Worthwhile Sayings:
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Topic: Worthwhile Sayings:
Posted By: verh
Subject: Worthwhile Sayings:
Date Posted: 13-June-2007 at 22:48
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Friendship Prayer: _____________________ May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the crotch of the person who screws up your day, and may their arms be too short to scratch..............Amen ------------- Verona |
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Posted By: freebird
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 01:44
got to remember that one Ver 
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Posted By: Caroloz
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 04:37
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Hahaha...good one Verh. I worked with a man for years whose entire conversation was delivered through cliches and words of wisdom. Some were brilliant...I quote them to this day and live by most of them.
And then some other great sayings from the wise
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Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 05:01
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My mother taught me RELIGION. "You better pray that that will come out of the carpet." My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL. "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!" My mother taught me LOGIC. " Because I said so, that's why." My mother taught me MORE LOGIC. "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me." My mother taught me FORESIGHT. "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident." My mother taught me IRONY. "Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about." My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS. "Shut your mouth and eat your supper." My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM. "Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!" My mother taught me about STAMINA. "You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone." My mother taught me about WEATHER. "This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it." My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY. "If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!" My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE. "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out." My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION. "Stop acting like your father!" My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION. "Just wait until we get home." My mother taught me about RECEIVING. "You are going to get it when you get home!" ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 09:00
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Abuse is the weapon of the coward ------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |
Posted By: Stoner
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 09:03
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" What goes round, comes round " ------------- Impotence; nature's way of saying no hard feelings! 
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Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 09:09
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"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf" George Orwell ------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 09:34
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" A little nonsence now and then, is relished by the wisest of men " ------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: Stoner
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 10:15
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Sir Winston Churchill ------------- Impotence; nature's way of saying no hard feelings!
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Posted By: Stoner
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 10:17
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A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. Author: Bernard Meltzer ------------- Impotence; nature's way of saying no hard feelings!
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Posted By: Esthalon
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 14:40
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My Favourite Saying (though Verh's is a close second)... "May the wind at your back never be your own." ------------- Smoke me a kipper I'll be back for Breakfast! |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 18:00
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Love all above - my fridge is going to be packed - please keep the coming. V ------------- Verona |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 18:05
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The Ingrediants of happiness is given to all But the mixing is left to Ourselves - - - V ------------- Verona |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 18:54
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CHANGE: There are only two ways to handle tense situations - You can change them or You can change the way you look at them There is Enlightenment to be had in changing the way we look at things. V ------------- Verona |
Posted By: Black Russian
Date Posted: 14-June-2007 at 23:03
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My Mam always says this to me when I am sick and out of work or when I am pissed off "Why worry about the Job it will be still there after you go" or "You're only a number in your job" and about Money "Spend it while you can cause you can't take it with you" P ------------- "Legal downloads is killing Piracy" http://www.flickr.com/groups/th |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 15-June-2007 at 00:47
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I like this one! When someone was speaking bad of someone else a friend said - ah sure you like nobody Ah he siad I do, I love all God's creatures but I just like some of them stuffed!!!! ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 15-June-2007 at 01:50
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One of my teachers used to say "The more you learn, the more you realise how little you know" ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: Caroloz
Date Posted: 15-June-2007 at 05:31
I particularly like that Ver |
verh wrote:Posted By: Caroloz
Date Posted: 15-June-2007 at 05:32
| Irish Mammy..she is SO right. When I knew nothing I thought I knew it all..now I know a few things - islands of knowledge in a vast sea of ignorance |
Posted By: Trixie
Date Posted: 15-June-2007 at 10:17
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"Eaten bread is soon forgotten"....an oldie but a goodie! |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 15-June-2007 at 13:05
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The basis of happiness is the love of something outside "self" Wm Jordan ------------- Verona |
Posted By: Esthalon
Date Posted: 15-June-2007 at 13:11
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Classics.... When a pen falls to the floor in School... "Leave it, it can't fall any further" "I'll put that smile on the other side of your face" My Mother in laws favourites (Which I seem to be adopting) "Where are you off to with no bell on yer bike" and to be used when your mind is made up regardless of other side of argument... "Well whether or which" (fast becoming a fav of mine ------------- Smoke me a kipper I'll be back for Breakfast! |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 15-June-2007 at 13:18
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V ------------- Verona |
Posted By: Trixie
Date Posted: 15-June-2007 at 16:07
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Actions speak louder than words. (I've used this one manys a time!) The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. You reap what you sow. No man is an island entire of itself. Its so cold it would freeze the balls off you! (sorry, that last one is a family saying we always used....only problem is when we said it outside of the "family circle" as kids we used to get the worst stares off people- they must've thought we were cheeky sods!) |
Posted By: Esthalon
Date Posted: 15-June-2007 at 16:32
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And how could I forget, My Mothers Favourite for the last month or so...thought I'd scream if I heard her say it one more time. "When the Apple is ripe, it will fall" (i.e. when the baby is ready it'll come). It did my head in!!!! ------------- Smoke me a kipper I'll be back for Breakfast! |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 15-June-2007 at 16:49
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Wait till the S... hits the fan V ------------- Verona |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 15-June-2007 at 19:46
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It aint over till the fat lady sings. ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 15-June-2007 at 23:31
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My Dad always said... 'Youth is wasted on the young...' ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: Rolo
Date Posted: 16-June-2007 at 00:16
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Me Granny's favourite............ God Bless you, in case you're a fairy.
