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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 633.3 | this one was a bit longer | MARVIN::MACHIN | | Fri Mar 03 1989 14:07 | 15 |
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| 633.4 | Hooked? | DOOZER::VTX | | Fri Mar 03 1989 14:09 | 9 |
| John Tower : "Mine's a Perrier!"
Ayatollah Khomeini : "That Rushdie book sure is funny!"
Noah : "Looks like being a long, dry summer."
Ghengis Khan : "Sorry, guys, I'd rather stay home and finish my
knitting."
Greta Garbo : "OK, everybody back to my place!"
Get the idea?
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| 633.6 | TRIVIA, maybe? | IJSAPL::ELSENAAR | Fractal of the universe | Fri Mar 03 1989 18:52 | 9 |
| RE -1 and -2
I *think* I got the idea:
jc: "This is just the right topic for JOYOFLEX!"
Right? :-)
Arie
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| 633.7 | General George Custer | TOPDOC::SLOANE | A kinder, more gentle computer ... | Fri Mar 03 1989 21:01 | 5 |
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"They were having such a good time at the dance last night!"
-bs
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| 633.8 | "It looks fine, Dear, lets take the convertible"- Jackie Kennedy | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | 1:25000 - a magic number | Mon Mar 06 1989 06:39 | 1 |
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| 633.9 | If we're doing Kennedisms | PSTJTT::TABER | The call of the mild | Mon Mar 06 1989 16:42 | 1 |
| "Let's take a cab." -- Teddy Kennedy.
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| 633.10 | very gallant | MARVIN::KNOWLES | the teddy-bears have their nit-pick | Mon Mar 06 1989 17:14 | 1 |
| `I'm just nipping out for a pee.' - Capt. Oates
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| 633.11 | | MARVIN::MACHIN | | Mon Mar 06 1989 18:24 | 1 |
| 'Sorry about the egg business.' - E. Currie
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| 633.12 | Ah that reminds me! | WELMTS::HILL | | Mon Mar 06 1989 18:48 | 9 |
| Re .10
Capt Oates "I'm just going outside, I may be some time, you know
how busy the shops are Saturday."
(with apologies to BBC Radio 4)
Nick
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| 633.13 | | PSTJTT::TABER | The call of the mild | Mon Mar 06 1989 23:12 | 1 |
| "That Rushdie cracks me up...what a scamp!" -- R. Kohmenie
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| 633.14 | Ol' blabber mouth | CAM::MAZUR | Thank you, thank you, Sam I am | Tue Mar 07 1989 00:36 | 1 |
| "Hi" - Marcel Marceau
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| 633.15 | "We wet ourselves laughing" - Queen Victoria | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | 1:25000 - a magic number | Tue Mar 07 1989 02:11 | 1 |
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| 633.16 | "The train arriving platform4 is on time" Brit Rail announcement | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | 1:25000 - a magic number | Tue Mar 07 1989 02:12 | 1 |
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| 633.17 | | EAGLE1::EGGERS | Tom, VAX & MIPS architecture | Tue Mar 07 1989 04:08 | 1 |
| "I'll do it your way." Frank Sinatra
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| 633.18 | | SSDEVO::GOLDSTEIN | | Tue Mar 07 1989 04:25 | 3 |
| "Whales, shmales - set course for Club Med, Mr Starbuck."
-- Captain Ahab
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| 633.19 | | MARVIN::MACHIN | | Tue Mar 07 1989 13:35 | 2 |
| "Apart from that, how was the voyage?" - wedding guest to Ancyent
Mariner.
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| 633.20 | | BIS::MACFADYEN | Requiring only money and taste | Tue Mar 07 1989 15:33 | 7 |
| The Ayatollah (again), "A thumping good read!".
(Courtesy of the Guardian, which is running a few things-they-never-said
every day in its diary column just now.)
Rod
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| 633.21 | | PSTJTT::TABER | The call of the mild | Tue Mar 07 1989 17:12 | 1 |
| "Shit happens." -- Descartes
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| 633.22 | | KAOFS::S_BROOK | Here today and here again tomorrow | Tue Mar 07 1989 19:52 | 3 |
| "This is another fine mess you've rescued us from" Oliver Hardy
"Get off my case!" Stan Laurel
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| 633.23 | 2 more | MARVIN::MACHIN | | Tue Mar 07 1989 20:21 | 3 |
| "A pint of Guiness and a pickled egg, please." -- The Queen.
