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Quotes that just came into my head

Matthew @ 11:56, September 9, 2005 to Top Five | Comments (11)


Comments:

Pesce Verde

Oh dear. Why, what did you say? Or would I rather not know?

Groucho Marx is great. And speaking of quotes, I rather like this one: “Was it Da Vinci who said that anyone who quotes authors in discussion is using their memory, not their intellect?” – Mathias the horse.

Comment added at 21:31, September 9, 2005

Sheepie

There was a woman in America who was arrested for being sarcastic when someone at the airport asked her if she was a terrorist, or carrying explosives or something.

Comment added at 21:44, September 9, 2005

Rory

No, she said something like “I have a bomb in my bag”, they asked her twice to repeat herself and she confirmed it, and she was arrested.

She didn’t have a bomb in her bag and claimed she was joking.

People are silly.

Comment added at 01:09, September 10, 2005

Mr E

What did you say anyway, Matt?

Comment added at 11:50, September 10, 2005

Matthew

Probably something beginning with the words “If I was a terrorist…” – to be honest, I can’t remember.

Comment added at 14:56, September 10, 2005

Verity

If you was a terrorist? Tsk tsk.

Comment added at 22:58, September 10, 2005

Martina

Just what I was thinking V.

Comment added at 11:43, September 11, 2005

Matthew

Ah. You’re quite right.

Nuts. I wonder why I wrote that?

(Only a pedant like me would actually care about this…)

Comment added at 17:47, September 12, 2005

Julie B.

They only arrest you if you’re in an airport.

If you are an actual terrorist, like say, Mohammed Atta, you could stand in a government employee’s office and ask for a small business loan so you can build a really, really big crop duster, complain bitterly about having to deal with a woman, wonder aloud (while looking at a picture of Washington DC) how Americans would like it if someone came and blew up their national monuments, and threaten to slit the throat of that same government employee after being refused for the loan.

You could also come back into the same office the next week using a different name and a pair of fake glasses, demanding another loan.

You could do all those things, and no one would even say boo.

Comment added at 02:16, September 18, 2005

Matthew

What fun, I must try that. However, we were in an airport at the time (but in Switzerland).

Comment added at 13:53, September 18, 2005

Sheepie

Well, in Luton about to go to Switzerland.

Comment added at 18:02, September 19, 2005

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