Is this funny

[nomadpete]

Nev, that raises curious observation......

 

According to any new girlfriend/wife, your ex girlfriend must have been an evil vixen. But her ex boyfriend will be held up as having wonderful attributes (but ex husbands are always evil).

 

[facthunter]

Never give advice to a couple going through problems. Whatever happens you are unlikely to come out of it well.  Nev

[nomadpete]

2 hours ago, facthunter said:

Never give advice to a couple going through problems. Whatever happens you are unlikely to come out of it well.  Nev

Yeah, would be like putting one's hand between twodogsfighting over a bone

[kgwilson]

This statement from whoever the WW speakers group are, is pure Scotty from marketing. Not a word of truth in any of it but he believes it himself emphatically. It will work with those who have been living under a rock for the last 20 years. 

[facthunter]

Three serious undignified FAILURES in a row? That's his qualification to be remembered without recalling his fascination with mistruths. Nev

[Marty_d]

On 22/10/2022 at 4:31 PM, facthunter said:

They begat in very suss ways back then if they had to. Marty, the wife's ex boyfriend  is often perfect (IF  she had only known what she knows now. That  he was going to make a lot of money and treat her in the manner she wanted to become accustomed to.). Nev

You should talk to my wife.  She often talks about how two of her ex's ended up in jail.  I think she's quite happy with me, that's what she tells me anyway...

 

[Marty_d]

On 22/10/2022 at 4:31 PM, facthunter said:

They begat in very suss ways back then if they had to. Marty, the wife's ex boyfriend  is often perfect (IF  she had only known what she knows now. That  he was going to make a lot of money and treat her in the manner she wanted to become accustomed to.). Nev

You should talk to my wife.  She often talks about how two of her ex's ended up in jail.  I think she considers me a better deal, by comparison.

 

[nomadpete]

You're showing your age when you start repeating yourself Marty.

[facthunter]

You are most fortunate for your situation.  Those guys helped you a lot. Nev

[nomadpete]

Marty, send the ex's a thank you card. It is a lot easier for you to look good against comparisons with such predecessors.

[nomadpete]

Back to topic....

I didn't believe the original post. So I googled WWSG. Amazed that they do exist. Stunned that a US talent mob can be so shallow as to bill SFM as a global leader!

 

 

[facthunter]

Straight from Goebbels. Make the most outrageous claim and keep saying it.  Nev

[rgmwa]

5 hours ago, Marty_d said:

You should talk to my wife.  She often talks about how two of her ex's ended up in jail.  I think she considers me a better deal, by comparison.

 

Sounds more like a warning to me.

[nomadpete]

Could be.

I always get up first in the morning and bring Mrs Nomad a cup of tea in bed. This serves two purposes....

1- it puts her in a good mood which might last all day.

2- I know what is in my tea.

[Jerry_Atrick]

I used toi do it.. But after 25 years with Jerry's partner, maybe I am waiting for someting to be put in my tea!

 

(except, I don't drink it)

 

(and, only joking, she doesn't read these threads)

[nomadpete]

1 hour ago, nomadpete said:

2- I know what is in my tea.

Just to clarify.....

I just don't want to be the last to find out that I said something that upset her.

[Old Koreelah]

1 hour ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

I used toi do it.. But after 25 years with Jerry's partner, maybe I am waiting for someting to be put in my tea!

 

(except, I don't drink it)

 

(and, only joking, she doesn't read these threads)

Reminds me of a heated debate in the Commons between Winston Churchill and Mary Astor. She was giving him a proper tongue lashing and ended her spray by saying that if she was his wife she’d put poison in his tea.

 

Churchill quickly replied that he was her husband he’d drink it!

[facthunter]

Another one.  Mr Churchill you're DRUNK. reply and MADAM you're ugly but tomorrow I will be sober.  Nev

[nomadpete]

It  is said that old Winnie borrowed that saying in 1941.

 

The Winston Churchill Society website says it went like this...

 

"

Bessie Braddock MP: “Winston, you are drunk, and what’s more you are disgustingly drunk.”

WSC: “Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow
I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly.”

Nowadays a remark like that would have ended his political career.

 

Origin:-

"In the 1934 movie 'It’s a Gift', W. C. Fields’s character, when told he is drunk, responds, “Yeah, and you’re crazy. But I’ll be sober tomorrow and you’ll be crazy the rest of your life.”

[facthunter]

The last para. in each case is superfluous. It's inferred and I love subtlety Nev

[onetrack]

The origins of the lines, "If I were your wife I'd poison your tea", and "If I were your husband, I'd drink it", are quite interesting. The repartee has been ascribed to many politicians, I've heard it ascribed to Robert Menzies at a political rally.

 

But the truth is always a little more involved, and researchers like the bloke below, are pretty good at digging up the origins of these legendary statements and sayings.

 

http://www.strangehistory.net/2018/03/20/if-i-were-your-husband-i-would-drink-it-history-of-a-joke/

[old man emu]

I think that the art of repartee is being killed off by digitisation. Repartee depends on more than just the words involved. It must take into account the aural and physical components of communucation. It also requires a broad vocabulary from which to select the words perfect for the occasion.

[nomadpete]

Cannot expect to hear good vocabulary from a generation brought up on SMS and one line memes.

 

And that gen probably think books are good to have around ....... You never know when you might need a doorstop.

[old man emu]

Who of us is scouring the second-hand book shops looking for the aviation text books from the pre-war period? There is a whole lot of knowledge waiting to be rediscovered.

[facthunter]

Books are still selling. I've bought about 5 in the last year and lend them out carefully.  Nev