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Message 637489 - Posted: 9 Sep 2007, 21:54:26 UTC

War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.
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Message 637575 - Posted: 9 Sep 2007, 23:26:25 UTC
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Carl Spackler, (Bill Murray, Caddyshack):

So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet, and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy, a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald. striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one - big hitter, the Lama - long, into a ten-thousand foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier. And do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga gunga - gunga galunga. So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consiousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
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Message 637869 - Posted: 10 Sep 2007, 6:10:25 UTC

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

~Rita Rudner
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Message 637925 - Posted: 10 Sep 2007, 8:18:06 UTC

Uhh Huhh, Uhh Huhh. Elvis !
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Message 638263 - Posted: 10 Sep 2007, 19:19:48 UTC

"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand things with alloys and compositions and things with... molecular structures... and..."

~Ash, Army of Darkness.

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Message 638406 - Posted: 10 Sep 2007, 22:27:02 UTC
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You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.

~Ray Bradbury, advice to writers


A joke's a very serious thing.

~Charles Churchill, "The Ghost", 1762
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Message 638437 - Posted: 10 Sep 2007, 22:53:20 UTC

Bar scene from, "Good Will Hunting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymsHLkB8u3s


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Message 638636 - Posted: 11 Sep 2007, 3:47:47 UTC

"I'm Rick James, B**CH!"
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Message 638638 - Posted: 11 Sep 2007, 3:50:05 UTC
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:D

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"I'm not a crook!"

~Richard Nixon



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Message 638714 - Posted: 11 Sep 2007, 8:08:56 UTC

Some quotes from an email I got from my Dad. Made me grin a bit. A few well known, a few not so......


When Insults Had Class:

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



"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... followed by Churchill's response:



"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second, if there is one." -- Winston Churchill



"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." -- Stephen Bishop



"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." -- John Bright



"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." -- Irvin S. Cobb



"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." -- Samuel Johnson



"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." -- Paul Keating



"He had delusions of adequacy." -- Walter Kerr



"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" -- Mark Twain



"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." -- Mae West



"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." -- Oscar Wilde



Lady Astor once remarked to Winston Churchill at a Dinner Party, "Winston, if you were my husband, I would poison your coffee!" Winston replied, "Madam if I were your husband I would drink it!"
"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

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Message 638720 - Posted: 11 Sep 2007, 8:26:06 UTC
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LOLOLOLOLOL

Your Dad is great!!!
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Message 638722 - Posted: 11 Sep 2007, 8:28:17 UTC

That was an excellent example on when people knew how to really use the English
language and had a tremendous command of its' vocabulary...T'was an edifying
compilation of quotations.
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Message 638723 - Posted: 11 Sep 2007, 8:28:59 UTC - in response to Message 638720.  

LOLOLOLOLOL

Your Dad great!!!

Yeah, there's some gooduns in there. Thanx.
"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

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Message 638769 - Posted: 11 Sep 2007, 10:22:03 UTC

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." -- Stephen Bishop

Hehe. Yes, I liked these. Churchill had some fabulous quotes.
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Message 638977 - Posted: 11 Sep 2007, 21:43:37 UTC

"The inability of the Colonists to get power to issue their own money permanently out of the hands of George III and the international bankers was the PRIME reason for the revolutionary war."

~Benjamin Franklin
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Message 639275 - Posted: 12 Sep 2007, 6:14:21 UTC

OK.....
Here's another batch.

Original Hollywood Squares...

If you remember the original Hollywood Squares and its comics, these questions and answers are from the days when "Hollywood Squares" game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted, as they are now.



Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions.

Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.


Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver (aka Clifford Arquette ): Three days of steady drinking should do it.


Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.


Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A. Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.


Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?
A. Rose Marie: No; wait until morning.


Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.

Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say "I Love You"?
A. Vincent Price : No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.


Q. What are "Do It," "I Can Help," and "I Can't Get Enough"?
A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.

Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A. Rose Marie : You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.

Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.

Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.

Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.

Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics, what is the other?
A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures.

Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A. Rose Marie : Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.


Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen : Only after lights out.


Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde : Make him bark?

Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.

Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.




Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?
A. Paul Lynde : Mine may be abused, but it certainly isn't neglected.

Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.

Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?
A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?

Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver : I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him.

Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver : His feet.

Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh.



(Not a filthy word in the bunch)

Enjoy.
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Message 639277 - Posted: 12 Sep 2007, 6:17:29 UTC - in response to Message 639275.  

OK.....
Here's another batch.

Original Hollywood Squares...

If you remember the original Hollywood Squares and its comics, these questions and answers are from the days when "Hollywood Squares" game show responses were spontaneous, not scripted, as they are now.



Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions.

Q. Do female frogs croak?
A. Paul Lynde: If you hold their little heads under water long enough.


Q. If you're going to make a parachute jump, at least how high should you be?
A. Charley Weaver (aka Clifford Arquette ): Three days of steady drinking should do it.


Q. True or False, a pea can last as long as 5,000 years.
A. George Gobel: Boy, it sure seems that way sometimes.


Q. You've been having trouble going to sleep. Are you probably a man or a woman?
A. Don Knotts: That's what's been keeping me awake.


Q. According to Cosmopolitan, if you meet a stranger at a party and you think that he is attractive, is it okay to come out and ask him if he's married?
A. Rose Marie: No; wait until morning.


Q. Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?
A. Charley Weaver: My sense of decency.

Q. In Hawaiian, does it take more than three words to say "I Love You"?
A. Vincent Price : No, you can say it with a pineapple and a twenty.


Q. What are "Do It," "I Can Help," and "I Can't Get Enough"?
A. George Gobel: I don't know, but it's coming from the next apartment.

Q. As you grow older, do you tend to gesture more or less with your hands while talking?
A. Rose Marie : You ask me one more growing old question Peter, and I'll give you a gesture you'll never forget.

Q. Paul, why do Hell's Angels wear leather?
A. Paul Lynde: Because chiffon wrinkles too easily.

Q. Charley, you've just decided to grow strawberries. Are you going to get any during the first year?
A. Charley Weaver: Of course not, I'm too busy growing strawberries.

Q. In bowling, what's a perfect score?
A. Rose Marie: Ralph, the pin boy.

Q. It is considered in bad taste to discuss two subjects at nudist camps. One is politics, what is the other?
A. Paul Lynde: Tape measures.

Q. During a tornado, are you safer in the bedroom or in the closet?
A. Rose Marie : Unfortunately Peter, I'm always safe in the bedroom.


Q. Can boys join the Camp Fire Girls?
A. Marty Allen : Only after lights out.


Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde : Make him bark?

Q. If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?
A. Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.

Q. According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit of kissing a lot of people?
A. Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.




Q. It is the most abused and neglected part of your body, what is it?
A. Paul Lynde : Mine may be abused, but it certainly isn't neglected.

Q. Back in the old days, when Great Grandpa put horseradish on his head, what was he trying to do?
A. George Gobel: Get it in his mouth.

Q. Who stays pregnant for a longer period of time, your wife or your elephant?
A. Paul Lynde: Who told you about my elephant?

Q. When a couple have a baby, who is responsible for its sex?
A. Charley Weaver : I'll lend him the car, the rest is up to him.

Q. Jackie Gleason recently revealed that he firmly believes in them and has actually seen them on at least two occasions. What are they?
A. Charley Weaver : His feet.

Q. According to Ann Landers, what are two things you should never do in bed?
A. Paul Lynde: Point and laugh.



(Not a filthy word in the bunch)

Enjoy.


:D

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Message 639293 - Posted: 12 Sep 2007, 6:44:19 UTC
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On his tombstone:


I killed the bank.

~Andrew Jackson

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Message 639295 - Posted: 12 Sep 2007, 6:48:53 UTC

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