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26 Aug 04 - 10:38 AM (#1257301) Subject: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: The Shambles When folk have trouble with others parking across their driveways and paint the road or put up big signs saying 'IN CONSTANT USE'. Well, if it was, no one would be able to park there......... |
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26 Aug 04 - 10:43 AM (#1257304) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Amos Wonderful thread title, I must say, Roger. In recent history, "I did not have sex witht hat owman" comes to mind. Right up there with "We know where the weapons of mass destruction are - they are north and south of Tikrit and also east and west of there....". A |
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26 Aug 04 - 10:52 AM (#1257308) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Wolfgang Why was my thread closed twice? (Shambles) Well if it would have been your thread it couldn't have been closed, could it? Yes, I know it was only a short way of expressing something a bit more complicated and thread titles only take so many letters, but I just try to imagine how long the road sign should have been to avoid the label 'lie'. Wolfgang |
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26 Aug 04 - 11:00 AM (#1257316) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Bill D which makes those clever thousand word 'disclaimers' people sometimes post even funnier, Wolfgang. (I remember when I was in college, complaining that "I don't have time to write a short paper." |
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26 Aug 04 - 11:01 AM (#1257319) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: pdq "This will hurt me more than it hurts you!" |
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26 Aug 04 - 11:28 AM (#1257343) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Once Famous "The money part of it means nothing to me" "But she has a nice personality." |
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26 Aug 04 - 11:30 AM (#1257344) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: DMcG The old British Rail Timetables used to come with a very thick copy of the rules and regulations. My favourite was that their selling to a ticket between two stations could not be construed as indicating that they ran trains between those stations. Nor, indeed, that they had ever run trains between them. Or planned to. |
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26 Aug 04 - 11:30 AM (#1257345) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Wolfgang Bill, I know. It is awfully difficult to find the balance between being short and absolutely precise. I suffer from that (not too much) each time I have formulated a task for the students. Nearly each time someone with a bad grade comes to me and tells me that my formulation was not precise enough and therefore there is a possible reading which would make his response correct. Once I got so fed up with these complaints that just for the fun of it I spelled all assumptions, even the trivial ones, in a task involving probabilities. I not just wrote 'fair dice' which usually to everybody is an acceptable expression, I wrote 'fair dice which has not been rolled previously and is replaced after each roll by another fair dice and is rolled by a person without the ability to roll a dice in a way to make a certain result more probable...". My formulation was less ambiguous than before but also less easy to understand. I did get less correct solutions. It is sometimes just fun to read what people actually have written and not what we know they have meant (and that's how I understand this thread here), but if you go for that game (finding a possible ambiguity in someone else's posts) with a serious intention then the fun stops. But as I said this is a fun thread. Wolfgang |
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26 Aug 04 - 11:36 AM (#1257348) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: The Shambles Wolfgang, I did think hard and long about Why was my thread closed twice? If I had titled it 'Why was 'this' thread closed twice?' someone would (even possibly you) could have pointed out that if I was not the originator it was not 'my' thread, and that I should mind my own business. As you may know I am trying to encourage folk to request editing only to their own contributions. But are you saying that if it were not my thread it was the thread of the person who decided to close it twice? But you are rather making my point for me. The creator usually gets credited with some form of ownership or possibly respect. Perhaps not now on our forum. Perhaps here the editor now think they own every contibution or at least everything that they do not choose to delete? Not too sure if my thread title really was a lie. If not a complete explanation saying something is in constant use when it clearly is not- is a lie. I will expect Kevin will post now to continue the definitions of open and closed, maintaining that they are not mutually exclusive..... And there I was thinking that I would start a 'fun' thread for a change.......... |
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26 Aug 04 - 11:37 AM (#1257351) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Bill D so, in the spirit of the thread... "...your call is very important to us. Please hold and the next available representative will be with you shortly." |
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26 Aug 04 - 11:41 AM (#1257357) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Wolfgang "Eat children" was the title of a course offered in parent education. "Eat, children" was what was meant. "Sorry, no vacancies" (they should be glad when are fully booked) "sheep crossing" (when I see sheep crossing I don't need the sign; when I don't see animals it is a 'lie') Wolfgang |
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26 Aug 04 - 11:49 AM (#1257372) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: John MacKenzie Of course I love you. Your cheque's in the post etc....Giok |
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26 Aug 04 - 12:05 PM (#1257385) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: khandu "I am not a crook"- Richard Nixon "Not Guilty" - The OJ Simpson jury k |
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26 Aug 04 - 12:07 PM (#1257387) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: dunkel_esel parents say '...this is for your own good...' It never is. mj |
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26 Aug 04 - 12:08 PM (#1257388) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Amergin Khandu...that last is not really a lie...OJ was not guilty that he killed those two people... |
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26 Aug 04 - 12:26 PM (#1257405) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: The Shambles One for Bill D. Signs in record stores, that say Folk Music. |
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26 Aug 04 - 12:31 PM (#1257409) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: s&r Of course I trust you |
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26 Aug 04 - 12:35 PM (#1257411) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Wolfgang Who fears to speak of '98? (first published anonymously) Wolfgang |
