03 - 05:09 AM (#953633)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: gnu

Bugs Bunny : "What's up doc ?" Then, of course, from my all time favourite Elmer Fudd cartoon, "Good morning John. Great day to be alive, isn't it ? Think you can staaaay that way ?"

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16 May 03 - 08:31 AM (#953684)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Micca

" Helooo" Joh9n from Hull
" ....Gin" Dead Horse

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16 May 03 - 10:42 AM (#953763)
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From: JennyO

Hello, I'm Mr Ed.

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16 May 03 - 11:03 AM (#953774)
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From: Sorcha

"Welcome to my neighborhood.."--Fred Rogers
Why are we all here? Because we're not all there.
I know you are all wondering why I called this meeting......

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16 May 03 - 11:05 AM (#953777)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: TheBigPinkLad

'Ello my darlin's ... Charlie Drake

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16 May 03 - 11:28 AM (#953793)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Bill D

" 'Madam, I'm Adam'"...to which Eve is said to have replied--
"Name no one man"

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16 May 03 - 12:26 PM (#953834)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin

.... way back when everyone spoke in Palindrome, eh?

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16 May 03 - 12:31 PM (#953838)
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From: MMario

Anyone for Tennis?

Dr. Livinngstone, I presume?

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16 May 03 - 03:01 PM (#953944)
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From: Mr Red

"Cough"

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16 May 03 - 04:09 PM (#953987)
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From: Cluin

"Hi Everybody, I'm Glen Campbell!"

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16 May 03 - 04:12 PM (#953989)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: MMario

Goooood Eeeeeeeeevening!

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16 May 03 - 04:26 PM (#953997)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin

"Drink!   Feck!   Arse!   Gerls!!!"
    ~ Father Jack

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16 May 03 - 06:58 PM (#954091)
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From: Peter T.

"Who's there?"

"Nay, answer me!Stand and unfold yourself."

"Marcellus?"

"A piece of him."


Hamlet -- a perfect opening, mystery, threats, identity crises, guards, sets the whole play up. yours, Peter T.

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17 May 03 - 12:12 AM (#954219)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin

"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."

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17 May 03 - 12:30 PM (#954403)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Amos

"Lafayette --- we are here."

A classic line reaching across some two hundred years.

A

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17 May 03 - 07:13 PM (#954597)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: musicmick

Amos, I think that line is from Wold War One. probably from Black Jack Pershing. It might be from WW2. The USA has liberated France on more than one occasion.

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17 May 03 - 08:58 PM (#954633)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: The Walrus

musicmic,

I think when the Allied forces returned to France during WWII, everyone was a *little* too busy to try thinking up recordable one liners.
The quote is from the Great War, but IIRC it wasn't Pershing but one of his Generals (or a Staff wallah), spoken over Lafayette's grave or in his home town (something of that ilk).

Walrus.

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17 May 03 - 08:59 PM (#954635)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST

And now for the Prologue - Frankie Howerd in Up Pompeii

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18 May 03 - 02:02 AM (#954699)
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From: Hrothgar

Colonel Charles E. Stanton, as deputy for Pershing, 04 July 1917, at the tomb of LaFayette in Paris.

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18 May 03 - 05:09 PM (#955031)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

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19 May 03 - 01:43 AM (#955226)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: musicmick

I thank The Walrus and Hrothgar for the information. I may start a Charles E. Stanton fan club. (I've just got to get a life)

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19 May 03 - 09:14 PM (#955828)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: SINSULL

"Hang onto your hats. This is going to be a bumpy ride." Bette Davis in "All About Eve". Note a very young and buxom Marilyn Monroe.

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20 May 03 - 01:36 PM (#956305)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST,jennifer

"Good Evening, this is the Leicester Phoenix, and you're welcome to it" John Tams

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21 May 03 - 12:13 AM (#956710)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin

"Good evening. I'm Chevy Chase and you're not. And now, the news..."