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Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 17-June-2007 at 08:19
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"If there must be trouble let it be in my day so that my children will have peace" ------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |
Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 17-June-2007 at 08:19
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"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"  ------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |
Posted By: Stoner
Date Posted: 17-June-2007 at 10:09
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No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver ------------- Impotence; nature's way of saying no hard feelings!
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Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 18-June-2007 at 17:08
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Hope springs eternal V ------------- Verona |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 18-June-2007 at 17:11
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For every minute you are angry You loose 60 seconds of happiness Emerson, Ralph V ------------- Verona |
Posted By: Evangeline
Date Posted: 18-June-2007 at 19:22
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Why is the rum always gone? - Cap'n Jack Sparrow
Jen ;-> ------------- "Gentlemen! You can't fight in here, this is the War Room!" |
Posted By: Floyd
Date Posted: 18-June-2007 at 22:06
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'I never forget a face,but in your case I'll make an exception...' Groucho Marx...(not really words of wisdom,just something he once said) ------------- There are three kinds of people in the world,those who are able to count,and those who can't... |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 18-June-2007 at 22:35
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One of his other classics is "I'd never join a club that would have me as a member!" (nothing to do with this place of course! ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 19-June-2007 at 09:51
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"Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best" .........Woody Allen
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: Trixie
Date Posted: 19-June-2007 at 09:53
| "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind" - Gandhi |
Posted By: muller
Date Posted: 19-June-2007 at 10:43
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It's a small world but I wouldn't like to have to paint it. I am going green these days - I bought a decaffinated coffee table. I bought a corless cord. I put a skylight in my dining room. The people in the apartment upstairs are going crazy. - Steven Wright. ------------- Life is for living |
Posted By: whippersnapper
Date Posted: 19-June-2007 at 11:07
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"Be good and if you can't be good, be good at it" My da, seemingly anytime herself came to my folk's place for dinner. ------------- I'm searching for that cash I should have saved for the crash |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 19-June-2007 at 12:17
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And another version of above Be good and if you can't be good - be careful ! ------------- Verona |
Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 00:05
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"Fool me once shame on you,
fool me twice shame on me". ------------- There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in |
Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 00:09
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Once is an accident,
twice is coincidence, third time enemy action.(Al Capone) ------------- There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 02:43
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If you aren't part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
You remind me of myself when I was young and stupid. Oh I get it . like humor . but different. Trust me, I'm an actor...Ronald Reagan |
Posted By: Bluebell
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 09:37
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"To assume is to make an "ass" out of "u" and "me"
------------- You are what you wanna be....age doesn't matter |
Posted By: finno
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 11:16
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Neither a borrower, nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, Polonius to his son in "Hamlet" great speech. ------------- A man must have a code |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 12:50
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My mother used to tell me Enjoy yourself and don't drop your knickers!!! ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: grainne_witch
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 12:57
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A friend's mother used to say as we were heading out for the night Make sure you're in bed early - if not - come straight home! |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 15:29
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A real Grannys advice Cut your cloth according to your measure............ V ------------- Verona |
Posted By: Trixie
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 16:09
I'm as happy as a pig in sh*t! 