"Who's f*rted?" -- the Pope.
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| 633.24 | | SEEK::HUGHES | Thus thru Windows call on us(Donne) | Tue Mar 07 1989 21:44 | 9 |
| Re < Note 633.19 by MARVIN::MACHIN >
> "Apart from that, how was the voyage?" - wedding guest to Ancyent
> Mariner.
... and for those who do not know the original version:
"Apart from that, how did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?"
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| 633.25 | Washington is full of stuff... | MISFIT::GEMMEL | and now here's Mac and Tosh... | Wed Mar 08 1989 01:11 | 7 |
| "ah, I remember it well" - Ronald "Technicolor memory" Reagan
"No new ducks" - George "Macho Man" Bush
"I never drink and drive" - Ted "ride the edge" Kennedy
"I just *love* your dress" - Nancy "Dragon woman" Reagan
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| 633.26 | re .24 | POOL::TRUMPLER | Mona, you're a brick | Wed Mar 08 1989 01:46 | 1 |
| "I thought the play was *wonderful*." -- Mrs. Lincoln
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| 633.27 | ex | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | 1:25000 - a magic number | Wed Mar 08 1989 02:09 | 1 |
| "Iceberg ahead" --- lookout on the Titanic.
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| 633.28 | | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | 1:25000 - a magic number | Wed Mar 08 1989 02:13 | 3 |
| "I think there's something wrong with my cassette player" - Richard
Nixon
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| 633.29 | RMN | EAGLE1::EGGERS | Tom, VAX & MIPS architecture | Wed Mar 08 1989 07:36 | 3 |
| "We could do that, but it would be wrong." - Richard Nixon
"I am not a crook." - guess who?
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| 633.30 | More Titanic quotes. | SKIVT::ROGERS | But Otto, what about our relationship? | Wed Mar 08 1989 18:12 | 6 |
| re .27
"Nothing to worry about folks, we're just stopping off for a little ice."
-the captain of the RMS Titanic-
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| 633.31 | OK.... I give in.... | IJSAPL::ELSENAAR | Fractal of the universe | Wed Mar 08 1989 18:52 | 12 |
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"I forgot my dice!" - Julius Caesar
"Don't ask me why I am" - Descartes
"I still haven't found it" - Archimedes
"Ich bin ein Amerikaner" - John Kennedy
"Wow! I feel happy!" - Marvin
Arie
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| 633.32 | | MARVIN::MACHIN | | Wed Mar 08 1989 20:29 | 6 |
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"What is your full name, DR. Presume?" -- Stanley
"How many of them things d'you say you ate, Caesar?" -- Brutus
Richard.
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| 633.33 | You need the right kind of Porky Pig stutter to make this work... | PSTJTT::TABER | The call of the mild | Wed Mar 08 1989 22:04 | 1 |
| "did-ah-did-ah-did-ah did, ah, someone call me?" -- Samuel Morse
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| 633.34 | OK from KO | COOKIE::DEVINE | Bob Devine, CXN | Wed Mar 08 1989 23:31 | 1 |
| "Ahhh OK, AT&T can buy DEC", Ken Olson.
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| 633.35 | Disqualified? | DRUMS::FEHSKENS | | Thu Mar 09 1989 01:08 | 6 |
| re .27 - I believe the iceberg that sank the Titanic actually was
seen by the lookout, just a little too late to do anything about
it. So someone might actually have said just that...
len.
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| 633.36 | | ACUTE::MCKINLEY | | Thu Mar 09 1989 01:34 | 1 |
| "Honest, I just bought it for the pictures!" Wade Boggs
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| 633.37 | | SSDEVO::GOLDSTEIN | | Thu Mar 09 1989 01:37 | 11 |
| "Wow, what a game - Kareem just kept feeding me the ball and I just
kept sky-hooking."