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21 May 03 - 03:30 AM (#956743)
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From: Teribus

"The Navy's Here" - shouted by the Leading Seaman of the boarding party from HMS Cossack when it boarded the German Supply Ship Altmark in Jossingfjord in Norway to rescue 300 British Merchant Seamen transfered onboard the ship as prisoners of war from Graf Spee.

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09 Feb 05 - 01:25 AM (#1403390)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin

"Luuuuuuuuucy! I'm Home!"

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09 Feb 05 - 03:22 AM (#1403452)
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From: Ebbie

Heeeeeerrrrrrre's Johnny!

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09 Feb 05 - 03:27 AM (#1403455)
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From: Kaleea

"Good morning, good evening, and good afternoon!"   Groucho Marx


       "             . . . !"    Harpo Marx

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09 Feb 05 - 04:53 AM (#1403511)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Liz the Squeak

First words heard at many Les Barker concerts I have attended....

'Oh bloody 'ell, not you again!'

LTS

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09 Feb 05 - 07:06 AM (#1403549)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST

I Come to Bury St Edmunds , not to praise it !


My Name is Terry and I am a banjo player (or should it be alcoholic)

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09 Feb 05 - 11:57 AM (#1403625)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie

Billy Connolly, tuning banjo:


Ach, good enough for fuckin Boston.

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09 Feb 05 - 03:47 PM (#1403688)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Mr Red

Door sill
Door jamb

something to adore?

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09 Feb 05 - 03:59 PM (#1403700)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Clinton Hammond

Come with me if you want to live....

or...

This is it... This is where Forrestal cashed in...

Or...

*with hands 'steepled' so that thumb tips touch to form a 'triangle*
"One..." (Just to see who reaches, and who is Herbert)

Or...

Welcome... to the desert... of the real

:-)

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10 Feb 05 - 12:59 AM (#1404133)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin

"The Jundland Wastes are not to be traveled lightly."

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10 Feb 05 - 07:13 AM (#1404349)
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From: The Fooles Troupe

"The BS Threads of Mudcat are not to be traveled lightly."

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10 Feb 05 - 07:48 AM (#1404382)
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From: CStrong

"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

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10 Feb 05 - 06:50 PM (#1405191)
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From: Chris Green

Heard at a mediaeval banquet - "Sorry I'm late. My horse had a flat tyre."

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10 Feb 05 - 08:42 PM (#1405284)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Uncle_DaveO

Texas Guinan, the Prohibition Era saloon queen:

Helloooooo, Suckers!!!!

Dave Oesterreucg

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10 Feb 05 - 09:21 PM (#1405321)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Bert

You Lucky People - Tommy Trinder
Hello Playmates - Arthur Askey

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11 Feb 05 - 03:31 PM (#1406244)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T

And of course Liz, the other one from Les Barker concerts. The man himself:-




"Ello"




DT

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11 Feb 05 - 03:52 PM (#1406263)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: gnu

I'm here. I'm here. Let the bells ring and the banners fly. I'm here. More cartoons.

It's great to be here in... (where are we tonight?)

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09 Feb 06 - 12:02 AM (#1664964)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin

You know those eight guys in the fantail launch out there? Well, none of 'em are gonna get out of the harbor alive.

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09 Feb 06 - 04:54 AM (#1665054)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Dave Hanson

And now for something completely different.

eric

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09 Feb 06 - 04:55 AM (#1665055)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Dave Hanson

Is this the right room for an argument ?

eric

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09 Feb 06 - 05:46 AM (#1665071)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST,CrazyEddie

Sorry I'm late, but they took the lid off the swimming pool, and the champagne went flat.
Planter's Peanut advert.

My name is Bond, James Bond....

Also,
My name is Bond, Basildon Bond, I have letters after my name...
My name is Bond, Basildon Bond, as you can see, I'm stationery...

