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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #15 on: December 12, 2010, 12:47:40 PM »
Similarly ...

Sometimes you are the master of all you survey ... then the wife comes home!
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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #16 on: December 12, 2010, 10:06:38 PM »
This last one sounds as if it originated with our man in Devon ;D
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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #17 on: December 13, 2010, 12:28:10 PM »
Do crystal balls have a future?
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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #18 on: December 13, 2010, 02:16:13 PM »
This last one sounds as if it originated with our man in Devon ;D

Moi? ::)
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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #19 on: December 13, 2010, 02:16:50 PM »
Do crystal balls have a future?

Wondered where you were, good 'un. ;D
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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #20 on: December 13, 2010, 10:09:14 PM »
This last one sounds as if it originated with our man in Devon ;D

Moi? ::)
Yes, toi. ???
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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #21 on: December 15, 2010, 09:00:49 PM »
 ;D ;D ;D
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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #22 on: December 19, 2010, 02:15:34 PM »
I think it was Lesley Cox on this forum who delivered this one . .

"I've told you a million times not to exaggerate"

Thank you Lesley!

Merry Christmas everyone.

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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #23 on: December 19, 2010, 03:24:55 PM »

shampoo, better than the real thing
Yemen, what a country ... Haraz mountains, Socotra, Sana'a, Hadramaut, the empty quarter.... a country of stunning, mind altering beauty...and the friendliest of people.

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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #24 on: December 19, 2010, 04:05:03 PM »

shampoo, better than the real thing

That's the business, Frazer!   :D   Just the jobby!   :D
« Last Edit: December 19, 2010, 04:31:06 PM by ranunculus »
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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #25 on: December 19, 2010, 05:04:17 PM »
Did you know 71% of all statistics are used without appropriate references, and a further 11% are simply made up?
« Last Edit: December 19, 2010, 07:09:38 PM by FrazerHenderson »
Yemen, what a country ... Haraz mountains, Socotra, Sana'a, Hadramaut, the empty quarter.... a country of stunning, mind altering beauty...and the friendliest of people.

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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #26 on: December 19, 2010, 05:11:08 PM »
Did you know 71% of all statitistics are used without appropriate references, and a further 11% are simply made up?

Are these statistics part of that 11% ;D
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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #27 on: December 19, 2010, 06:29:36 PM »
"Just hand over the chocolate and no one will get hurt" - Maggi Young?

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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #28 on: December 19, 2010, 07:04:06 PM »
I think it was Lesley Cox on this forum who delivered this one . .

"I've told you a million times not to exaggerate"


Goodness, I don't remember that! :)

I came across this one the other day, from Picasso.
"The bad thing about being famous is, you have to work so hard at it."
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Re: Good "One Liners"
« Reply #29 on: December 19, 2010, 07:29:01 PM »
I like this, attributed to Dolly Parton:

"It costs a lot of money to look as cheap as this."
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