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You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. Oscar Wilde.
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When one dies one is released from all cares and troubles and worries, one returns to the state one was in before one was born
Seneca/bp
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Death is release and the end of all misery and suffering, it returns one to the peace one was in before being born
Seneca/bp

First one from memory, second from my little book
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Slebs are puke on the windscreen of life
Wiglaf Droste

(Slebs: celebrities
used by Lance Dopestrong)
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Cyril Haearn wrote:All my life I have been ashamed of being an Austrian and have never been ashamed of being ashamed because I knew shame was the best form of patriotism
Karl Kraus [substitute your nationality]

Seems appropriate now, new elections are planned for August :?
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BrightonRock wrote:You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. Oscar Wilde.


Spurious. As pointed out here, Wilde died in 1900 and had no great opinion of cars.

The automobile was delightful, but, of course, it broke down - they, like all machines, are more wilful than animals - nervous, irritable, strange things: I am going to write an article on 'nerves in the inorganic world.'


"Fancy car" sounds more like a quotation from a 1920s/30s song, or even later.
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In the new language everyone spoke too fast
Eventually we caught up

Lisel Mueller *1924, she moved from Germany to the US in the 1930s
After catching up she took to writing very good poems. In English (American) :wink:
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I find fitting tyres so much easier when no-one's watching

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If you want to run with the wolves ..... you have to learn how to P*ss on the trot
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If you point a finger at someone, please to note that three fingers are pointing back at yourself
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, it is a habit.

Aristotle
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Was man ernst meint, sagt man am besten im Spass
Wilhelm Busch

If one has something serious to say, one should express it in a humorous way
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Might be worth bearing in mind when using these fora :wink:
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'Promises made, promises kept'

The PotUS plans to seek a second term but I think he has little chance, he is alone against 20+ democrats
How unfair is that? %)
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'It should look democratic, but we must have everything under control'
Walter Ulbricht 1945, East Berlin
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100%JR wrote:
Cyril Haearn wrote:There were a couple of successful films from GoC, Yorkshire, some years ago:
Sounding Brass and The Full Monty, the latter was especially succe$$ful financially, it cheered people up after the Princess of Hearts died

I think you mean "Brassed Off" with Pete Postlethwaite? About a Barnsley Colliery Brass band.Loosely based on the quite famous Grimethorpe Colliery Band.Not a bad film.(I accept it may have had a different title in Europe?)
I must be the only person in Sheffield who has not seen the Full Monty!On Holiday at Lake Garda in 2003 and the lady owner of the on-site shop asked me where in the UK I was from and when I said Sheffield she told me she'd been here for a few days to do the Full Monty Tour.....very strange as it was filmed in some less than desirable parts of the City :|


I was at the premiere. Only film I've seen where a lot of the audience stood and clapped and cheered at the end like a theatre crowd.
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Uwe-Karsten Heye was spokesman for the Schroeder regime in Germany from 1998

'I thought the job would be like a high-wire act without a safety net, but it was more like a high-wire act without the high-wire', he bleated

Perhaps he could help BoJo with publicity about his domestic disorder :?
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