OneGuyFromBarlick

It's all gone spooky again. I had that line in my mind all day yesterday, but in my version it was Cambridge (of course), and it was seventhly.

This was the quote which brought it to mind. From Jonathan Sacks the chief Rabbi -

"I love the remark made by one Oxford don about another: ‘On the surface, he’s profound, but deep down, he’s superficial."

PS - I wonder if he is related to Abe Sacks of Salford and Spring Garden Manchester, who used to make my suits. Hope so.

I've always held that you can tell a man by the quality of his boots but my confidence was shaken one day when I heard a Don say "In my experience, if people are bright at one end they are usually dull at the other".

Talking about the disturbing sight of his headmaster's truss rising in his trousers every time he sat down David Moore said it was 'Built on the Clyde'!

"Sir, your book is, in parts, both good and original. However the good parts are not original and the original not good" (Attributed to Dr Johnson)

" Scribble scribble scribble Mr Gibbons, another damned thick book". George III reputedly said this to Gibbons when he presented the King with the latest volume of his 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'.

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds" (Edgar Wilson Nye, quoted in Mark Twain's Autobiography, 1924. US humorist (1850 - 1896))

"My dear McClellan, if you don't want to use the army I'd like to borrow it for a while" Paraphrase of Abe Lincoln's message to McClellan in 1862 when he was under suspicion of avoiding the enemy.

Said of the American president Calvin Coolidge: "He looks as though he had been weaned on a pickle"

"He hasn't got a single redeeming defect"

"Hard faced men who looked as though they had done well out of the war" (Stanley Baldwin's description of certain members of the Front Bench after the 1918 election) See this LINK for more on this subject.

"I told you onst. I told you twiste. No goddamit!"
Reputed to be a quotation by Nathan Forrest, a Civil War general. From a document at the National Archives. The document is a letter from an officer in perfect script explaining at length how much he wanted to take leave to attend his daughter’s wedding. Scrawled at the end in pencil is:

“I done tole you twicet godammit no.”

Let us not forget the Daily Telegraph reporter who rang Stanley and alicited from him the fact that he had been made redundant, his marriage had failed and his only hope was a course in Further Education. As he rang off I heard him say "Thank you Mr Moore" and realised he had confused me with David at the college. I rang him back and corrected the error but when I told David he said "That was a mistake! We could have sued them for all they've got!"

"The summer school for the disabled is very valuable to me. It reminds me that I am technically disabled" Dave Blezard in 1984. He was vice principal of Nelson and Colne College and was blind.

I once asked David Blezard, who was stone blind, how he could walk into a room, go up to a person and clap his hand on their shoulder. He said "Easy, just aim slightly right of the gob!"

"Stanley, neither of us owns a car, we own follies" We were stood looking at his massive Mercedes and my Lancia Fulvia.....

"Your CV looks like the North Face of the Eiger! You'll have to tone it down!" David Moore when advising me about job applications.

I was asked what I had been doing at Pendle Heritage Centre during my first year as a project manager. "Learning to manage my Director from below". I still think that was one of the most valuable things I learned there....

"How long did it cost you?"

'Is there no beginning to your talents?'

Clive Anderson to Jeffrey Archer (or Lord Fibber of Whopping as Private Eye calls him).

When Archer proudly noted his latest book had been knocked off in a few months, Anderson asked: 'What? Did you have writer's block?'

Richard Broughton

I like it Richard!

"He has a degree in Spoken Technical Drawing"

Asked how he first heard about the Open College, Jim TAPPER(!) said he overheard a conversation when, as a telephone engineer, he was checking lines in a manhole outside the College. He came into the college, joined and did the course.

Your line Stanley "How long did it cost you" reminded me of when my daughter first started paid work. She would come home with all sorts of things she had bought and if I thought something was a bit too expensive for her budget I would remind her to think how many hours she had to work to buy it.
Bit of a downer for her but I think she thought of it when buying stuff... a few times anyway

Exactly Cathy! I've always thought like that It took 210 hours to earn the money for our first pram.... 12,000 to buy the farm. So the former was dear in today's terms but the latter was dirt cheap! Funny old world.....

" I complain about bad service in shops now" Bob Hargreaves after getting his degree through Open College and Lancaster.

"Having Doug Barber in a Head's meeting was like Oliver Cromwell sitting in" David Moore in 1984.

"I can never understand why Len Dole nominated David Moore as a JP and Simon Townley nominated me" (Doug Barber. Len Dole was the Labour Party agent and Townley was a dyed in the wool Tory, Doug was definitely on the Left!)