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Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 16:18
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Dublin describing someone from the country: No Flies on him / her.............. A cute whore...................... They would not piss on it if it was on fire............. V ------------- Verona |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 20:51
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As useful as an ashtray on a motorbike... or, slightly less complimentary, As useful as a fart in a spacesuit. ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 22:55
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"A woman is an occasional pleasure
but a cigar is always a good smoke"(Groucho Marx) ------------- There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 23:41
  luv the last 2------------- Verona |
Posted By: WACKER
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 23:56
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YOU MAY AS WELL BE HUNG FOR A SHEEP THAN A LAMB. ------------- If all big men were as narky as little men,there would be no little men. ( fact ) http://www.wdaphotography.net - http://www.wdaphotography.net |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 20-June-2007 at 23:57
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Description of a Mean Devil: Short arms - long pockets V ------------- Verona |
Posted By: WACKER
Date Posted: 21-June-2007 at 00:03
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nail me hands to the counter kinsella (private joke ) ------------- If all big men were as narky as little men,there would be no little men. ( fact ) http://www.wdaphotography.net - http://www.wdaphotography.net |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 21-June-2007 at 01:30
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"We cannot solve the problems that we have created with the same thinking that created them" Albert Einstein ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 21-June-2007 at 03:00
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"The food was lousy and the portions were too small" -Woody Allen
Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray, Remember that the next time you are lonely. He's so stingy...He has rubberlined pockets so he can steal soup ...if he owned Switzerland he wouldn't give you a slide ...he can peel an orange in his pocket |
Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 21-June-2007 at 11:49
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About a miserly person. "Short arms, long pockets" ------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |
Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 21-June-2007 at 11:50
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My mothers favourite saying when you left her house. "If I don't see you during the week I'll see you throught the window". ------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |
Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 21-June-2007 at 11:51
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Another one of my mothers whilst playing cards and you send out a poor card. "Never send a boy on a man's errand" ------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |
Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 21-June-2007 at 11:52
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Love Story. "Love is never having to say sorry" ------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 21-June-2007 at 21:21
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One joy dispels a hundred cares Confucius ------------- Verona |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 22-June-2007 at 00:10
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THE BEGINNING IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE TASK PLATO v ------------- Verona |
Posted By: irish_mammy
Date Posted: 22-June-2007 at 03:54
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If you find a job you like you won't work a day in your life ------------- Lesley 25th June - 25th July. Get organising my nights out. Child can stay in the car. Grove 1980-1984 |
Posted By: muller
Date Posted: 22-June-2007 at 08:46
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the longest journey always has to start with the first step (Mao) tip to stop smoking - give up the first one each day (easier said than done) never procrastinate - ref. to Hamlet ------------- Life is for living |
Posted By: Stoner
Date Posted: 22-June-2007 at 10:14
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one I live by
'What goes round, comes round' ------------- Impotence; nature's way of saying no hard feelings!
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Posted By: chi chi
Date Posted: 22-June-2007 at 12:36
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The salvation of man is through love and in love (viktor frankl) Donal- that one of yours def had a Justin Timberlake feel to it- u must be a fan !! |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 22-June-2007 at 14:38
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Donal, That is what I live by - so love that saying and it is SO TRUE V ------------- Verona |
Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 22-June-2007 at 21:44
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"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day
teach a man to fish and feed him for life" ------------- There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in |
Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 22-June-2007 at 21:46
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A friend in need is a ****** ** ****pest ------------- There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in |
Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 23-June-2007 at 15:37
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Flowing water never goes bad ------------- There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in |
Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 24-June-2007 at 00:22
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Every man has his price
and every woman her figure. ------------- There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in |
Posted By: WACKER
Date Posted: 24-June-2007 at 21:14
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Im goin around like a dog with two mickeys. (i dont know what to do with myself ) ------------- If all big men were as narky as little men,there would be no little men. ( fact ) http://www.wdaphotography.net - http://www.wdaphotography.net |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 25-June-2007 at 01:49
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I need to pee so badly that half of everything I see is yellow.
