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Post by HStorm on Nov 3, 2005 12:24:48 GMT
If you hear any daft public comments that you want to highlight without too much elaboration, here's a thread to pop them into!
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Post by HStorm on Nov 3, 2005 12:29:06 GMT
Charles Clarke: {Beginning of his statement.} "Labour MPs are far happier than five or six years ago".
This is doubtful enough in itself. But a moment later; -
Charles Clarke: "I think if you go to my party, both in Parliament and in the country, you'll find deep, deep sadness at David's resignation... Ministers feel desolate..."
Quote from NewScientist: "Children are less likely to eat large numbers of sweets if they are not hungry."
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Post by HStorm on Nov 18, 2005 13:55:06 GMT
Jose Mourinho, Chelsea Manager: "There is no shame in defeat, on the contrary, it shows that we are the best."
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Post by Thanatos on Nov 18, 2005 17:12:15 GMT
Dennis Skinner: "To ask the Minister for the Civil Service, how many civil servants at the last count are a) men, or b) women?"
Tim Renton: "All of them."
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Post by Thanatos on Nov 27, 2005 2:43:07 GMT
Milton Obote, President of newly independent Uganda, asked whether his policy of removing all vestiges of British rule would include switching to driving on the right, replied, "Yes, gradually."
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Post by HStorm on Dec 2, 2005 21:16:29 GMT
Licence-Dodger: "My TV's a black-and-white set. The programme that's on right now is a one-off colour special."
Licence-Dodger: "I never bother with a TV licence, my set works just as well without one."
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Post by HStorm on Dec 11, 2005 11:59:00 GMT
George W Bush: "Those who infiltrate the border illegally are breaking the law."
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Post by HStorm on Mar 9, 2006 14:33:56 GMT
Headline on BBC website: "Indian bomb blasts blamed on militants."
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Post by HStorm on Apr 4, 2006 20:36:04 GMT
GWB at the Cancun trade summit: "We're here to address trade issues... one way of looking at it is if we didn't have any trade there wouldn't be any issues."
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Post by Naselus on Jun 16, 2006 18:28:13 GMT
CIA director George W H Bush (in relation to the Iran Contras):
"These outrages have been caused by rogue elephants within the CIA".
Rogue elephants? How did they pass the entrance exams, George?
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Post by HStorm on Jun 16, 2006 23:23:04 GMT
GWB: "You cannot read a newspaper if you can't read."
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Post by HStorm on Aug 24, 2006 11:07:45 GMT
"People who practise a religion and regularly attend church are more superstitious than those who do not." - Insightful conclusion to a thesis published by the University of Wales.
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Post by modeski on Aug 24, 2006 11:51:07 GMT
HOLY CRAP (lol), I would never have imagined that! Great find, HStorm. Those wacky academics...
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Post by HStorm on Nov 9, 2006 10:45:53 GMT
"Showing picture books to toddlers can help them learn." - shock new finding by the American Psychological Association.
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Post by HStorm on Feb 27, 2007 16:42:35 GMT
(I haven't quite got this one word for word, but the sheer stupidity of the logic is so gross that I simply have to include it to the best of my memory.)
Laura Bush: "The rate of bombings [in Baghdad] is now down to one per day, showing the situation has stabilised."
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Post by HStorm on Nov 23, 2007 18:24:43 GMT
More startling insights from the world of scientific enquiry; -
'People who comfort-eat when unhappy or binge-eat when celebrating are more likely to become fat than those who don't.' - Obesity Journal.
'Students consume more alcohol when watching a big football game than during a non-sporting event.' - University of Texas.
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Post by HStorm on Dec 12, 2007 13:09:51 GMT
Not quite sure this is the right thread for this one, but it's as close as I can find.
After a small string of attacks by badgers in Basra, so many people were convinced this was a new weapon of war that UK military spokesman Major Mike Shearer had to announce publicly: "We can categorically state that we have not released man-eating badgers into the area."
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