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| Uncle Fred
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| 619898. Wed Sep 30, 2009 6:38 am |
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| Quote: | | On the cue 'five aunts' I had given at the knees a trifle, for the thought of being confronted with such a solid gaggle of aunts, even if those of another, was an unnerving one. Reminding myself that in this life it is not aunts that matter, but the courage that one brings to them, I pulled myself together |
--P.G. Wodehouse
The last sentence is a pretty good attitude for life in general, I feel.. |
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| suze
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| 621141. Fri Oct 02, 2009 4:19 pm |
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| Quote: | | I'm not the cleverest person in the world; that's Stephen Fry. |
| Quote: | | Oh, I've eaten swan twice ... I thought it tasted rather like moorhen. |
Both Clarissa Dickson Wright. |
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| jdean
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| 621196. Fri Oct 02, 2009 9:45 pm |
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| Quote: | | Never kick a dog up the arse if you have your hand in it's mouth |
My father.
The only good advice he was able to give me. |
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| Starfish13
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| 621240. Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:09 am |
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| suze wrote: | | Quote: | | Oh, I've eaten swan twice ... I thought it tasted rather like moorhen. |
Both Clarissa Dickson Wright. |
Eagle? It would taste like osprey, but not as fishy.
My Dad |
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| cherrycoke
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| 621293. Sat Oct 03, 2009 7:43 am |
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| Quote: | | "Being able to choose your friends is God's way of apologising for lumping you with your family" |
My Dad |
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| Davini994
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| zomgmouse
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| 639643. Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:37 pm |
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| "The civilisation of one epoch becomes the manure of the next." - Cyril Connolly |
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| zomgmouse
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| 639644. Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:42 pm |
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| "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." - H.L. Mencken |
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| zomgmouse
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| 639714. Tue Nov 24, 2009 1:53 am |
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| "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." - Thomas Pynchon |
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| zomgmouse
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| 640045. Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:11 pm |
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| "I and my public understand each other very well: it does not hear what I say, and I don't say what it wants to hear." - Karl Kraus |
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| zomgmouse
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| 642864. Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:35 am |
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| "Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?" - Jules Feiffer |
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| zomgmouse
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| 643359. Fri Dec 04, 2009 10:08 pm |
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| "If there were a verb meaning 'to believe falsely,' it would not have any significant first person, present indicative." - Ludwig Wittgenstein |
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| Zaphod Beeblebrox
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| 647627. Fri Dec 18, 2009 9:25 pm |
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| "Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation" (James Hogg) |
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| Davini994
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| Spud McLaren
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| 657650. Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:56 pm |
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| Davini994 wrote: | Charlie Brooker on Mariah Carey:
| Quote: | | Her singing voice wavers up and down through the octaves, like someone slowly tuning a shortwave radio in search of an authentic emotion. |
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Brooker omits "...and never finding one." |
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