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WHEN INSULTS HAD CLASS
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Posted on 08/06/2006 4:28:00 AM PDT by SLB

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

"Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?" - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... If you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

"I cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... If there is one." - Winston Churchill, in reply.


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KEYWORDS: budgie; charlietheparrot; godsgravesglyphs; parrot; quotes; unitedkingdom; winstonchurchill
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To: Northern Yankee

LOL


181 posted on 08/06/2006 5:49:03 PM PDT by kassie
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To: Northern Yankee

These are great, thanks.


182 posted on 08/06/2006 5:49:59 PM PDT by kassie
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To: Lurker

LOL.


183 posted on 08/06/2006 6:08:37 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Loud Mime

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


184 posted on 08/06/2006 6:37:14 PM PDT by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: backhoe

That was Hill and Disraeli in Commons. It's an extreme abbreviation of their two speeches.


185 posted on 08/06/2006 6:52:25 PM PDT by Bonaparte
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http://flashbackmiami.com/2015/01/02/winston-churchill-visits-miami/

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/having-chat-churchills-parrot-114-13642592

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4985813/Parrot-pictured-with-Winston-Churchill-still-drawing-a-crowd-after-67-years.html

Parrot pictured with Winston Churchill still drawing a crowd after 67 years

https://secure.i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01365/parrot_1365876c.jpg


186 posted on 12/21/2018 10:59:55 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: 240B; 75thOVI; Adder; albertp; asgardshill; At the Window; bitt; blu; BradyLS; cajungirl; ...
Note: this topic is from 08/06/2006. Thanks SLB.
Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year.

187 posted on 12/21/2018 11:02:04 AM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: SLB

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).


188 posted on 12/21/2018 11:04:58 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now; build Kate's wall. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: SunkenCiv

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.


189 posted on 12/21/2018 11:56:49 AM PST by colorado tanker
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To: elcid1970

Git-English
An unpleasant or contemptible person.


190 posted on 12/21/2018 2:39:53 PM PST by oldvirginian ( Buckle up kids, rough road ahead.)
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To: SLB
Love Winston Churchill. These are all great.
191 posted on 12/21/2018 2:43:48 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: elcid1970

Given that it’s a British saying, I always took it to mean that a ‘git’ was a form of ‘get’—‘one who was begotten.’ A person. A ‘stupid git’ is simply a stupid person, but sounds so much worse.


192 posted on 12/21/2018 2:57:36 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: sig226

“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”.


193 posted on 12/21/2018 3:02:15 PM PST by oldvirginian ( Buckle up kids, rough road ahead.)
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To: SLB

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.


194 posted on 12/21/2018 3:08:47 PM PST by oldvirginian ( Buckle up kids, rough road ahead.)
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To: Lurker

Join the Lazamataz wing of the party. No shortage of action there!


195 posted on 12/21/2018 3:36:55 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: SunkenCiv; SLB; Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON
Wow, this thread takes me back. Okay, here are a few.


196 posted on 12/21/2018 4:12:22 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: Gamecock; SaveFerris; PROCON

197 posted on 12/21/2018 4:21:36 PM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: VOA

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!”


198 posted on 12/21/2018 5:26:06 PM PST by elcid1970 (My gun safe is saying, "Room for one more, honey!")
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To: SLB

What? No Lady Astor/Churchill insults?


199 posted on 12/22/2018 6:27:35 AM PST by Tallguy
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To: Darkwolf377
It was composer Erik Satie, replying to a critic:

"I am sitting in the smallest room in the house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me."

200 posted on 12/22/2018 6:32:55 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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