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26 Aug 04 - 12:49 PM (#1257421) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Ebbie Amergin, I don't follow. Do you mean that OJ was not guilty because the jury found him 'not guilty'? If no one saw me take the last cookie, I am still guilty of taking the last cookie, right? |
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26 Aug 04 - 01:06 PM (#1257429) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: The Shambles "I'm speechless!" |
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26 Aug 04 - 01:09 PM (#1257430) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: GUEST,amergin Ebbie, no i meant that OJ murdered them...but didn't feel guilty about it....so in essence he was Not Guilty. |
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26 Aug 04 - 01:13 PM (#1257436) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Wolfgang I will keep this in mind. Wolfgang |
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26 Aug 04 - 01:16 PM (#1257438) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: GUEST "I wont come in your mouth" |
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26 Aug 04 - 01:27 PM (#1257447) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Wolfgang The members of the politbureau of the GDR singing at the opening of a congress: Wir sind die junge Garde des Proletariats (We are the young guard of the proletariat) Wolfgang |
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26 Aug 04 - 01:31 PM (#1257452) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: GUEST,Larry K Being a marketing person I hate "This space left intentionally blank" - how can it be blank with writing on it The biggest lie of all time is in construction zones with the sign "Men Working" - if they were working they would have fixed the damn problem already. You can't have a topic about lying without the Clintons. Bill- I didn't inhale, and Hillary saying Monica was a right wing conspiracy are just two of the many to choose from. On the silly side- Yogi Berra was a master of the mis statement- nobody goes there anymore because its too crowded. Do you want to go on a trip around the world- No I'd rather go somewhere else. But the award for the best liar of all times must go to Bagdad Bob- How quickly we forget. "We are winning the war" ignore those bombs dropping beside me. There are no american solders anywhere near Bagdad. etc etc. |
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26 Aug 04 - 01:35 PM (#1257457) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Alba " it's not you, it's me, can we be Friends as I value our Friendship but I am not ready for a relationship right now"......(reponse: as my fingers go down the throat in Vomit pose lol) Jude |
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26 Aug 04 - 01:44 PM (#1257467) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: The Shambles Well, we don't usually do requests. |
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26 Aug 04 - 01:48 PM (#1257472) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Bill D "folk music"...indeed, Shambles! *grin*...not a complete lie, as some of it might be...but... |
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26 Aug 04 - 03:12 PM (#1257537) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: khandu "No-Spin Zone" - Bill O'Reilly k |
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26 Aug 04 - 04:00 PM (#1257564) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Clinton Hammond The Magic Bullet |
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26 Aug 04 - 04:23 PM (#1257583) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: John MacKenzie I hope you don't think I do this with everybody! Giok |
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26 Aug 04 - 04:32 PM (#1257593) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: GUEST You're the best. |
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26 Aug 04 - 06:35 PM (#1257685) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: GUEST,GROK Bush was elected. |
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27 Aug 04 - 06:58 AM (#1258043) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: The Shambles Well, I think that is a very good question and I am glad that you asked me that.......... |
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27 Aug 04 - 09:07 AM (#1258141) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Gervase Politician: "With the greatest respect..." Ditto: "It's not about politics." Dog owner: "He's usually very good." And - in her eyes - any answer to the question: "Are you sure I look OK in this, darling?" |
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27 Aug 04 - 03:25 PM (#1258414) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Jim Dixon "Needless to say...." (If you truly believe it's needless to say, why are you saying it?) "With all due respect, Senator...." |
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27 Aug 04 - 03:26 PM (#1258418) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: GUEST,GROK "If I am elected . . . . " |
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27 Aug 04 - 03:28 PM (#1258420) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: GUEST,GROK "I did NOT have sex with Monica." |
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27 Aug 04 - 07:09 PM (#1258536) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: catspaw49 We did not trade guns for hostages. We are winning the war in VietNam. Oswald acted alone. I am not a crook. Clarence Thomas is the best man for the job. Spaw - with a thanks to Bill Maher |
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28 Aug 04 - 07:00 AM (#1258792) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: The Shambles I don't mind citicism - if it is constructive. |
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28 Aug 04 - 01:52 PM (#1258947) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: pdq With some people "just be yourself" is the worst possible advice you could give them! |
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28 Aug 04 - 07:04 PM (#1259162) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: GUEST,GROK "This is going to hurt me more . . . ." |
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28 Aug 04 - 07:33 PM (#1259172) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: khandu "God speaks through me!" Reverends Peter Popoff, Jerry Falwell, Rod Parsley, Robert Tilton, et al k |
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28 Aug 04 - 09:01 PM (#1259223) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: Bee-dubya-ell "The dog farted" |
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28 Aug 04 - 10:38 PM (#1259268) Subject: A BREATH OF FRESH AIR !! From: khandu My farts don't stink |
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29 Aug 04 - 12:13 AM (#1259284) Subject: RE: BS: Great and not so great, lies of our time From: GUEST,Tang The Orangutan The government should stay out of people's bedrooms. Of course that only speaks for people who are sleeping with other people. It speaks nothing to the great prejudice one receives when they date outside their species. I am ashamed at these so-called liberals. How come they never speak up for those of us who are not human? |