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"Never kick a cow turd on a hot day" ....Harry S. Truman
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Brigham Young wrote:Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.
Everyone's ghast should get a good flabbering now and then.
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"I've killed better men than you." A colleague of mine (and an ex-para and para-instructor in WW2) to the most obnoxious and bullying (more) senior Civil Servant with whom I ever had the displeasure of working. He to whom it was addressed hid in his room from about 9 a.m. until after we'd all gone home. With luck he wet himself.
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Pastychomper wrote:
Brigham Young wrote:Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.


It's not higher up I worry about these days.
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It works in practice, but will it work in theory?
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What is theory?
When it should work, but never does

What is practice?
When it works, but no-one knows why
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A problem shared is a problem doubled
or
A problem shared is a problem halved

Which is correct?
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Tangled Metal wrote:Mine is the death and taxes quote. I won't type it out as I'll end up not getting the quote exactly right. No idea why I like it but I do.

Three things are certain in life:
Death, taxes and.....
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Malvern water, said Doctor Wall, is famed for curing..
Nothing at all
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Cyril Haearn wrote:BTW, I think taxes come before death


No they [expletive] don't. Before he died, my Inlaw Paw made the same erroneous claim on his tax return three years running. The rectification thereof is on our docket.
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A Hunter was looking for the tracks of a Lion. He encountered a Native who offered to take him straight to the Lion

'Oh no', bleated the Hunter fearfully, 'I am only looking for his tracks, I do not want to encounter him!'

after Aesops Fables
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"He who is born to be hanged will never be drowned"
I think of this whenever I read about Boris Johnson.
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The UK will respond "robustly" to any evidence of Russian involvement in the collapse of former spy Sergei Skripal, Boris Johnson has said.


Vlad must be quaking in his boots (or is that noise his sides splitting with mirth?)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-43303651

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Former Russian spies may wish to reconsider living in the UK....
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