-- Toulouse-Lautrec
"Sorry, I don't do ceilings."
-- Michelangelo
Bernie
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| 633.38 | Ice? two lumps and two fingers in a tumbler please | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | 1:25000 - a magic number | Thu Mar 09 1989 06:21 | 25 |
| G'day
re the Titanic... Yerst I think the lookout _did_ see the iceberg
but he sat there like a stunned mullet, frozen to the spot ;-)
"Wouldn't a coat of Eau de Nil or Duck egg blue do" Michelangelo
"Stop Smiling Mona" L de V
"Kiss me, Hardy - but don't let it get back to the Admiralty" Admiral Nelson
A
"Shall I put the B to the left or the right of it?" Nog the
cave man
"It gets colder as you go upwards, so no problem.." Icarus
djw
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| 633.39 | Speak Up..... | INCH::PREECE | Just a shallow hole, Moriarty. | Thu Mar 09 1989 12:38 | 11 |
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RE: .14
Actually, M.Marceau *did* speak on film. In "Silent Movie", he
is the only person in the whole film to say anything at all.
He says "Non".
:-)
Ian
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| 633.40 | Bye bye blue eyes... | DOOZER::VTX | | Thu Mar 09 1989 19:13 | 23 |
| "It was quintessential pugilism. Despite the most dire prophecies
of the host of Cassandras seemingly convinced that my domestic and
business exigencies had created insurmountable problems, I was happy
to have my own supreme confidence vindicated. Indeed, my ineluctable
triumph was of such quality as to raise sport to the status of art
and the humble artisan to the status of artist" - Mike Tyson
"No thank you" - Eve
"It was him!" - George Washington
"What a shame. Just four inches higher..." - William Tell
"Goodbye forever!" - Frank Sinatra
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| 633.41 | that's cricket | MARVIN::MACHIN | | Thu Mar 09 1989 20:54 | 1 |
| "Dunno what you're on about, 'arry" -- Frank Bruno.
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| 633.42 | | PSTJTT::TABER | The call of the mild | Thu Mar 09 1989 22:08 | 6 |
| "I have to stop at the one-hour photo place and see if my prints are ready."
-- Ansel Adams
"Erin Go British" -- Bernadette Devlin
"I'll be staying at the King David Hotel." -- Menachim Began
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| 633.43 | | SSDEVO::GOLDSTEIN | | Thu Mar 09 1989 22:54 | 10 |
| "Absolutely!"
-- Albert Einstein
"Anybody got a light?"
-- Thomas Edison
Bernie
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| 633.44 | No ELF server available....Arrrggghh | SAGE::GREER | | Thu Mar 09 1989 23:04 | 5 |
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ELF>
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| 633.45 | Science (easy) | MARVIN::KNOWLES | the teddy-bears have their nit-pick | Fri Mar 10 1989 18:26 | 6 |
| Give me a lever and ... come to think of it, what _would_ I ...?
(Leonardo?)
Nope. She's as flat as a pancake and steady as a rock. (Galileo)
b
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| 633.46 | ... and invention | LESCOM::KALLIS | Anger's no replacement for reason. | Fri Mar 10 1989 18:34 | 17 |
| Re .45 (b):
>........................................................... (Leonardo?)
(Archimedes.)
If the Earth is round, why aren't people on the other side falling
off?
(Newton)
Mr. Watson, who needs you?
(Alexander Graham Bell)
Building bicycles is so much more satisfying.
(Wilbur Wright)
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 633.47 | ...and fiction | MARVIN::MACHIN | | Fri Mar 10 1989 19:06 | 6 |
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"Any idea what 22 across might be, Watson?" -- Sherlock Holmes.
