THAT'S A GOOD LINE!
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"I've been whispering sweet nothings on the phone to Gavin. Sweet because I love him and nothing because he's not here!" The man's wife.
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Compared with the number of casualties due to parental love, the Black Death looks like a dose of flu'"
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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All my life I have been trying to use the door marked 'use the other door'.
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"I am a reasonable man. Nothing is going as it should. Somewhere out there somebody is being unreasonable. I shall seek him out and kill! (Gavin Bone, an industry executive, in 1986)
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"It is impossible to enjoy idleness thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Jerome K Jerome.
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Cans of worms, when spilt, need bigger cans to repack them.
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"You can be wrong by being right too soon." Iain MCleod commenting on an editorial in the Observer on Suez.....
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"He is a self defecating person" (Michael Parkinson)
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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" Formerly Diphtheria was more a rural than an urban disease but of late years it has been more prevalent in towns. This change is undoubtedly an indirect result of compulsory education" (19th C medical dictionary)
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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In any communication, what you understand is more important than how something was sent. Paraphrased from Stafford Beers at Manchester Business school in 1984.
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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Definition of obsolescence: "If it works it's obsolete" (Stafford Beer)
Stanley Challenger Graham
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain.
I know I'm in my own little world, but it's OK... they know me here.
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He was a very perceptive man, We had two teachers on our pub quiz team, and never won any thing, over time their places were taken by a welder and a carpenter soon we were winning regularly. The saying those that can, do, those that can't teach.Cathy wrote:I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain.
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Ha ha, but I think you have added a little to the actual quotationhartley353 wrote: The saying those that can, do, those that can't teach.
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Sign on the wall at the Army School of Education -
Those that can, do
Those that can't, teach
Those that can't teach, teach teaching
Those that can't teach teaching, do 'educational research'
Those that can, do
Those that can't, teach
Those that can't teach, teach teaching
Those that can't teach teaching, do 'educational research'
Born to be mild
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My non-working days are Monday - Sunday
Sapere Aude
Ego Lego
Preferred pronouns - Thou, Thee, Thy, Thine
My non-working days are Monday - Sunday
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Apologies to Hartley. Thanks, Tripps. I wasn't in the army and wasn't aware of the full quote. I just remember the advertising slogan for recruiting teachers. I
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There are many claimants to the quotation but perhaps one of the strongest is George Bernard Shaw in 'Man and Superman'.
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of any enterprise that demands new clothes" Thoreau (Walden)
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"They keep stable the fabric of the world and their prayer is in the practice of their trade"
Ecclesiastes. Speaking of manual trades and craftsmen.
Ecclesiastes. Speaking of manual trades and craftsmen.
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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I do like that...Stanley wrote:"Beware of any enterprise that demands new clothes" Thoreau (Walden)
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Beware anyone who starts their sentences with `Going forward...' and starts their replies with `Absolutely!'
Tizer, 8/8/2013
Tizer, 8/8/2013
Nullius in verba: On the word of no one (Motto of the Royal Society)
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There was a good TV series about ten years ago, I have forgotten the name of it and the main character but he had a sidekick called 'Stick' and one evening while he was eating a rare steak Stick commented that 'A good vet could get it on its feet again'.
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"Beware of certitude" (Jimmy Reid)
The floggings will continue until morale improves!
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"What a waste of eggs" - Market trader during Ed's walkabout yesterday
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A question from Liz about someone I knew when I was tiny reminded me of the following...
A family friend and neighbour across the fields, Ken Dewhurst, passed away last year. Ken and my dad were good friends, Ken liked poultry and kept a few birds on an allotment next to his house. Dad kept a few thousand; many of them in the hen pens next to Ken's house. More recently, after the hens had gone, Ken had a goat tethered in the pen next to his gable end. My two youngest loved to talk to the goat and feed it grass from the track if its tether allowed.
I used to play with a couple of Ken's children as a kid. Caroline was the oldest (a little younger than me), then Gary and Diane.
Gary emigrated to Australia and I think one sister lives in the north east, the other somewhere south of Barlick. Either Caroline or Diane are taking on their dad's house.
Sometime Novemberish I was queuing at the Yorkshire Bank when I noticed the chap next in line examining me closely. I'm generally pretty good with faces, but lousy with names. Lots of folk approach me knowing who I am, but I've got to scrape round for clues to work out who I'm talking to...
Anyhow, I'm scratching my brain trying to work out who the chap in the bank is, as his face doesn't ring a bell, when he asks "It's David isn't it? David Whipp? Gary Dewhurst, we haven't seen each other for 40 years!"
Through the sad circumstances of his dad's death we'd bumped into each other after so many years. We had a good chat in the queue, but I was slightly puzzled about how he'd recognised me after all that time.
"I thought you were your dad," said Gary.
A family friend and neighbour across the fields, Ken Dewhurst, passed away last year. Ken and my dad were good friends, Ken liked poultry and kept a few birds on an allotment next to his house. Dad kept a few thousand; many of them in the hen pens next to Ken's house. More recently, after the hens had gone, Ken had a goat tethered in the pen next to his gable end. My two youngest loved to talk to the goat and feed it grass from the track if its tether allowed.
I used to play with a couple of Ken's children as a kid. Caroline was the oldest (a little younger than me), then Gary and Diane.
Gary emigrated to Australia and I think one sister lives in the north east, the other somewhere south of Barlick. Either Caroline or Diane are taking on their dad's house.
Sometime Novemberish I was queuing at the Yorkshire Bank when I noticed the chap next in line examining me closely. I'm generally pretty good with faces, but lousy with names. Lots of folk approach me knowing who I am, but I've got to scrape round for clues to work out who I'm talking to...
Anyhow, I'm scratching my brain trying to work out who the chap in the bank is, as his face doesn't ring a bell, when he asks "It's David isn't it? David Whipp? Gary Dewhurst, we haven't seen each other for 40 years!"
Through the sad circumstances of his dad's death we'd bumped into each other after so many years. We had a good chat in the queue, but I was slightly puzzled about how he'd recognised me after all that time.
"I thought you were your dad," said Gary.
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My sister Judy went to school with Caroline and has been trying to locate her. Thanks to David she has.
Isn't it scary when you turn into your parents?
Isn't it scary when you turn into your parents?
Liz