(Back when people wrote letters, "Basildon Bonnd" was a popular writing paper.)

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09 Feb 06 - 05:54 AM (#1665073)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: The Fooles Troupe

Answer:

If it's Mudcat, it is...

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09 Feb 06 - 09:15 AM (#1665187)
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From: Amos

Honey! I'm hooome!


A

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09 Feb 06 - 04:51 PM (#1665466)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin

Welcome to Sherwood!

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09 Feb 06 - 05:59 PM (#1665520)
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From: Susu's Hubby

Noooorm!



Hubby

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09 Feb 06 - 07:15 PM (#1665583)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Lonesome EJ

Call me Ishmael...Moby Dick


It was the Best of times: It was the Worst of times. It was the Age of Wisdom: It was the age of Foolishness. It was the Spring of Hope: It was the Winter of Despair.
....A Tale of Two Cities, which also had perhaps the greatest exit lines in literature...
It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done before. It is a far better rest I go to, than I have ever known.

Then there's always...
We were somewhere just outside of Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold...Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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09 Feb 06 - 07:52 PM (#1665604)
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From: GUEST,Wesley S

"Good Morning Campers !"

Uncle Ernie

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09 Feb 06 - 07:56 PM (#1665609)
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From: Bill D

"Arf, arf!"

"That's my dog, Tige, he lives in a shoe!"

Buster Brown

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09 Feb 06 - 08:08 PM (#1665624)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin

I am Bear Claw Chris Lapp... bloodkin to the grizzer that bit Jim Bridger's ass! And you are molesting my hunt!

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09 Feb 06 - 08:10 PM (#1665629)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: number 6

"The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there"

Opening line to the movie "The Go Between"


sIx

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24 Feb 06 - 02:17 PM (#1677923)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin

Where's my piratin' outfit?

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24 Feb 06 - 02:55 PM (#1677945)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST,Nancy King at work

Gooood Moorrningg, Vietnaaaaam!    --Robin Williams as Adrian Kronauer

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24 Feb 06 - 03:13 PM (#1677960)
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From: Purple Foxx

"You're surprised to see me sir?"
Sherlock Holmes "The Empty House"

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24 Feb 06 - 03:13 PM (#1677961)
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From: catspaw49

"SING OUT LOUISE!!!".........Argued by the people who played Mama Rose in "Gypsy" to be the greatest opening line a character ever had.

Spaw

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24 Feb 06 - 06:01 PM (#1678098)
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From: autolycus

"Hello, well it's certainly a great thrill for you to see me tonight."

Opening of Jackie Mason's cabaret act, as heard on his first record entitled "I'm the Greatest Comedian in the World Only Nobody Knows it Yet".

My fave. comedy record.

Ivor

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24 Feb 06 - 08:18 PM (#1678180)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: GUEST

"Hi there, buckaroos. Scamp Walker time again; tryin' to slide one by you once more..." - Jerry Jeff Walker

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24 Feb 06 - 09:42 PM (#1678218)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Ebbie

As he sat down to begin his set, Michael Truax said, I imagine those of you who haven't heard me before are pretty nervous right now.

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25 Feb 06 - 01:06 AM (#1678294)
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From: Cluin

Bring out your dead!

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25 Feb 06 - 01:40 AM (#1678299)
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From: Elmer Fudd

"It was a dark and stormy night..." -- Bullwer-Lytton, after whom a worst opening sentence contest is named

"Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me?" — Mae West

"Now is the winter of our discontent." -- obviously not the bloke greeting Mae West

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25 Feb 06 - 04:13 AM (#1678334)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Wilfried Schaum

"Hier spricht Schorsch Hiese" = "This is (Sgt) George Hiese speaking" when opening fire with his machine gun on the beach of Tanga, Dec 4, 1914.
A British attack with one Irish and three Indian regiments was repelled by eight companies of German regulars and volunteers in German South West (now Tanganyika).

