OneGuyFromBarlick

"I can't understand why the top of your head didn't blow off while you were wagon driving" David Moore after I told him I passed the time in the cab by thinking about history....

"Twenty years solitary confinement" SG describing his time on long distance driving.

"What was that Scotty? I don't know but it drained our crystals" Star Trek.

Loved Star Trek, but no I am not a Trekkie

Loved Lost In Space too, with the robot's arms flapping and saying 'Does not compute, does not compute'. hehe

Cathy, my favourite is Marvin the paranoid android in Hitch hiker's guide....
"Too fast to live. Too young to die" James Brown song about James Dean.

My favourite on star trek was beam me up Scotty. I remember a work colleague when in a predicament got hold of a stapler flicked it open like a walkie talker and said this, he had us all in stitches. Eileen

A few weeks ago I settled down to watch the movie 'Babe" and texted my daughter to let her know it was on. Babe was a favourite movie from her childhood, she is 26yrs old now. Immediatley she texted me back with the comment from the farmer - "That'll do pig".

"For every problem there is a simple, convenient and totally wrong solution" H L Mencken

"The best relationships are forged in the fires of adversity" Stanley in 1984.

"Leisure cannot be fully appreciated unless there is some urgent task demanding attention"

Groucho Marx and a man sat listening to a piano recital in 'Horse Feathers'. Man, "I love good music". Groucho, "So do I, let's get out of here!"

"Semper excretia" It's only the depth that varies.....

"It isn't always your enemies who drop you in the shit and it isn't always your friends that pull you out. The thing to remember is when you are in it up to your neck, keep quiet!"

Someone is sitting in the shade today, because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

David Moore:- "Stanley, it would be nice if, every now and again you listened to my crap detector!" "Yes David...."

"What's the use of having a 7th Cavalry if they all go down with flu at the same time?"

"He was grossly endeeped in his subject"

Success makes life easier, it doesn't make living easier. Bruce Springsteen

"Life is Cricklewood not Hollywood" Eric Morecambe.

"Life can best be described as an imprudent dash from the cradle to the grave, under fire, through open country" Quentin Crisp.

"Sex and eating are best avoided. The level of need associated with both activities tends to damage both good manners and decorum" Quentin Crisp.

Education is what you get when you read the fine print, experience is what you get when you don't. Pete Seeger

Quentin Crisp also said that if you stop dusting it ceases to build up after 3 years......

On the secret of a happy marriage, an old boy on the radio celebrating his 70th wedding anniversary some months ago:

'When you're wrong admit it; when you're right, shut up'.

Might not be his line, but I'd like to think it is.

Richard Broughton

American military man in a discussion about whether to arm the Syrian rebels. "The words 'military' and 'aid' should never be used together.