OneGuyFromBarlick

"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.

"Compared with the number of casualties due to parental love, the Black Death looks like a dose of flu'"

All my life I have been trying to use the door marked 'use the other door'.

"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)

"It is impossible to enjoy idleness thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Jerome K Jerome.

Cans of worms, when spilt, need bigger cans to repack them.

"You can be wrong by being right too soon." Iain MCleod commenting on an editorial in the Observer on Suez.....

"He is a self defecating person" (Michael Parkinson)

" 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)

In any communication, what you understand is more important than how something was sent. Paraphrased from Stafford Beers at Manchester Business school in 1984.

Definition of obsolescence: "If it works it's obsolete" (Stafford Beer)

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain.

Cathy wrote:I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. Mark Twain.

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.

hartley353 wrote: The saying those that can, do, those that can't teach.

Ha ha, but I think you have added a little to the actual quotation

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'

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

There are many claimants to the quotation but perhaps one of the strongest is George Bernard Shaw in 'Man and Superman'.

"Beware of any enterprise that demands new clothes" Thoreau (Walden)

"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.

Stanley wrote:"Beware of any enterprise that demands new clothes" Thoreau (Walden)

I do like that...

Beware anyone who starts their sentences with `Going forward...' and starts their replies with `Absolutely!'
Tizer, 8/8/2013

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'.

"What a waste of eggs" - Market trader during Ed's walkabout yesterday

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.

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?