Ok, this thread needs to be hijacked again...

I suggest a (not) random quote thread. :arrgh!:

Ok, Bellman started it. :up: ;)

"The establishment might grind slow, but it grinds fine." ---Bob Marley

Ok, now its someone elses turn. :)

:rotfl: Remember 'Nightmare on Elm Street '? -''I'm still here.''

But as Jamie likes to be 'frightened' should I have put on my Jack Torrance (Nicholson) mad writers hat and said
''Honey I'm home'' - swingng that little axe at the Overlord Hotel ,in The Shining. Was that scarey ?:o :huh: :dead:

OK as requested -
'Laugh and the world laughs with you;
Weep and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.'
Wilcox.

Holding that sentiment - I hope 'Bilges' will continue to attract a little humour about the oddities of life. ;)
I mean Bilges is for a little light rubbish from ALL the crew - so come on throw a bit in here please. :lol:
:-j :o :huh: :dead:

It's a miracle! Old Blow Dries is back and the whole of the US is singing.
(Morphed from Garard Baker - The Times.)

This article carries a health warning to our 'friends across the water' - it employs a little irony - ok.

EVERY NOW AND THEN an event of genuinely startling cultural significance forces its way into our consciousness,
requiring us to rethink all our assumptions, and challenging us to stand up for what we really believe.
I am enjoined by my wife not to write anything derogatory about Manilow.

Too often we take for granted what we should truly treasure. We forget the horrors of a past we have escaped
from and we underestimate the willingness of others to undo it all and take us back there.

We have witnessed one of these episodes in the last week. I’m talking, of course, about the return of Barry Manilow..............
“I write the songs that make the whole world sing/ I write the songs of love and special things/ I write.......''

I had known for a while that Americans were in a state of some dismay about the state of their country.
But who knew it was this bad? That in turning away from today’s traumas, they would look for inspiration to 1977,
and the voice of that generation.

But then again, as my wife would put it, there may be a simpler explanation for all this. Really good music,
performed by really talented musicians, just never goes out of style.

PS Note the attendance of the Rolling Stones at Superbowl. In return for 'Liberty Boats' we send the USA our........
Rock Crocks ?

I think I made him blow harder... :dead:

:lol: :yep: But I love quotations so bring 'em on. ;)

Or even ''a funny thing happened ''........................feel free to brighten someones day ........even one. :up:

I hope this thread has a happy ending, because this is one hell of a massage.

:lol: A ''massage'' for the 4000+ hits - not me just more work.

It has always had the Sword of Damocles hanging over it. Thats the Mods privilege - it spins while it spins
then it spins away. C'est le vie ! Its not a blog - just an attempt to divert, interest and ammuse.
In my old fashioned book that is usualy called beeing civilised.

Sorry it seems to bother someone so busy with other things - cant figure why. ! :hmm:

The label is clear 'Bilges.' So why enter - something to contributel? Please do - make me laugh.

Sword of Demosthenes.

And you're British... :lol:

Yeah, but 2800 of them are you. :know: :-j

:rotfl: .......... you need some sleep. :up:
:rotfl:

The Sword of Damocles, Brewers.
Impending danger or disaster. Damocles , a sycophantr of Dionysius the Elder, of Syracuse, was invited
by the tyrant to test the felicitty of which he boasted. Accepting, he was set down to a sumptious banquet,
but over his head a sword was suspended by a hair. Damocles was afraid to stir, and the banquet was a torment for him.

English old son.

:rotfl: So 2 out of three wrong and I cant be bothered to count my devoted posts - it could be 3 out of 3.

Hit the sack mate you've been burning the candle at both ends and its beginning to show. :yep: ;)

Damn, you're right about the Greek. :damn:

Crap. I do need some sleep. :-j

:) First Officer here - Captain Bellman sends his respects and has asked me to inform you that he has now
gone ashore where he is carrying out further research into the choice of a suitable hostlery, for the crews
pre-embarkation party. Such a dedicated officer. :-j

So have you tried LWAMI 3.00? :)

Reaching down an old battered copy of the 'Thurber Carnival' to checkout that quote,
I got sucked-in for a chuckle or two.

'James Thurber, the great American humourist writer and cartoonist is a model for those of us who value
gentle self-deprecatory wit with a dash of wistfulness and melacholy. He depicts in simple lines -
and words - the pathetic, yet humorous stupidities of the people of his day and age. Everybody, even Thurber
himself, has tried to define his superlative mixture of inconsequence, absurdity, and irony -
and everybody has failed,for the scenes and situations he presents belong to that hinterland
between reality and fantasy where logic has no meaning.'

Some quotes:-

'Well if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone ?'

'Its our own story exactly! He bold as a hawk, she soft as the dawn.

'Well who made the magic go out of our marriage - you or me ?'

'Theres no use your trying to save me, my good man.'

'Your not my patient, you're my meat, Mrs Quist !'

To his depressed hound - 'For heavans sake, why
dont you go outdoors and trace something ?'

:-j