"Thank Heaven, for little girls" -- King Lear
"Reading's not a bad place after all." -- Oscar Wilde
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| 633.48 | | GAO::DKEATING | Even Richard Nixon has got Soul | Fri Mar 10 1989 21:47 | 10 |
| "Yes,Yes,Yes" -- Margaret Thatcher
"Well Blow Me Up" -- Popeye
"After You..." -- Neil Armstrong
"No Thank You I'm Driving" -- Ted Kennedy
"I Was Wrong" -- John Catalano
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| 633.49 | | RAVEN1::MKENNEDY | Eschew sesquipedalianism! | Sat Mar 11 1989 02:24 | 1 |
| "I beg your pardon. I thought this is 'Joy O' Flex'" A. Schwartzeneger
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| 633.50 | put the 8840 there on my desk, please... | TRCO01::FINNEY | Keep cool, but do not freeze ... | Mon Mar 13 1989 06:24 | 14 |
| "You want me to WHAT ???" - Chuck Yeager
"One small step for a man, one ummmmm... uh...hmmmmm..." - Neil
Armstrong
"OK, we surrender" - Commanding General "Nuts" McAuliff at Bastogne.
"A Big Mac, large fries and a coke, to go, please" - John "the Cosmic
Anchovy" Mitchell
Scooter
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| 633.51 | directory enquiries? | IOSG::LAWM | That's just the way it is! | Mon Mar 13 1989 15:15 | 4 |
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"I'm sorry - I think I've got the wrong number."
(Alexander Graham Bell)
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| 633.52 | | SSDEVO::GOLDSTEIN | | Mon Mar 13 1989 23:47 | 5 |
| "I think I'll sit up all night."
-- Samuel Pepys
Bernie
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| 633.53 | afew for the oldies | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | 1:25000 - a magic number | Tue Mar 14 1989 01:58 | 27 |
| G'day
"I planned ahead" - Mr Macawber
"Never in the history of mankind has so much been owed by so many
to so few" Ted heath during the recession of the 70s
"My mac needs a clean" Harold Wilson
"I hate keeping a diary" Pepys
"Whale meat again, don't know where, don't know when" Vera Lynn
"Don't part with any money, Mabel - we owe the tax man" Wilfred
Pickles
djw
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| 633.54 | | KAOFS::S_BROOK | Here today and here again tomorrow | Tue Mar 14 1989 02:30 | 3 |
| "I cannot tell a lie" Ronald Reagan
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| 633.55 | | SSDEVO::GOLDSTEIN | | Tue Mar 14 1989 03:18 | 2 |
| "I am not a hypocrite." Jesse Jackson
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| 633.56 | | TRCO01::FINNEY | Keep cool, but do not freeze ... | Tue Mar 14 1989 05:10 | 7 |
| "be right back" - Douglas MacArthur
"Don't call us, we'll call you" - J.F.K.
Scooter
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| 633.57 | | AYOV27::ISMITH | The fastest way is by Trism! | Tue Mar 14 1989 12:31 | 1 |
| "History is really interesting!" - Henry Ford
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| 633.58 | more | MARVIN::KNOWLES | the teddy-bears have their nit-pick | Tue Mar 14 1989 17:08 | 2 |
| No, thanks, really. If I had another crumb I'd burst.
Oliver Twist
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| 633.59 | Gaw! That pie burned my thumb! -- Jack Horner | LESCOM::KALLIS | Anger's no replacement for reason. | Tue Mar 14 1989 17:34 | 14 |
| I really miss Philadelphia.
- W. C. Fields
I came, I saw, I left.
- Julius Caesar
Give me liberty or give me a break.
- Patrick Henry.
I regret I have but one life to give to my country. I'd kinda like
to have one for my own use.
- Nathan Hale
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| 633.60 | | CNTROL::HENRIKSON | IfHellFreezsOver,WhereCanIReachYou | Tue Mar 14 1989 18:09 | 10 |
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> I regret I have but one life to give to my country. I'd kinda like
> to have one for my own use.
> - Nathan Hale
OR;
I regret that I have but one "*" for my country.
Pete
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| 633.61 | 4 more | LEGLAV::HENRIKW | Don't worry, be Rushdie | Tue Mar 14 1989 18:10 | 12 |
| No, my keyboard just had a defect Shift key.
- e.e. cummings
Sh*t, let's go out and paint the town!
- Emily Dickinson
No thanks, I'm a Reader's Digest subscriber.
- Leo Tolstoi
Has anybody found the CAD/CAM manual?
