I've always enjoyed this one....Nancy Astor to Winston Churchill

'Winston, if you were my husband I would put poison in your tea'

'Nancy, if you were my wife I would drink it'

Over to you...comic, dramatic, up to you!!

Go tell the Spartans,

Stranger passing by,

That here, obedient to their laws,

We lie.

Simonides.

Make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

Was that in reference to the true story of the 300 endure?

That story was incredible, the movie was cartoonish, but I suppose it had to be as the true story was astonishing.

Yes - there's a stone at Thermopylae with that engraved on it.

http://www.360cities.net/image/kolonos-hill-thermopylae-greece#-11.21,90.00,96.4

when in despair of the dissolution of a love that was sought endlessly:

'oh, if we could in each other satisfaction find

t'would be the bane of all suffering

and selfish jealousy bind.'

(tutsi's ending couplet to a one and only sonnet to a lost love..., ca 1971 (her name was Susie)...the structure could use some improvement but John Donne and Mr Will noticed... and after a review and over drinks in a pub in London, Donne jumped up and declared that he should have no more of carnality and entered the monkhood forthwith...)

Put your wallets away boys … thebleter is buying tonight … including the Top Shelf.

"Money isnt everything, but it sure keeps you in touch with your children" ... J. Paul Getty

Go tell the Spartans,

Stranger passing by,

That here, obedient to their laws,

We lie.

Simonides.

Make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

As mentioned 300's a bit cartoonish but how's this for class. Outnumbered, all who've gone before vanquished, certain death awaits but who gives a flying f#ck. Into the pit with you Persian!

Where I come from in the UK we're considered "country bumpkin" and backwards by other areas of the country.

The below quote is all the justification I need to be proud of my birthplace

'I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.'

by no lesser a man than Lord Horatio Nelson.

And this one really strikes home with me

'...this corner of England which once it holds your heart is more lovely than any place on earth. Beautiful with a hint of secrecy which haunts it, as the memory of a dark and tender sadness clouds the brilliance of a summer day.'

by Lilias Ryder Haggard.

Where I come from in the UK we're considered "country bumpkin" and backwards by other areas of the country.

The below quote is all the justification I need to be proud of my birthplace

'I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.'

by no lesser a man than Lord Horatio Nelson.

And this one really strikes home with me

'...this corner of England which once it holds your heart is more lovely than any place on earth. Beautiful with a hint of secrecy which haunts it, as the memory of a dark and tender sadness clouds the brilliance of a summer day.'

by Lilias Ryder Haggard.

I'll bet that they both were from Wisbech but didn't want anyone to know...with tall ships gliding upriver from the sea to the welcoming harbour...and here's tutsi minding his own business: 'who is that one armed man? he looks familiar...'

I'll bet that they both were from Wisbech but didn't want anyone to know..

Did you see any mention of caravans, strawberry picking, unlicensed motor vehicles, illegal dog fights , horse brasses or lucky heather in the above quotes?

I'll bet that they both were from Wisbech but didn't want anyone to know..

Did you see any mention of caravans, strawberry picking, unlicensed motor vehicles, illegal dog fights , horse brasses or lucky heather in the above quotes?

strawberries? before someone mentioned apple production but I never saw much of either around Wisbech...loads of sugar beets...and my neighbors at the caravan park were probably involved in the activities that you mention but I was away up the road in Sutton Bridge working on the power generation project and didn't have a clue...

PD James (who has Norfolk and the Fenlands as locales for many of her novels) should send in Commander Adam Dagliesh to investigate...

(PD James' 'Murder her heart'...synopsis: 'a simple engineer from Pasadena California finds himself entangled in a web of murder and intrigue in the Fenlands of England...Commander Adam Dagliesh arrives to investigate...')

Dagliesh at the local pub in Leverington: 'and where can I find Mr tutsiwarrior?...'...a patron: 'he's not here, sir...he said that his next stop was in Abu Dhabi...'

and the intrigue continues...

Tutsi mate have you been licking a toad's back again?

