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.................Nice guys finish last............

...............The older I get.....the better I was.........

...............If you cant run with the big dogs......stay on the porch.........

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Here's my WWII buff coming out.

To the commander of the 101st in Bastogne, from the german Colonel leading the attack against the American forces "Surrender now or you, and the city of Bastogne will be utterly destroyed"

The message back?  "NUTS!"    lol


"A drop of sweat will save a gallon of blood" - George S. Patton

-Eric

"It makes it sound like the amp is about ready to explode, that's because it IS about ready to explode." -Joe

"I've come all the way from Colorado... Long way from my home. Give me the hammer that killed John Henry..." The Ballad Of John Henry

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The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five. -Carl Sagan, astronomer and writer (1934-1996)

--Vik  cool

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"There's no money above the 5th fret"

Anonymous??? Zappa or Thorogood??? tongue  tongue

or maybe Nickelback

You Can Do Anything You Want To Do

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Here's one for all us lot in the UK who need to vote next month...Personally I'm voting for the Green Party  smile ...

PRIME MINISTER Gordon Brown today apologised "profusely" after he was caught on microphone branding a woman who spoke to him on the campaign trail "bigoted".

The PM's comments came as he was driven away from an event in Rochdale at which 65-year-old widow Gillian Duffy tackled him in front of the cameras about Britain's financial problems, taxes, student financing and immigration. 

(She was also a life long supporter of the Labour party I may add)

Unaware that his radio mike was still connected, Mr Brown told an aide that the encounter had been "a disaster" and said he should never have been made to speak with Mrs Duffy, adding: "She was just a bigoted woman."

OOps ooops and double ooops!  neutral

TO LOVE IS TO LISTEN TO LISTEN IS TO LOVE

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"To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical"

- Thomas Jefferson

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"I removed the rear view mirror from my car last week and i hav`nt looked back since"

"A kid tossed a frisbee  at me, i could`nt tell what it was at first!!! Then it hit me"

"Joe Bonamassa"Funkier than a mosquitoe`s tweeter

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"Give a man an inch & right away he thinks he's a ruler"

Maxwell Smart

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Here is the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an a**hole.

3. Intaxicaton: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.

12. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

13. Glibido: All talk and no action.

14. Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

15. Arachnoleptic Fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.

16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

17. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.

The Washington Post has also published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

And the winners are:

1. Coffee (n.): The person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted (adj.): Appalled by discovering how much weight one has gained.

3. Abdicate (v.): To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade (v.): To attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Willy-nilly (adj.): Impotent.

6. Negligent (adj.): Absentmindedly answering the door when wearing only a nightgown.

7. Lymph (v.): To walk with a lisp.

8. Gargoyle (n.): Olive-flavored mouthwash.

9. Flatulence (n.): Emergency vehicle that picks up someone who has been run over by a steamroller.

10. Balderdash (n.): A rapidly receding hairline.

11. Testicle (n.): A humorous question on an exam.

12. Rectitude (n.): The formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

13. Pokemon (n.): A Rastafarian proctologist.

14. Oyster (n.): A person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

15. Frisbeetarianism (n.): The belief that, after death, the soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

16. Circumvent (n.): An opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

You Can Do Anything You Want To Do

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Just brilliant Mike, I love the play on the Engleesh language

(Or should I say Engleash...stiff upper lip  big_smile )

This is my favourite...

3. Abdicate (v.): To give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.  yikes

Here's some fine quotes/examples from The Two Ronnies ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz2-ukrd2VQ

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ALBERT EINSTEIN, Living Philosophies

When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.

...lol!... i love that!

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
R. Buckminster Fuller

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All these are courtesy of Ruth Sweeney, a friend of my son  smile

When life gives u lemons make lemonade!(anon)

Perhaps the feelings we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.(Chekhov)

For most of history Anonymous was a woman! (Woolf)

love many, trust few, always paddle in your own canoe.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. (Shakespeare)

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"I'm busier than a 3 legged cat trying to bury turds on an ice pond" - source unknown

after expelling some serious trapped gas in the office one day, my secretary exclaimed out of the blue "Speak to me oh toothless wonder"....have no idea where she got it.

As corn through a goose, so are the days of our lives

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"If I don’t hear spiritual and sensual in the blues, I ain’t gonna listen to you. I’d rather go play tennis! In a few notes, you have to hit me. You have to hit my molecular structure in a way — like my first French kiss. You know how that feels!”

- Carlos Santana

You bring your guitar and I'll bring the wine.  - Little Feat

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ahsmith33 wrote:

"I'm busier than a 3 legged cat trying to bury turds on an ice pond" - source unknown

after expelling some serious trapped gas in the office one day, my secretary exclaimed out of the blue "Speak to me oh toothless wonder"....have no idea where she got it.

She get's a raise!

MuchRippingByYou
TheSecretaryReplies
aWonderIndeed

Rock On & Keep the FAITH
             It is
Blues From the Bottoms

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"He's about as much use as a chocolate fire-guard"

"About as much chance of finding as rocking-horse **##"

TO LOVE IS TO LISTEN TO LISTEN IS TO LOVE

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glad you revived this Brack. my son saw a sig line on somebody's FB the other day,

"Bad spellers of the world untie!"

Tres

As corn through a goose, so are the days of our lives

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Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions.  -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., novelist (1922-2007)

^^^
And that quote is from his novel Bluebeard, before the whole internet explosion.  Even truer these days.