- Architect (Pisa, Italy)
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| 633.62 | | KAOFS::S_BROOK | Here today and here again tomorrow | Tue Mar 14 1989 18:56 | 1 |
| 633.63 | | ERIS::CALLAS | There is only one 'o' in 'lose.' | Tue Mar 14 1989 21:00 | 3 |
| "I did it with a lot of slow, careful thought, Watson."
-- Sherlock Holmes
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| 633.64 | For that matter, these are attributed, but never said | ERIS::CALLAS | There is only one 'o' in 'lose.' | Tue Mar 14 1989 21:03 | 8 |
| "Elementary, my dear Watson"
-- Sherlock Holmes
"Play it again, Sam."
-- Rick
"Billions and billions"
-- Carl Sagan
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| 633.65 | | COOKIE::DEVINE | Bob Devine, CXN | Tue Mar 14 1989 21:13 | 8 |
| "Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him well"
-- Shakespeare
"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing"
-- Vince Lombardi
These are two famous mis-quotes. The actual lines are
"... I knew him Horatio." and "...Wanting to win is."
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| 633.66 | | VAXWRK::CONNOR | We are amused | Tue Mar 14 1989 22:40 | 3 |
| "I'll drink to that"
John Tower.
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| 633.67 | | SSDEVO::GOLDSTEIN | | Tue Mar 14 1989 23:38 | 5 |
| "Not beans again!"
-- Gregor Mendel
Bernie
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| 633.68 | | AITG::DERAMO | Daniel V. {AITG,ZFC}:: D'Eramo | Wed Mar 15 1989 04:22 | 5 |
| This topic is write locked.
-- the moderators
Dan
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| 633.69 | aside...be still my heart! | WMOIS::B_REINKE | If you are a dreamer, come in.. | Wed Mar 15 1989 07:01 | 14 |
| Dan you just gave me heart failure...
and thanks to all the witty souls so far,
In checking my Sherlock Holmes once I found that he never
said 'elementary my dear Watson' but did come quite close
to that several times, I think that line is from the movies..
but Carl Sagan did say 'billions and billions' I am sure I heard
him say that on a PBS show about the universe!
so there
Bonnie
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| 633.70 | Caaawzzmows! | AYOV27::ISMITH | The fastest way is by Trism! | Wed Mar 15 1989 12:31 | 6 |
| Re .69,
Carl Sagan said: "Beeleeyunns and beeleeyuns!".
"Oh well, if that doesn't suit you how about this?" - The Godfather.
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| 633.71 | Alimentary, my dear Watson | MARVIN::KNOWLES | the teddy-bears have their nit-pick | Wed Mar 15 1989 16:46 | 9 |
| While Julian was in the toilet, Susan fetched the tea things.
Enid Blyton
Re: Elementary my dear Watson
It's not in the books; it may be in a film; I thought it was in a stage
play.
b
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| 633.72 | <dysentry on t.v>- | KERNEL::NDAY | | Wed Mar 15 1989 19:34 | 4 |
| my word,this programme really is terrific.
producer of dynasty.
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| 633.73 | | NEARLY::GOODENOUGH | | Wed Mar 15 1989 21:23 | 1 |
| Another misquote: "Money is the root of all evil"
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| 633.74 | <Things they never said> | POBOX::KAPLAN | | Mon Mar 20 1989 09:20 | 6 |
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"I thought that I told you I need a BUTT light, not a Bud Light"
The frustrated proctologist to his nurse
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| 633.75 | | CSCOA3::CONWAY_J | Golf and marriage are incompatible | Tue Mar 21 1989 00:37 | 4 |
| "I'm saving it for marriage" Joan Collins
"Just say 'no' ", jimmy hendricks, Janice Joplin, Jim Morrisson,
Mama Cass, Len Bias, etc., etc., etc.,.......
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| 633.76 | Well crucial | AYOV27::ISMITH | The fastest way is by Trism! | Tue Mar 21 1989 14:34 | 1 |
| "I'll take these socks, please." - Don Johnson.