Tutsi mate have you been licking a toad's back again?

nah, the last time I dropped acid was about 30 years ago in Berkeley with 2 room mates, Tim and Betty who were both schizophrenics and were in attendance...they were unmedicated...and we recorded the session and then later my ex in the UK stole the cassette and threatened to give it to the police and social services as proof that I was an unstable abuser...she was a bitch and threatened to have me 'sectioned' once...and then afterwards wanted to have sex...

the availability of good drugs and a suitable ambiance are hard to come by these days...

Off topic - sorry!

Just for you Tutsi

http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/4kqie9/chappelle-s-show-tyrone-biggums-classroom-visit

Never eat yellow snow..............

Never eat yellow snow..............

Why on earth not?

Some you lose,

Some they win

SC

The One Armed Bandits, 1988 - 89

The Team with an Arm

"We'll smoke them out of their caves, to get them running so we can get them."

Pardon my French, but you're an asshol_e

from " Ferris Bueller's Day Off"

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Tutsi mate have you been licking a toad's back again?

nah, the last time I dropped acid was about 30 years ago in Berkeley with 2 room mates, Tim and Betty who were both schizophrenics and were in attendance..

So there were 4 of them then.

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."

Not the CEO of BP, btw.

Tutsi mate have you been licking a toad's back again?

nah, the last time I dropped acid was about 30 years ago in Berkeley with 2 room mates, Tim and Betty who were both schizophrenics and were in attendance..

So there were 4 of them then.

hey...yeah...the invisible component was lurking and then Tim who was a brilliant controls engineer until he flipped out (he went crazy when in his 40s) set up an elaborate recording arrangement and then his girl Betty screamed and yelled...I was on acid and at home and comfortable...the resulting recording was a masterpiece of situational artistry...and then the ex wife in England grabbed the cassette and yelled: 'he's mad! tutsiwarrior is mad! and not fit to live with normal folks!...'

she just didn't get the point...

Tutsi mate have you been licking a toad's back again?

nah, the last time I dropped acid was about 30 years ago in Berkeley with 2 room mates, Tim and Betty who were both schizophrenics and were in attendance..

So there were 4 of them then.

hey...yeah...the invisible component was lurking and then Tim who was a brilliant controls engineer until he flipped out (he went crazy when in his 40s) set up an elaborate recording arrangement and then his girl Betty screamed and yelled...I was on acid and at home and comfortable...the resulting recording was a masterpiece of situational artistry...and then the ex wife in England grabbed the cassette and yelled: 'he's mad! tutsiwarrior is mad! and not fit to live with normal folks!...'

she just didn't get the point...

Great art is worth suffering for

Absolutely not, how many suffering artists end up dead before they are appreciated?

Absolutely not, how many suffering artists end up dead before they are appreciated?

well...ol' Tim he died with too much vodka with the schitz medication and the doctors told him to lay off...he keeled over in a lowlife bar in North Oakand but it was deliberate and was his way to go out...he was in his late 40s...

Betty took over their condo and I never did see her again...she was crazy as hell too...

oh, 'ride around, ride a round real slow...' and they were some of my best friends...and crazyness always recognizes crazyness...

the ex in England cries in dismay: 'yer fcukin crazy...'... 'what? you just finding that out?...ye goddam booshwah POS!'

my present wife, being a buddhist simply takes things as they come...and we have a pleasant relationship...but as a falang I can get away with most things that thais can't...tutsi's 'sneaky business'...

So it goes

Kurt Vonnegut

Absolutely not, how many suffering artists end up dead before they are appreciated?

How many mediocre people end up dead and are never appreciated?

Straying from positive contreibution to futile bickering:

I think yours is not a very memorable or or useful quote or saying.

Perhaps you might care to phrase it in a more positive manner

"We should appreciate great artists before their suffering has ended"

Of course, we're not just talking about painters, it could be any kind of artist

"Azzafack, Cowboy; Ah'm niver appreciated. Ye shouldae heered the grief Ah got fir that calltaeprairs the aurnight"

"Well fair enough, Imam. Calling the faithful over your iPhone from Sid's Pub is stretching the tolerance of Islam a bit, I think"

"Naebdy appreciates piss-artists; we're a sufferin' lonely lot so we are... Nae wunner weall drink so much"

SC

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

Plato.