If god had wanted us to be vegetarians why did he make animals out of meat? He is madder than mad jack mcmad- the winner of last years mister madman competition' Thick as hobby horse sh*te I'd crawl a million miles across broken glass to kiss the exhaust of the van that took her dirty knickers to the laundry. "I'm as sick as a plane to Lourdes !" i'm so hungry i'd eat a farmers arse through a rope chair Jeysus - ya wouldn't ride her into battle he is a elitirit |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 25-June-2007 at 02:07
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He is so dumb he tried to do a partial differential equation using a Carnaugh
map instead of the Quinn Mc Clusky minimization technique
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Posted By: Caroloz
Date Posted: 25-June-2007 at 07:44
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Love that! DUH ;) |
Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 25-June-2007 at 21:55
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Pessimist: One who has the choice
of two evils,chooses both.(Oscar Wilde) ------------- There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in |
Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 25-June-2007 at 22:00
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I intend to live forever,
or die trying.(Groucho Marx) ------------- There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in |
Posted By: WACKER
Date Posted: 25-June-2007 at 22:52
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IF THAT RAIN KEEPS UP IT,LL NEVER COME DOWN. IF THIS DOESENT STOP IT,LL HAVE TO GO ON. ------------- If all big men were as narky as little men,there would be no little men. ( fact ) http://www.wdaphotography.net - http://www.wdaphotography.net |
Posted By: muller
Date Posted: 26-June-2007 at 12:20
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where there's a will, there's relatives ------------- Life is for living |
Posted By: Aries
Date Posted: 26-June-2007 at 13:44
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To give is better than to receive.
Oh I learnt that in Mountjoy !!!! ------------- THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE BUT IT'LL PISS YOU OFF FIRST |
Posted By: Aries
Date Posted: 26-June-2007 at 13:50
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A red sky at night shepherds delight
or else the whooores have burnt down me factory again !!!! ------------- THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE BUT IT'LL PISS YOU OFF FIRST |
Posted By: eejit91
Date Posted: 26-June-2007 at 19:10
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Beauty is only skin deep and I was born inside out!!!! ------------- "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better." |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 26-June-2007 at 19:52
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Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be Abraham Lincoln ------------- Verona |
Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 26-June-2007 at 21:13
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Those that can.... do,
those that can`t........teach. ------------- There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in |
Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 26-June-2007 at 21:43
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A Cynic:
Someone who knows the price of everthing and the value of nothing. ------------- There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in |
Posted By: Blondie
Date Posted: 26-June-2007 at 21:46
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Lovin this one T !!! ------------- Blondie I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it ! |
Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 26-June-2007 at 22:01
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Lifes greatest gift "Acceptance" V ------------- Verona |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 27-June-2007 at 02:47
and those that can't teach... teach gym |
Posted By: Pogue Mahoney
Date Posted: 27-June-2007 at 03:02
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Smack your child every day. If you don't know why - he does.
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. He's as thick as two short planks - and thats dissing the planks - Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink. WC Fields Time Flies like an arrow. Fruit Flies like a banana Errors have been made. Others will be blamed. |
Posted By: Stoner
Date Posted: 27-June-2007 at 06:49
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If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either. ------------- Impotence; nature's way of saying no hard feelings!
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Posted By: Stoner
Date Posted: 27-June-2007 at 06:49
------------- Impotence; nature's way of saying no hard feelings!
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Posted By: Biker Pat
Date Posted: 27-June-2007 at 20:12
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Football isn't a religion, it's more than that. Bill Shankly ------------- May be going to hell in a bucket but at least I'm enjoying the ride. Biker Pat Grove 1972-1975 |
Posted By: Vinyl Junkie
Date Posted: 27-June-2007 at 20:56
I love that. Funny 'cause its true!! ------------- TPFKAB (The Poster Formerly Known As Brunswick). |
Posted By: Stoner
Date Posted: 28-June-2007 at 00:19
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A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. – Herm Albright
------------- Impotence; nature's way of saying no hard feelings!
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Posted By: verh
Date Posted: 28-June-2007 at 20:44
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There is only one way to happiness: That is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. Epictrtus. V ------------- Verona |
Posted By: monarch
Date Posted: 28-June-2007 at 23:09
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"Ah,the patter of little feet around the house.
There`s nothing like having a midget for a butler". (W.C.Fields) ------------- There is a crack in everything ...... that's how the light gets in |