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| 633.77 | | EGAV01::DKEATING | Even Richard Nixon has got Soul | Tue Mar 21 1989 17:55 | 2 |
| "*uck 'em Danno" - Steve McGarret(Jack Lord in Hawaii 5-O)
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| 633.78 | ex | LAMHRA::WHORLOW | 1:25000 - a magic number | Wed Mar 22 1989 07:59 | 18 |
| G'day,
re Hawaii 5-0, Travelling from the USA to Australia,
I was able to indulge in what, to an Englishman, must be the ultimate
in crass - I watched it on TV whilst in the Hawaii Village Hilton!
derek
...
""Boring" Mr Spock
"Beat the child regularly" Dr Spock
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| 633.79 | Grafitti quotes | STAR::NOYES | | Sat Mar 25 1989 01:57 | 12 |
| This doesn't quite fit in with the topic, but I thought it was
funny. Some grafitti I once saw:
"To be is to do" - Plato
"To do is to be" _ Sartre
"Doo be doo be doo" - Sinatra
I make no claim that these poeple ever really said
any of these things (except maybe Sinatra.)
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| 633.80 | More grafitti | CRLWIN::treese | Win Treese, Cambridge Research Lab | Sat Mar 25 1989 11:35 | 8 |
| This traditionally has a couple more lines:
"Do be a do bee" - Romper Room
"Yabba dabba doo" - Fred Flintstone
And now, back to your regularly scheduled joy of lex...
- Win
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| 633.81 | | COOKIE::DEVINE | Bob Devine, CXN | Tue Mar 28 1989 07:22 | 2 |
| "Hello, do you have Prince Albert in a can?"
- the Queen Mother
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| 633.82 | ...but it was inscribed on his tombstone. | BLAS03::FORBES | Bill Forbes - LDP Engrng | Fri Apr 21 1989 23:08 | 5 |
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"Cogitave, ergo eram."
- Descartes
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| 633.83 | | VOGON::JOHNSTON | | Mon May 08 1989 23:38 | 7 |
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"A rather limited number of persons are cognisant of that fact"
- Michael Caine
"I know exactly what I want"
- Neil Kinnock
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| 633.84 | What a wonderful world it would be... | STAR::RDAVIS | The Man Without Quantities | Fri Mar 16 1990 00:35 | 28 |
| "People do stuff like that all the time." - Ibsen, "Hedda Gabler"
"Y'know, come to think of it - she's right." - Strindberg
"I'm going back for my MBA." - Mme. Bovary
"Reader, I left him." - Jane Eyre
"I'm taking the fall." - Sam Spade
"Gee, thanks! I'll just sack out on the couch!" - Stephen Dedalus
"I'd rather listen to _you_ talk for a while." - Woody Allen
"Happy Father's Day!" - Sylvia Plath
"April is the coolest month." - T. S. Eliot
"Not so loud!" - Beethoven
"Jack, there's a comfy civil service job opening up, and I think it's
perfect for you." - Henry V
"I... want to be... an Archie." - The Sex Pistols
"I wouldn't dream of it." - Freud
Ray
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| 633.85 | | MILKWY::SLABOUNTY | Heavy_Metal power - 240 watts!! | Fri Mar 16 1990 00:49 | 8 |
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"Hey, somebody want to let me out of here?" - Houdini
"It's really great to accept this award" - Slash, from Guns
'n' Roses
Shawn L.
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| 633.86 | and ... | LESCOM::KALLIS | Pumpkins -- Nature's greatest gift. | Fri Mar 16 1990 01:08 | 7 |
| "J-j-j-just gettin' st-st-started folks!" -- Porky Pig.
"Where did all these *****ing Indians come from?" -- Gen. G. A. Custer
"Sufficient resources at remote node." -- VAXnotes error message
Steve Kallis, Jr.
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| 633.87 | and this one | TLE::RANDALL | living on another planet | Fri Mar 16 1990 18:12 | 3 |
| There is an ELF service available to process user requests.
--bonnie
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| 633.88 | Some other error messages | CASP::SEIDMAN | Aaron Seidman | Fri Mar 16 1990 21:49 | 9 |
| RE: .86
"Excessive resources at remote node"
"You are not currently reachable from remote node"
"TPU external error, it's your fault, not ours"
"RMS-F-GDFSOAB@#$*! ..."
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