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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:07 am

During and after.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:08 am

tubeswell wrote:Neville Chamberpot

Not him, though a good guess.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby tubeswell » Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:15 am

Lloyd George?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Sun Feb 01, 2015 8:51 pm

Wrong war.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:29 am

Charles de Gaulle? Pretty sure he couldn't stand Churchill. Quite right too.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:32 am

CdG it is. Never trust a man named after an airport.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Arneb » Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:33 am

Did he say that to Churchill?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:58 am

Next quote:

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Arneb » Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:18 pm

Richard Dawkins?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Mon Feb 02, 2015 1:51 pm

It's good, but it's not right.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby tubeswell » Mon Feb 02, 2015 3:26 pm

David Attenborough (attempting to explain how he has managed to survive)?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Mon Feb 02, 2015 3:33 pm

Arneb wrote:Did he say that to Churchill?

No, to the French press who claimed he was terminally ill. He didn't like the press, the press didn't like him much.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Mon Feb 02, 2015 4:12 pm

tubeswell wrote:David Attenborough (attempting to explain how he has managed to survive)?

Nope, but the person who said it has done well to survive.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Mon Feb 02, 2015 4:23 pm

Dawkins is a good answer so a scientist? One who has been lucky to survive.

Ste-ven Haw-k-ings?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Arneb » Mon Feb 02, 2015 5:03 pm

Incidentally, he is right. All hominid speciess except one are gone, and that one is doing everything, to kick the bucket, soon, and with a bang.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Feb 04, 2015 10:38 am

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Мастер » Wed Feb 04, 2015 11:04 am

Arneb wrote:All hominid speciess except one are gone, and that one is doing everything, to kick the bucket, soon, and with a bang.


Well, we'll see. Certainly there are quite a lot of them right now.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Arneb » Wed Feb 04, 2015 5:25 pm

The louder the bang.

The citation sounds vaguely Oscar Wilde-ish.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Wed Feb 04, 2015 5:47 pm

An American, from "whiskey". I recognise it actually, it's ringing a bell as being from a military 'merkin.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby MM_Dandy » Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:31 pm

I was thinking someone more Hollywood-type, myself. Katherine Hepburn, perhaps?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Wed Feb 04, 2015 6:56 pm

Lianachan is on the right track with a military 'merican.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lance » Thu Feb 05, 2015 12:31 am

Well, it wasn't Ulysses S. Grant.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby tubeswell » Thu Feb 05, 2015 12:38 am

Ike
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station.

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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Thu Feb 05, 2015 9:00 am

Lance wrote:Well, it wasn't Ulysses S. Grant.

The first parts would apply, but not the last. :D

Not Ike either.

More Grant than Ike.
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