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Post by photax on May 30, 2010 2:33:06 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2010 8:53:11 GMT -5
Interesting. Shaw's version is closest to the one for which Churchill gets credit. It is very difficult to say anything that hasn't already been said. It certainly sounds like something Churchill (or Alfred Hitchcock) would have said.
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Post by PeterW on May 30, 2010 10:59:22 GMT -5
Mik,
Thank you for that link. I had not come across that website but I will return to it - more than once I fancy.
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Post by SidW on Jun 1, 2010 17:45:56 GMT -5
Interesting. Shaw's version is closest to the one for which Churchill gets credit. It is very difficult to say anything that hasn't already been said. It certainly sounds like something Churchill (or Alfred Hitchcock) would have said. Wayne Ah well, that's life. I wonder who'll get the credit for our drops of wisdom? |
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Post by daveh on Jun 2, 2010 5:43:07 GMT -5
Then there was Oscar Wilde's reply to something George Bernard Shaw said, "I wish I had said that" to which GBS replied "You will, Oscar, you will."
Except it wasn't GBS it was Whistler. I had remembered the quotations correctly, but not one of the participants.
Several tears ago a friend gave me a miscellany of programmes on a floppy disk. Among them was one under the name "Murphy's". This was a collection of humourous sayings put together by someone from Canada (I can't think of his name at present). My favourite was
"time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana".
The English language is the best medium out there (in all its spelling and meaning variations). Long may it live, and thanks for that link Photax.
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Post by mickeyobe on Jun 2, 2010 10:11:54 GMT -5
Several tears ago a friend gave me a miscellany of programmes on a floppy disk. Among them was one under the name "Murphy's". This was a collection of humourous sayings put together by someone from Canada (I can't think of his name at present). My favourite was "time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana". That was a quote plagiarized from aka Starbuckguy. The one with the Wagnerian hat. Mickey |
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Post by daveh on Jun 2, 2010 13:32:40 GMT -5
Ah, but from whom did he pinch it? ;D
I shall leave it up to you to decide if I mean the quotation or the hat.
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Post by GeneW on Jun 2, 2010 14:20:57 GMT -5
Several tears ago a friend gave me a miscellany of programmes on a floppy disk. Among them was one under the name "Murphy's". This was a collection of humourous sayings put together by someone from Canada (I can't think of his name at present). My favourite was "time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana". That was a quote plagiarized from aka Starbuckguy. The one with the Wagnerian hat. Mickey It's a quote by Groucho. Gene |
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Post by camerastoomany on Jun 4, 2010 10:14:19 GMT -5
From a cropdusting Huey to Groucho Marx in two pages!!!!!!!!   ;D |
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Post by daveh on Jun 4, 2010 10:55:37 GMT -5
Many things end up at Groucho Marx. As we are here, I would just like to mention Margaret Dumont - the greatest straightman in cinema history.
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Post by mickeyobe on Jun 4, 2010 13:33:11 GMT -5
I read somewhere that Margaret Dumont had no sense of humour at all. She thought every role she played was serious.
I don't know how true this is but it makes a good tale.
"Mini Biography
Margaret Dumont would probably consider it a tragedy that she is best-known for her performances as the ultimate straight woman in seven of the Marx Brothers' films (including most of their best). By all accounts she never understood their jokes (offscreen and on), which is of course a major reason why she's so funny. "
On the other hand there is this.
"Some have argued that her image of the refined lady who did not understand the Marx Brothers' humor was an artificial one since she had a long career being a comedic foil in comedy stage productions years before her more famous work."
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Post by daveh on Jun 4, 2010 15:04:57 GMT -5
Mickey,
I would like to believe she was just the consummate professional and was so good at making it seem as though she didn't understand the joke that people actually thought she didn't. To me she was the fifth (or should that be sixth, or even seventh?) Marx Brother.
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Post by olroy2044 on Jul 23, 2010 17:20:13 GMT -5
UPDATE: Finally figured out what was planted in the field across the creek from my house. It was planted with Marigolds being grown for seed. They are almost ready for harvest.  I will attempt to get a photo of the harvest in progress, if they don't do it while I'm at work. Roy |
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Post by daveh on Jul 23, 2010 19:12:12 GMT -5
Perhaps they should look at this video so they know what to do: |
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Post by olroy2044 on Sept 6, 2010 23:39:45 GMT -5
Today the harvest started. A large combine started through the field, mowing, threshing and loading the seed into hopper trucks. I apologize for the low resolution photo, but the only long lens I had was the 10X on my old Mavica. I forgot to thaw out more film!!!   Roy |
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