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  georgenorman  14 Feb 24 7.34am |
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
Sir Thomas Beecham.....incest & folk dancing. also, bravo to the chap above....it WAS Groucho Marx. next : “First prize was a week in Philadelphia. Second prize was two weeks.” There is also a story that Beecham, during the early 1900s, in the foyer of a Manchester hotel, saw a distinguished-looking woman that he thought he recognised but could not remember her name. He spoke to her and as he did so vaguely recollected that she had a brother. Hoping for a clue, he asked how her brother was and whether he was still working at the same job. 'Oh, he’s very well,' she answered, 'and still king.'
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| ex hibitionist Hastings 14 Feb 24 11.03am |
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Originally posted by ASCPFC
I remember most of these but for the life of me cannot remember who said them. I get the feeling one might be somebody like Cleese, is one Thatcher? in order Jay Leno
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ASCPFC  Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 14 Feb 24 12.09pm |
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Interesting, the Reagan one I should have got. Plus had heard Jay Leno say that but couldn't remember.
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| ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 14 Feb 24 12.12pm |
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Originally posted by Lanzo-Ad
1.“The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.” 2 is going to be Marx or Engels - presumably Marx. The others I've come across but it is no surprise that I can't remember - which goes back to no. 1.
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| ASCPFC Pro-Cathedral/caravan park 14 Feb 24 12.15pm |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
Still, nice to see him get a mention. He was a remarkable man. Indeed - basically discovered cells. And I believe 17th century which sounds recent but is quite old for science. I only remembered the name as I was watching a documentary on TV about Charles II and society.
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Teddy Eagle  14 Feb 24 12.51pm |
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Originally posted by ASCPFC
Indeed - basically discovered cells. And I believe 17th century which sounds recent but is quite old for science. I only remembered the name as I was watching a documentary on TV about Charles II and society. He's well worth looking up - he was involved in many areas. If Newton hadn't taken against him he'd be much better known. Who said: “I don’t believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I’m scared in case something will happen if I don’t do them.”
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| Badger11 Beckenham 14 Feb 24 1.14pm |
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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio
well done Hrolf the Granger.....you already have one talon on a cheese bun. a. Vlad Putin b. Joseph Paxton
next "The Crowd Came to the Funeral, Not To Mourn, But To Make Sure the Person Was Dead" I think this has been said many times about many people including Harry Cohn The Head of Columbia pictures when 50,000 people turned up at his funeral. It was said you had to stand in line to hate him.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 14 Feb 24 1.23pm |
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One of my favourites "Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt" "Victory has a thousand fathers defeat is an orphan" "The louder he talked of his honour, the faster we counted our spoons."
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| Hrolf The Ganger 14 Feb 24 1.33pm |
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Originally posted by Badger11
I think this has been said many times about many people including Harry Cohn The Head of Columbia pictures when 50,000 people turned up at his funeral. It was said you had to stand in line to hate him. I could have barking up the wrong tree on that then. Because the quote used the word 'person' I assumed that it wasn't specific.
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| Badger11 Beckenham 14 Feb 24 2.36pm |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
I could have barking up the wrong tree on that then. Because the quote used the word 'person' I assumed that it wasn't specific. No but I think it's one of those quotations that would be difficult to narrow down as it has been used so often in the past.
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Slimey Toad  Karsiyaka, North Cyprus 14 Feb 24 3.00pm |
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Continuing the capitalism/communism theme, this is a good one: Under capitalism, man exploits man.
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PalazioVecchio  south pole 14 Feb 24 10.39pm |
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"An Editor is: A Person Employed on a Newspaper, Whose Business It Is To Separate the Wheat from the Chaff, and To See that the Chaff Is Printed". "You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it". Edited by PalazioVecchio (14 Feb 2024 11.01pm)
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