Posted on 08/06/2006 4:28:00 AM PDT by SLB
LOL
These are great, thanks.
LOL.
Take the challenge... almost 30 years apart and you will be amused. I never said I didn't like his work but, if you look at these two movies, back to back, you'll get a giggle
That was Hill and Disraeli in Commons. It's an extreme abbreviation of their two speeches.
http://flashbackmiami.com/2015/01/02/winston-churchill-visits-miami/
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/having-chat-churchills-parrot-114-13642592
Parrot pictured with Winston Churchill still drawing a crowd after 67 years
https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01365/parrot_1365876c.jpg
Note: this topic is from . Thanks SLB.
Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year.
Legendary USC football coach John McKay circa 1969. What did you think of your teams execution. I think it’s good idea. (after being upset).
Wish the parrot could remember more, such as comments on Stalin, Roosevelt or DeGaulle. I bet Winnie had some choice things to say about le grand Charles.
Git-English
An unpleasant or contemptible person.
Given that its a British saying, I always took it to mean that a git was a form of getone who was begotten. A person. A stupid git is simply a stupid person, but sounds so much worse.
“One from my father: “If you had another brain it would rattle.”
Or as an uncle used to say “a brain in that boy’s head would amount to a BB in a boxcar”.
If you grew up in the old south the worst thing someone could say to you was “well bless your heart”.
If you heard that you knew their estimation of you was lower than a snakes belly in a wagon rut.
Folks didn’t even say that to/about the town idiot.
It served purpose as a humiliating put down as well as an expression of heartfelt pity.
Context was everything.
Join the Lazamataz wing of the party. No shortage of action there!
Churchill about a pompous, self-important Minister as he swept past him in the halls of Parliament:
“There, but for the grace of God....goes God!”
What? No Lady Astor/Churchill insults?
"I am sitting in the smallest room in the house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me."
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