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Posted on 08/06/2006 4:28:00 AM PDT by SLB
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To: backhoe
You actually have to go back to the eighteenth century for that one. It was the Earl of Sandwich who expressed the opinion that his rival would die "on the gallows or of the pox".
John Wilkes replied, "It depends on whether I embrace your lordship's principles, or your lordship's mistress."
To: SLB
Churchill...best-in-class in this contest!
(IMHO)
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posted on
08/06/2006 6:55:49 AM PDT
by
VOA
To: Loud Mime
He had to play an uneducated, self centered buffoon whose knowledge was short on content and long on delivery. Travolta took that acting job to heart, and so well that he continues to this day. My wife knew David Hyde Pierce in High School. When she saw him on that short-lived sit-com before his Frasier role she said, "He's not acting. That's what he's like."
I suspect John's friends said the same about ol' Vinnie.
Shalom.
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posted on
08/06/2006 6:56:04 AM PDT
by
ArGee
(The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
To: Northern Yankee
I love this thread. Great put down quotes.
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posted on
08/06/2006 6:56:05 AM PDT
by
lysie
("Lowering the price to be paid by aggressors virtually guarantees more aggression." Dr. Sowell)
To: sig226
tee hee That is the Churchill quote I was going to post. I love it.
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posted on
08/06/2006 6:56:20 AM PDT
by
Ditter
To: backhoe
Yes - the version I heard was
"If you won't embrace my principles a pox be upon you sir!"
"the only way I'll get he pox is if I embrace your mistress"
Same thing.
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posted on
08/06/2006 6:57:30 AM PDT
by
vimto
(Blighty Awaken!)
To: ops33
Of all the insults I have read on this post, that's the worse! I think I've seen her a couple of times in bars, dances, parties, etc. Oh, I presumed he was talking about Helen Thomas.
Shalom.
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posted on
08/06/2006 6:57:36 AM PDT
by
ArGee
(The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
To: lysie
I used to wake up at 4am and start sneezing, sometimes for 5 hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. -James Thurber
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posted on
08/06/2006 6:58:49 AM PDT
by
Carolinamom
(Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. ---Barry Goldwater)
To: Northern Yankee
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posted on
08/06/2006 7:01:49 AM PDT
by
kassie
To: ArGee
Ergo: a one-dimensional actor.
I abhor Dustin Hoffman's politics, but he's the best actor. He's played every part well. Tootsie was the best, an insult of Hollywood that lasted over an hour.
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posted on
08/06/2006 7:02:56 AM PDT
by
Loud Mime
("Countdown": A documentary about Keith Olbermann's dwindling IQ.....)
To: ArGee
In the late 60s or early 70s, I attended an Issac Hayes concert at DAR Constitution Hall and the warm-up act was a new and virtually unknown comic named Gabiel Kaplan.
We were rolling in the aisles with aching sides and tears in our eyes by the time he finished with us. One of the funniest acts I've ever seen in person.
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posted on
08/06/2006 7:03:46 AM PDT
by
savedbygrace
(SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
To: backhoe
Now, that's the funniest thing I've read all week!! Having watched modern floor coverage from Parliament, I can just see and hear this exchange happening!
Thanks for the laugh, but I now have to go clean up my keyboard from the spittake I just performed. ;-)
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posted on
08/06/2006 7:04:49 AM PDT
by
Jackknife
( "It's not a real party 'til somebody breaks something.")
To: SLB
My personal favorite:
On conceit...
Little-minded peoples' thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.
An arc in the movement of a large intellect does not differ sensibly from a straight line.
Oliver Wendall Holmes
To: sig226
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posted on
08/06/2006 7:07:48 AM PDT
by
Jackknife
( "It's not a real party 'til somebody breaks something.")
To: Arrowhead
... a gap-toothed and hoary ape, who now in his dotage spits and chatters from a dirtier perch of his own finding, and fouling; coryphaeus or choragus of his Bulgarian tribe of autocoprophagaus baboons.
Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909) on Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
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posted on
08/06/2006 7:09:20 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998. (stolen from one cool dude))
To: SLB
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posted on
08/06/2006 7:13:06 AM PDT
by
P.O.E.
To: jocon307
"Every word she writes is a lie, including "and" and "the." - - - Mary McCarthy (about Lillian Hellman)" That line applies to nearly every newspaper, entertainment fop, TV opinionator of today, and all but a few of the authors of books.
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posted on
08/06/2006 7:15:58 AM PDT
by
SandRat
(Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
To: SandRat
"He walked as if he had fouled his small clothes and looks as if he smelt it. " Christopher Smart (1722-71), British poet on Thomas Gray (1716-71), British poet
insults.net.
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posted on
08/06/2006 7:19:08 AM PDT
by
don-o
(Proudly posting without reading the thread since 1998. (stolen from one cool dude))
To: Carolinamom
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posted on
08/06/2006 7:20:03 AM PDT
by
lysie
("Lowering the price to be paid by aggressors virtually guarantees more aggression." Dr. Sowell)
To: lysie
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. -Jules Renard
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posted on
08/06/2006 7:21:54 AM PDT
by
Carolinamom
(Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue. ---Barry Goldwater)
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