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You're asking for trouble getting me started on Monty Python Di ........ One Day Lad all this will be yours!! what the curtains? Stop that it's silly!! Some pearls there Brenda Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood. Mary Hirsch

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

A few Groucho Marx ones I like 'Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies' 'Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy' 'I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception' 'Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read'

If You Cant Get Rid Of The Skeleton In Your Closet, You'd best teach it to Dance George Bernard Shaw Im all in favour of keeping dangeous weapons out of the hands of buffoons, lets start with typewriters. Frank Lloyd Wright. Be Nice To people you meet on your way up, because you will also meet them on your way down Jimmy Durante. Forgive your enemies but never forget their names John F Kennedy. Davex

The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like a bacon and egg breakfast, The Chicken was 'involved' The Pig was 'commited'. Davex

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. George Bernard Shaw

I just came accross this one, i think it's brilliant.. and from personal experience i can identify with it... ...Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)

If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon. George Aiken Wonder if George was ever on these threads lol

The bigger the lie, the greater the acceptance, Adolf Hitler

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Ben Stein

Forgot my all time favourite, printed up in large font on my cube wall! 'If you don't have a sense of humour, you probably don't have any sense at all!' Brenda

'Silence gives consent' - Canon law 'If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking' - Gen. George Patten 'Whoever controls the media, controls the mind - Jim Morrison 'Fuddle duddle' - Piere Elliot Trudeau

Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. Tommy Cooper

Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation. Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. Edgar Watson Howe

Found this one very appropriate after trying for 40min ,unsuccessfuly, to create an album on the photo-page ... To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer. Farmers' Almanac, 1978

Glory is Fleeting/ obscurity is forever Napoleon Bonaparte Davexx

There are holes in the sky where the rain comes in, but the holes are small, thats why rain is thin. Spike Milligan If you have noticed this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing! ? Nick

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Rich Cook

After reading Dave's school thread here are a few pearls of wisdom on the subject of education Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942) Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology. Clive James I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant