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  1. #71
    Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
    Don't see why not Alto, the missus does.
    Not surprised sinkov when your idea of a good night out is a Friday night youth game, followed by a visit to the chippy that is already closed.

    Hey Big Spender..!

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Editor's Chair View Post
    Not surprised sinkov when your idea of a good night out is a Friday night youth game, followed by a visit to the chippy that is already closed.

    Hey Big Spender..!
    Be fair Tec, you must have read the follow-up post where I told you I took her to the Kettledrum first. Proper gent me !!

    And I'm making her tea tonight.

  3. #73
    Quote Originally Posted by sinkov View Post
    Be fair Tec, you must have read the follow-up post where I told you I took her to the Kettledrum first. Proper gent me !!

    And I'm making her tea tonight.
    You are all heart sinkov!

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    I'm not going to argue with you.

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    Not the same but ......

    The Quotes of Steven Wright:
    1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
    2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
    3 - Half the people you know are below average.
    4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
    5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
    6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
    7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
    8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
    9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
    10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
    11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ..... But she left me before we met.
    12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
    13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
    14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
    15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
    16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
    17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

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    FLACKERY noun (flak-uh-ree)

    noun

    (1) Publicity and promotion; press agentry.

    Quotes

    For the past 30 years, Stanley Kubrick has been the movies' most artful spin doctor pointedly shunning traditional Hollywood flackery, but always taking care that the whole world is clued in to his "legendary" integrity and perfectionism.
    -John Powers, "Moscow Should Believe in Tears," New York, January 24th, 1994.

    Origin:

    Flackery comes from flack, a word said to be derived from the name of a famous movie publicity agent, Gene Flack. Flack has been used in English since the 1930's.

  7. #77
    Like Daz Bentley you mean Alto?

    He's a proper flackerer!

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    I know he's the # 1 mouthpiece for BFC, but there is just something I don't like about him and I cannot put my finger on it.

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    MYRMIDON noun (mur-mi-don,-dn)

    noun

    (1) A person who executes without question or scruple a master's commands.

    (2) Classical Mythology. (initial capital letter) one of the warlike people of ancient Thessaly who accompanied Achilles to the Trojan War.

    Quotes:

    You order me to do that; you order me to do everything; but the time's past when I obeyed you like a Myrmidon.
    Booth Tarkington, Women 1925.

  10. #80
    Kakorrhaphiophobia Noun

    the fear of failure or defeat. We all suffer this one on here !!

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