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That famous breed, the "Double-butt"? ?
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First impression was of a four-legged chicken!
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Brilliant! 
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These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. Insults then, had some class!
1. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play;
Bring a friend, if you have one."
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill.
"Cannot possibly attend first night, I will attend the second...If there is one."
- Winston Churchill, in response.
2. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows, or of some unspeakable disease."
· "That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
3. "He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
4. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow
5. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
6."Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas
7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain
8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.."
- Oscar Wilde
9. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop
10."He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
- John Bright
11. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb
12. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson
13. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
- Paul Keating
14. "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
- Charles, Count Talleyrand
15. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
- Forrest Tucker
16. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
- Mark Twain
17. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
- Mae West
18. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde
19. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... For support rather than illumination."
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
20. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
- Billy Wilder
21. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx.
22."He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill
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1. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play;
Bring a friend, if you have one."
George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill.
"Cannot possibly attend first night, I will attend the second...If there is one."
- Winston Churchill, in response.
2. A member of Parliament to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows, or of some unspeakable disease."
· "That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."
3. "He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr
4. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow
5. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).
6."Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it."
- Moses Hadas
7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
- Mark Twain
8. "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.."
- Oscar Wilde
9. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here."
- Stephen Bishop
10."He is a self-made man and worships his creator."
- John Bright
11. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb
12. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others."
- Samuel Johnson
13. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up."
- Paul Keating
14. "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily."
- Charles, Count Talleyrand
15. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
- Forrest Tucker
16. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
- Mark Twain
17. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
- Mae West
18. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde
19. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... For support rather than illumination."
- Andrew Lang (1844-1912)
20. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
- Billy Wilder
21. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx.
22."He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
- Winston Churchill
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Thanks for the cheering up, folks! I've got the worst cold I've had in years, and feeling a bit like death warmed over! Definitely in need of a smile, before trying to sleep.
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Get well soon LadyA, seem to be a lot of really nasty colds going around at the moment.
Love the insults, they were also pre the days of rushing off to sue someone when they insulted you.
I was reminded of Bessie Bradock talking to Churchill
"Winston, you're drunk"
" madam you are ugly, but I will be sober in the morning"
Love the insults, they were also pre the days of rushing off to sue someone when they insulted you.
I was reminded of Bessie Bradock talking to Churchill
"Winston, you're drunk"
" madam you are ugly, but I will be sober in the morning"
The last one reminds me of how my dad used to describe me. He said that I had all of his bad points & all of my mother's!!
Me too, I’ve been rather ill the past two weeks with a lung infection, not good for my COPD. Now on my second set of antibiotics (first lot didn’t touch it) plus steroids, plus a drug supposed to thin the mucus and help me to get rid of it. The good side of this drug are the side effects- they’re sort of happy pills - I might consider selling a few to local teenagers for party use. The downside is that they seem to work best at night, when I’m horizontal, so I settle down, start to cough, sit up, have coughing fit and deal with the products. Lie down again, —and repeat literally ALL last night, had no sleep AT ALL.
Then today there’s an article in the Guardian about how the brain washes away the harmful sediment and restores your software overnight if you sleep well, but esp. in older people who don’t sleep well the brain can’t cleanup the amyloid plaque, resulting in greater risk of dementia. Cheery stuff!
On the bright side, our new 14-week-old puppy, Pippin, is a delight, a real little sweetie, and very bright, he’s learned everything on the puppy class curriculum already, although the actual classes are so full of new stimulus and other pups that he can’t demonstrate his skills in the face if all the distractions, but that’s what we go for. The trainer is the same as we had for dear Poppy in 2014, absolutely brilliant lady, so all good. Here he is, helping with the washing, and totally clapped out after puppy class.
