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    #31
    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    May you always buy cheap, and sell dear
    Old Jewish gag, based on the same: "Buy sheep. Sell deer."
    My all-time favourite Dilbert cartoon, this is: BTW, a Dumpster is a brand of skip, I think.

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      #32
      I'd rather have my still beating heart wrenched from its ribcage!

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        #33
        My ole man used to say "Kiss my sweet bippy"

        Meaning foxtrot oscar I think. He is a northern whiskey drinking monkey though.
        Knock first as I might be balancing my chakras.

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          #34
          Originally posted by Dog's Heinous
          "You can't polish a turd."

          Example context:


          Bloke 1: "I've worked hard to fix up this old banger, but it still doesn't look that good."
          Bloke 2: "Well mate, bottom line is - you can't polish a turd."
          As someone pointed out to me on Monday

          "yes, but you can roll it in glitter"

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            #35
            Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
            As someone pointed out to me on Monday

            "yes, but you can roll it in glitter"
            Hmm, actually heard that one in Danish the other day:

            Du kan ikke polere en lort.

            Men, du kan rulle den i glimmer.
            Insanity: repeating the same actions, but expecting different results.
            threadeds website, and here's my blog.

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              #36
              Originally posted by Platypus View Post
              I haven't laughed so much since Auntie Mabel caught her left tit in the mangle
              You miserable sinner . . .

              The vegetarian option.

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                #37
                I slung her the wobbly warhead
                (\__/)
                (>'.'<)
                ("")("") Born to Drink. Forced to Work

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                  #38
                  Thyey Couldn't organise a social occasion in a brewery

                  (American firm lots of HR)


                  Thanks thats an interesting idea Bob, so everyone WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO TO FIX THIS?

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                    #39
                    for pete's sake - where did that come from???
                    "Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch." - Orson Welles

                    Norrahe's blog

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                      #40
                      No 5h1t, Sherlock!

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