Reply to: Well, It Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time!

[markinbrussels]

Ever made a gaffe and had to use the well worn phrase "Well, It Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time" as your defence?

That's what Bush said when asked about the Iraq invasion back in 2003.

Mark

[cojak]

And another...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/6672217.stm

[wendigo100]

Leave off our Freddie !

There wasn't much choice plus Brearley would of struggled with the rabble we had to pick from after being battered at Adelaide.

I love Freddy, but he is a crap England captain, and I've said so since he was first asked to do the job.

The rabble was a rabble because they all got up their own arseholes after winning the Ashes in 2005. They needed a good kicking to bring them down to planet earth, not put the biggest piss-head in charge!

The only series England have won since is against Pakistan, which is the only one that Freddy missed, so I rest my case.

[Churchill]

would <b>have</b> struggled

(Ideally there should be a glyph of a teacher holding up a board saying "grammar", as the spelling was fine.)

That depends on whether he meant "would've" now, doesn't it?

[OwlHoot]

Leave off our Freddie !

There wasn't much choice plus Brearley would of struggled with the rabble we had to pick from after being battered at Adelaide.

would <b>have</b> struggled

(Ideally there should be a glyph of a teacher holding up a board saying "grammar", as the spelling was fine.)

[shoes]

It seemed like a good idea at the time....

Choosing to study computer science at university.

[OwlHoot]

Ever made a gaffe and had to use the well worn phrase "Well, It Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time" as your defence?

Perhaps Gavrilo Princep said that after shooting Archduke Ferdinand in 1914...

[cojak]

I wanted to clean the kitchen drain and so, fresh from an episode from 'How clean is Your House?' I dutifully emptied a cup of bicarb, salt and soda crystals down the plughole. It immediately set like concrete and hubby had to spend the night dismantling the U-bend and taking a chisel to the offending 'cleaner'.



But It Did Seem Like etc, etc...

[rootsnall]

...appointing that Lancashire lummock as cricket captain last year.

Leave off our Freddie !

There wasn't much choice plus Brearley would of struggled with the rabble we had to pick from after being battered at Adelaide.

[wendigo100]

Not in Doncaster. Allegedly.

Ask the footy fans up there!

[wendigo100]

It seemed like a good idea at the time...

...appointing that Lancashire lummock as cricket captain last year.

[threaded]

P.S. Do remember that more than one seat of fire makes them a tad suspicious.

Not in Doncaster. Allegedly.

[Francko]

And when my missus insisted that I should have taken her advice in the first place, my response? "Well, It Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time". She wasn't impressed.

Anyone else have a story to tell?

Have you tried:

"Threaded suggested that in the forum"

[Moose423956]

It seemed like a good idea at the time...

...Ramnaresh Sarwan putting England in to bat.

[threaded]

Surely you should just insure well, switch on power, collect insurance & then
build a new house on your newly vacant plot

Some do that, buy a new kitchen, carpets, don't even bother to unpack it, well, they have all the receipts at any rate, flick the switch. Allegedly.

You have to have friends in the fire-brigade. I've heard tell of a cigarette butt smoldering for 2 weeks on a mattress...