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tripps
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24/02/2011
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I've been thinking of starting this topic for a while. Let's see how it goes....
Asked if he was in charge of the nation, in the absence of the Prime Minister - Mr Clegg told Metro: ‘Yeah, I suppose I am. I forgot about that.’
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 24/05/2011 : 06:02
Ahh, Marriot Edgar! You're a man of quality Brad! 'And t'Duke said Right lads, let battle commence!'
One quotation from a poem sticks in my head and I've never gone searching for it in case I was disappointed. The context is a gaggle of old, dead, ghostly generals commenting on Monty in the desert. 'It wasn't our practice to fight in snow boots and Good God Sir! What's this? An umbrella?!'
Stanley Challenger Graham
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belle
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Posted - 24/05/2011 : 10:26
My favourite quote is from the Battle of Hastings poem "They were offside, but what could they do?"
Life is what you make it |
belle
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Posted - 24/05/2011 : 10:33
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pDPSh8U0Gc enjoy!
Life is what you make it |
panbiker
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Posted - 24/05/2011 : 13:03
And the follow up Magna Charter
Barge full of Barons: "We thought you'd be ere so we've come"
Ian |
Stanley
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 06:11
Just think, a man like Stanley Holloway could stand on a stage and entertain simply by reciting a monologue. Times have changed haven't they.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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panbiker
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 08:38
We have a friend who's party piece is to recite one or maybe two if your lucky, (depends if you have plied enough whisky). Runcorn Ferry, the Albert sagas, Magna Charter and Three h'apence a foot are all thankfully still in Alans recall. Thing is you know most of the words yourself and you know what's coming but they still entertain for the way they are delivered.
"Now he'd just snapped the ed of a big un"
Priceless!
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Bradders
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Posted - 25/05/2011 : 12:02
My personal favourite is "Little Aggie" , especially when done by Bernard Wrigley..........
The bit that always gets me is near the end .......
She 'adnt thestrength to say "ninety-nine"
She just managed a weak "eighty-five"
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tripps
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Posted - 27/05/2011 : 09:07
Sky news just said - (following reports that anywhere in Tripoli where he might be present, being bombed every night .)
"Colonel Ghaddafi's behaviour is becoming increasingly paranoid, and his behaviour erratic"
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Stanley
Local Historian & Old Fart
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Posted - 28/05/2011 : 05:00
I missed that David. I thought he was already at peak paranoia! Mind you...
"Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they aren't out to get you" I think that may be quite true in this case!
Stanley Challenger Graham
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tripps
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Posted - 04/06/2011 : 13:41
John McCririck -
"Don't back the Queen's horse in the Derby this afternoon - it cannot win"
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Bradders
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Posted - 04/06/2011 : 17:17
Seems to know what he's talking about ..eh ! (but it was quite close , I understand )
BRADDERS BLUESINGER |
Bradders
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Posted - 04/06/2011 : 17:27
"Someone get one a large gin, no tonic "!
Queen_UK (on twitter )
BRADDERS BLUESINGER |
gearce
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Posted - 05/06/2011 : 04:29
"As useful as a back pocket on a shirt" - Dr. Cal Lightman in the TV series Lie To Me
"As thick as yer granny's soup" - D.C.I. Matt Burke in the TV series Taggart
LANG MEY YER LUM REEK
There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all |
tripps
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Posted - 05/06/2011 : 10:25
If Dick Francis had written yesterday's happenings in the Derby as a plot line, his publishers would have sent it back as fanciful.
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Tizer
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Posted - 05/06/2011 : 11:09
One of the scientists appearing on Professor Brian Cox's hilarious `Infinite Monkey' programme on Radio 4...
"Philosophy is to science as pornography is to sex - it's cheaper, easier and some people prefer it".
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