- Location
- Visiting BWBs.
Comment on this article Here.
-
Hi Guest!
The costs of running this forum are covered by Sea Lion Press. If you'd like to help support the company and the forum, visit patreon.com/sealionpress
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
Alternate Quotes
- Thread starter David Flin
- Start date
- Location
- Over the rainbow
“Never in the field of human commerce have so few owed so much to so many.”
Winston S Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, commenting on the collapse of the Bank of England
Winston S Churchill, Chancellor of the Exchequer, commenting on the collapse of the Bank of England
FriendlyGhost
Haunting history in a good way
"Once more on to the beach, dear friends, once more"
Henry V of England, leading his army on to the Normandy beaches in 1417 to start the second phase of his war in France.
"A little learning is a dangerous thing"
Joseph Goebbels, supervising the first official Nazi book burning outside the Reichstag, 1933
Henry V of England, leading his army on to the Normandy beaches in 1417 to start the second phase of his war in France.
"A little learning is a dangerous thing"
Joseph Goebbels, supervising the first official Nazi book burning outside the Reichstag, 1933
Last edited:
- Location
- Baselland
“Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders.”
Martin Luther on the crowded 07:32 train service from Woking to Waterloo.
“Houston. We have a problem.”
Final message sent by Davy Crockett before the Battle of the Alamo
Martin Luther on the crowded 07:32 train service from Woking to Waterloo.
“Houston. We have a problem.”
Final message sent by Davy Crockett before the Battle of the Alamo
Alexander Rooksmoor
Well-known member
Brilliant.
Woking deserves a series of alternate histories itself. Not only the site of the first mosque in Britain (still standing and beautiful) and an abortive Oriental Studies institute, the birth place of Derek Griffiths and Paul Weller, but features in both 'The War of the Worlds' and 'The Adventure of the Naval Treaty'; where the Duke of York had a pizza, and for many years the location of a multi-storey car park for left-hand drive cars; now with the largest municipal debt for that size of borough. Old Woking was the location of a favourite palace of Henry VIII.
Woking deserves a series of alternate histories itself. Not only the site of the first mosque in Britain (still standing and beautiful) and an abortive Oriental Studies institute, the birth place of Derek Griffiths and Paul Weller, but features in both 'The War of the Worlds' and 'The Adventure of the Naval Treaty'; where the Duke of York had a pizza, and for many years the location of a multi-storey car park for left-hand drive cars; now with the largest municipal debt for that size of borough. Old Woking was the location of a favourite palace of Henry VIII.
"You are now entering Free Derry"
- standard greeting by Irish passport control to visitors from Ulster Soviet
- standard greeting by Irish passport control to visitors from Ulster Soviet
I remember this used to be a mainstay of 1970s schoolboy humour books, along with the punny-named authors ("Skydiving for Beginners, by Hugo Furst") and the bad French or Latin translations (Je ne comprends pas = "I cannot understand my father"; In loco parentis = "My dad's an engine driver")
I remember this used to be a mainstay of 1970s schoolboy humour books, along with the punny-named authors ("Skydiving for Beginners, by Hugo Furst") and the bad French or Latin translations (Je ne comprends pas = "I cannot understand my father"; In loco parentis = "My dad's an engine driver")
Sic transit gloria mundi = cool van Gloria Mundi.
- Location
- Baselland
Sic transit gloria mundi = cool van Gloria Mundi.
Bob Geldof: “I like the bit about Gloria being sick in the back of a Transit, but I don’t like Mundis.”
- Location
- Derbyshire
I remember this used to be a mainstay of 1970s schoolboy humour books, along with the punny-named authors ("Skydiving for Beginners, by Hugo Furst") and the bad French or Latin translations (Je ne comprends pas = "I cannot understand my father"; In loco parentis = "My dad's an engine driver")
The only thing better than this is finding out Carmina Burana is essentially a comedic piss-take of religious Cantatas.
In the last years of his life, there was a fashion for attributing not merely wrong, but random quotes to RGM. In which spirit I offer this actual, but dislodged quotation
So Blair, keep your England, and I will keep my Zimbabwe ,
Zimbabwean coach, RG Mugabe, in a secretly recorded conversation with England coach, A Blair, presented at the latter's ICC enquiry. Mugabe himself refused to testify, saying that "a gentleman does not repeat private conversations", but the tape, together with testimony from an Afgani player who had actually accepted Blair's monet, sealed the English coaches fate.
So Blair, keep your England, and I will keep my Zimbabwe ,
Zimbabwean coach, RG Mugabe, in a secretly recorded conversation with England coach, A Blair, presented at the latter's ICC enquiry. Mugabe himself refused to testify, saying that "a gentleman does not repeat private conversations", but the tape, together with testimony from an Afgani player who had actually accepted Blair's monet, sealed the English coaches fate.