Marty_d Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 It'd be very sad if he got that saying the wrong way around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 I think he said don't trust a fart or waste an erection. No, it wasn't Billy Connolly PM, it was Sir John Falstaff in the Shakespeare play 'Henry IV part One'. . . . close,. . . but no Bunnings hotdog. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 "We'll all be rooned ..." Said by whom to who, and in what ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 'twas in an Irish accent most forlorn but I can't recall in what Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted March 23, 2017 Share Posted March 23, 2017 Almost, but no cigar. The correct line is: "In accents most forlorn" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 I do know the line OME just can't recall who wrote it It's long enough to be from Lawson's pen but not him, I'm certain another line "It's looking crook" said Daniel Croke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Are you sure Ian intended this forum to slide down into this morass of intellectuality???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Are you sure Ian intended this forum to slide down into this morass of intellectuality???? Oh, Nomadpete. You're such a Palestine. Hiho, you're on the right page, but Daniel didn't say it. "It’s lookin’ crook," said Daniel Croke; "Bedad, it’s cruke, me lad For never since the banks went broke Has seasons been so bad." Begorrah, I've almost let the leprechaun slip. OME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 "We'll all be rooned ..."Said by whom to who, and in what ? Got me there OME. . . A similar sounding one is 'We'rrrre all DOOOOOOOOMED. . .' The late John Laurie - in 'Dad's Army' . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Are you sure Ian intended this forum to slide down into this morass of intellectuality???? 'morass of intellectuality???? ' What a Great line Pete . . .I'm nickin' that for my collection of eruditisms. . .! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 And the kewpie doll almost goes to red750. You still have not got the title correct. Said Hanrahan - John O'Brien )ME Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 John O'Brien was a pen name, he was actually Father Hartigan, a priest in Narrandera. The names of the characters in the poem were all real local families, like the Cronks. I went to school with some of them. (Sorry, not funny, but perhaps interesting). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hihosland Posted March 24, 2017 Share Posted March 24, 2017 Who, where, when "I come here not as a polished politician" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted March 25, 2017 Share Posted March 25, 2017 They say, you can polish a turd, but it's still a turd. ( A version of a "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet". I just love. I now nothing about anything in this line of business so I will bring a fresh approach to running it. This makes a virtue of ignorance. A questionable process, if you apply logic at all. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 We will all be rooned. Hanrahan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Hanrahan was an optimist! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bexrbetter Posted April 14, 2017 Share Posted April 14, 2017 Hanrahan was an optimist! Is he any good, because I need some new glasses myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David2ayo Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 Is he any good, because I need some new glasses myself. Making a spectacle of yourself again! David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David2ayo Posted June 25, 2017 Share Posted June 25, 2017 "So, whose got the family brain cell today?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Perry Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 "So, whose got the family brain cell today?" Fewer and Fewer of us David,. . .if this American university study is to be believed. . . .! [ATTACH]49032._xfImport[/ATTACH] ( Jaysus ! in 2110, who the heck is going to repair all the airliner and Jabiru engines and all the foodmaking equipment at Pizza Huts and Maccy D's ? ? WE ARE ALL DOOMED I TELL YOU. . .DOOMED ! ! ! ) According to MENSA tests,. . .My two Daughters scored 128 and 122 respectively, whilst at their respective Universities. . ( Eldest first [35 today - Youngest - 33 August just gone ] which PROVES conclusively that they were conceived whilst I was working away. . . .( I scored so low that I wasn't allowed to take any tests. . .I said 'WHY NOT ?. . .they said that if I had an IQ higher than 42, I would Know the answer to that. . . . Barstards. . .) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Your Village is missing you. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Fewer and Fewer of us David,. . .if this American university study is to be believed. . . .! [ATTACH=full]2676[/ATTACH] ( Jaysus ! in 2110, who the heck is going to repair all the airliner and Jabiru engines and all the foodmaking equipment at Pizza Huts and Maccy D's ? ? WE ARE ALL DOOMED I TELL YOU. . .DOOMED ! ! ! ) According to MENSA tests,. . .My two Daughters scored 128 and 122 respectively, whilst at their respective Universities. . ( Eldest first [35 today - Youngest - 33 August just gone ] which PROVES conclusively that they were conceived whilst I was working away. . . .( I scored so low that I wasn't allowed to take any tests. . .I said 'WHY NOT ?. . .they said that if I had an IQ higher than 42, I would Know the answer to that. . . . Barstards. . .) I think whoever did that graph is on the lower side of the spectrum, given there's no way on earth they can extrapolate something like average worldwide IQ more than a decade or so, much less 100 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 I think whoever did that graph is on the lower side of the spectrum, given there's no way on earth they can extrapolate something like average worldwide IQ more than a decade or so, much less 100 years. You haven't factored in the late 20th Century factors of TV, monopoly-owned newspapers, visual media domination by the USA, Internet-based social media, abandonment of the 3-Rs in education by thepromotion of multiple minority causes ........ I'm surprised that the the graph's formula is in the First Degree (y = -mx + b). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted October 24, 2017 Share Posted October 24, 2017 Education is NOT the same as intelligence. Intelligence is a capacity not an end condition. Knowledge is learned/acquired. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted October 25, 2017 Share Posted October 25, 2017 Plus IQ is only one factor. Someone with high emotional intelligence but lower IQ may be far more suited to many jobs than another person with the reverse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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