Name that quote

[Marty_d]

It'd be very sad if he got that saying the wrong way around.

 

 

[Phil Perry]

I think he said don't trust a fart or waste an erection.

No, it wasn't Billy Connolly PM, it was Sir John Falstaff in the Shakespeare play 'Henry IV part One'. . . . close,. . . but no Bunnings hotdog. . . .

 

 

[old man emu]

"We'll all be rooned ..."

 

Said by whom to who, and in what ?

 

 

[hihosland]

'twas in an Irish accent most forlorn

 

but I can't recall in what

 

 

[old man emu]

Almost, but no cigar. The correct line is:

 

"In accents most forlorn"

 

 

[hihosland]

I do know the line OME just can't recall who wrote it

 

It's long enough to be from Lawson's pen but not him, I'm certain

 

another line

 

"It's looking crook" said Daniel Croke.

 

 

[nomadpete]

Are you sure Ian intended this forum to slide down into this morass of intellectuality????

 

 

[old man emu]

Are you sure Ian intended this forum to slide down into this morass of intellectuality????

Oh, Nomadpete. You're such a Palestine.

 

Hiho, you're on the right page, but Daniel didn't say it.

 

"It’s lookin’ crook," said Daniel Croke;

 

"Bedad, it’s cruke, me lad

 

For never since the banks went broke

 

Has seasons been so bad."

 

Begorrah, I've almost let the leprechaun slip.

 

OME

 

 

[Phil Perry]

"We'll all be rooned ..."Said by whom to who, and in what ?

Got me there OME. . .

 

A similar sounding one is 'We'rrrre all DOOOOOOOOMED. . .'

 

The late John Laurie - in 'Dad's Army' . . .

 

 

[Phil Perry]

Are you sure Ian intended this forum to slide down into this morass of intellectuality????

'morass of intellectuality???? '

 

 

What a Great line Pete . . .I'm nickin' that for my collection of eruditisms. . .!

 

 

[old man emu]

And the kewpie doll almost goes to red750. You still have not got the title correct.

 

Said Hanrahan - John O'Brien

 

)ME

 

 

[pmccarthy]

John O'Brien was a pen name, he was actually Father Hartigan, a priest in Narrandera. The names of the characters in the poem were all real local families, like the Cronks. I went to school with some of them. (Sorry, not funny, but perhaps interesting).

 

 

[hihosland]

Who, where, when

 

"I come here not as a polished politician"

 

 

[facthunter]

They say, you can polish a turd, but it's still a turd. ( A version of a "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet".

 

I just love. I now nothing about anything in this line of business so I will bring a fresh approach to running it. This makes a virtue of ignorance. A questionable process, if you apply logic at all. Nev

 

 

[Yenn]

We will all be rooned. Hanrahan.

 

 

[nomadpete]

Hanrahan was an optimist!

 

 

[bexrbetter]

Hanrahan was an optimist!

Is he any good, because I need some new glasses myself.

 

 

[David2ayo]

Is he any good, because I need some new glasses myself.

Making a spectacle of yourself again!

 

David

 

 

[David2ayo]

"So, whose got the family brain cell today?"

 

 

[Phil Perry]

"So, whose got the family brain cell today?"

Fewer and Fewer of us David,. . .if this American university study is to be believed. . . .!

 

 

 

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( Jaysus ! in 2110, who the heck is going to repair all the airliner and Jabiru engines and all the foodmaking equipment at Pizza Huts and Maccy D's ? ? WE ARE ALL DOOMED I TELL YOU. . .DOOMED ! ! ! )

 

According to MENSA tests,. . .My two Daughters scored 128 and 122 respectively, whilst at their respective Universities. . ( Eldest first [35 today - Youngest - 33 August just gone ] which PROVES conclusively that they were conceived whilst I was working away. . . .( I scored so low that I wasn't allowed to take any tests. . .I said 'WHY NOT ?. . .they said that if I had an IQ higher than 42, I would Know the answer to that. . . . Barstards. . .)

 

[facthunter]

Your Village is missing you. Nev

 

 

[Marty_d]

Fewer and Fewer of us David,. . .if this American university study is to be believed. . . .! 

 

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( Jaysus ! in 2110, who the heck is going to repair all the airliner and Jabiru engines and all the foodmaking equipment at Pizza Huts and Maccy D's ? ? WE ARE ALL DOOMED I TELL YOU. . .DOOMED ! ! ! )

 

According to MENSA tests,. . .My two Daughters scored 128 and 122 respectively, whilst at their respective Universities. . ( Eldest first [35 today - Youngest - 33 August just gone ] which PROVES conclusively that they were conceived whilst I was working away. . . .( I scored so low that I wasn't allowed to take any tests. . .I said 'WHY NOT ?. . .they said that if I had an IQ higher than 42, I would Know the answer to that. . . . Barstards. . .)

I think whoever did that graph is on the lower side of the spectrum, given there's no way on earth they can extrapolate something like average worldwide IQ more than a decade or so, much less 100 years.

 

 

[old man emu]

I think whoever did that graph is on the lower side of the spectrum, given there's no way on earth they can extrapolate something like average worldwide IQ more than a decade or so, much less 100 years.

You haven't factored in the late 20th Century factors of TV, monopoly-owned newspapers, visual media domination by the USA, Internet-based social media, abandonment of the 3-Rs in education by thepromotion of multiple minority causes ........

 

I'm surprised that the the graph's formula is in the First Degree (y = -mx + b).

 

 

[facthunter]

Education is NOT the same as intelligence. Intelligence is a capacity not an end condition. Knowledge is learned/acquired. Nev

 

 

[Marty_d]

Plus IQ is only one factor. Someone with high emotional intelligence but lower IQ may be far more suited to many jobs than another person with the reverse.