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25 Feb 06 - 05:03 AM (#1678352)
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From: John J

In comes I....

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25 Feb 06 - 05:17 AM (#1678361)
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From: David C. Carter

"My name's Wall,my father was a Brick"-Max Wall

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25 Feb 06 - 02:48 PM (#1678710)
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From: Cluin

F__k, it's cold outside!

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25 Feb 06 - 08:16 PM (#1678922)
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From: Joybell

When Gregor Samsa awoke from uneasy dreams, he discovered that he had been transformed into a gigantic insect.

OOOOOOOOH! AHHHHHHHH! That's my favourite. Cheers, Joy

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25 Feb 06 - 08:25 PM (#1678929)
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From: Donuel

Hello, I am announcing myself, just in case Dick Cheney is around.

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25 Feb 06 - 08:30 PM (#1678931)
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From: SINSULL

I dreamed I was in Manderlay again...

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26 Feb 06 - 03:31 AM (#1679067)
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From: Wilfried Schaum

Error in my post of Feb 25: Tanga was in German EAST Africa (Tanganyika). Beg your pardon for the lapse.

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26 Feb 06 - 04:49 PM (#1679673)
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From: leftydee

Who? It's me, my name is Pinky Lee

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26 Feb 06 - 05:09 PM (#1679691)
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From: Don Firth

"He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad."
                            —Rafael Sabatini (the opening line of Scaramouche)

Don Firth

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26 Feb 06 - 09:03 PM (#1679875)
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From: Cluin

Overture, curtain, lights!
This is it!The night of nights.
No more rehearsing or nursing a part;
We know every part by heart!

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27 Feb 06 - 12:28 AM (#1679995)
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From: Joybell

Once upon a time....

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27 Feb 06 - 03:56 AM (#1680037)
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From: Big Al Whittle

Hi there gang! I feel like talking a lot tonight, cos I ain't seen anyone all day.....

Derek Brimstone

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27 Feb 06 - 10:57 AM (#1680275)
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From: M.Ted

I'm glad to know there are some of us left, LeftyDee--

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27 Feb 06 - 11:18 AM (#1680283)
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From: M.Ted

Except that it's:

'ooHoo! It's Me!

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28 Feb 06 - 06:15 AM (#1680932)
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From: Bunnahabhain

The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up and remembering where he was.

Life, the Universe, and Everything.

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28 Feb 06 - 08:40 AM (#1680989)
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From: Charmion

Gimme a whiskey, ginger-ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.

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28 Feb 06 - 08:46 AM (#1680998)
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From: Rapparee

I may vomit.

          --The Man Who Came To Dinner

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28 Feb 06 - 11:24 AM (#1681120)
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From: Wilfried Schaum

Hello there!

Sir Alec Guinness as Obiwan Kenobe in Star Wars.

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28 Feb 06 - 06:40 PM (#1681672)
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From: Cluin

Are you an athathin?

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28 Feb 06 - 11:04 PM (#1681878)
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From: jimmyt

I seem to open many a gig by saying, "drink up, we're not that good"

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01 Mar 06 - 02:03 AM (#1681938)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Gurney

Be quiet, now! You didn't come here to enjoy yourselves. You came here to listen to folk music!
Toole, opening folk club nights.

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01 Mar 06 - 12:54 PM (#1682398)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin

NORM!

What's shakin', Mr Peterson?

All four cheeks and a couple of chins, Woody. Gimme a beer.

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01 Mar 06 - 03:01 PM (#1682520)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: cool hand Tom

Mayor of Negasaki.

WHAT THE F**K WAS THAT.......

apologies to any japaneese catters

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01 Mar 06 - 03:10 PM (#1682535)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: Cluin

That's an exit line, Tom.

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01 Mar 06 - 05:01 PM (#1682595)
Subject: RE: BS: Entrance Lines
From: cool hand Tom

well its a good exit line eh.

Regards Tom

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