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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:10 am

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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Fri Dec 05, 2014 9:58 am

I think that one was from Satan herself.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Fri Dec 05, 2014 10:13 am

Yes it was.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Fri Dec 05, 2014 10:35 am

For those not from 'round these parts, that was Margaret "we English who are marvellous people are really very generous to Scotland" Thatcher.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Fri Dec 05, 2014 11:18 am

Indeed, you're up.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Fri Dec 05, 2014 11:26 am

I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby tubeswell » Fri Dec 05, 2014 4:18 pm

Sure ain't Bilbo Baggins
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Sat Dec 06, 2014 12:27 am

Sure ain't.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby tubeswell » Sat Dec 06, 2014 1:31 am

A character from a Marvel Comics filum?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Sat Dec 06, 2014 1:35 am

Nope, older than that, and not a quote from a film.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby tubeswell » Sat Dec 06, 2014 6:09 am

Harry Potter and the somethingy something then?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Sat Dec 06, 2014 9:41 am

These are non-fiction quotes.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Мастер » Sat Dec 06, 2014 3:30 pm

Lianachan wrote:These are non-fiction quotes.


So you don't think Harry Potter was real?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby MM_Dandy » Sat Dec 06, 2014 5:30 pm

Bertrand Russell, perhaps?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Sat Dec 06, 2014 7:14 pm

MM_Dandy wrote:Bertrand Russell, perhaps?

No, but same nationality and approximate time of living.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby tubeswell » Sat Dec 06, 2014 7:59 pm

I missed the whole point of the game. Sorry about that.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Arneb » Sat Dec 06, 2014 10:29 pm

Well, you can still solve this one :D :-D :grin:

I don't know, it sounds vaguely Oscar Wildeish, but I hesitate to put him forward, because the quote sounds a bit clumsy, and OW was certainly anything but clumsy. But still: Oscar Wilde?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Sat Dec 06, 2014 11:12 pm

Not Oscar Wilde. This person certainly wasn't clumsy, but did a good job of pretending to be.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby MM_Dandy » Mon Dec 15, 2014 2:46 am

Charlie Chaplin, I would say.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Lianachan » Mon Dec 15, 2014 9:33 am

I would say you are correct.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Heid the Ba » Mon Dec 15, 2014 11:06 am

I would say it was an excellent clue and answer.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby MM_Dandy » Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:48 pm

Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby tubeswell » Tue Dec 16, 2014 5:17 pm

Would appear to be a Winston Churchilly kind of quote.
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby Мастер » Tue Dec 16, 2014 5:36 pm

Thomas Paine?
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Re: Real Life Quotes

Postby MM_Dandy » Tue Dec 16, 2014 6:45 pm

More Painey than Churchilly, but not quite either.
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