Some Useless Facts.

Touchstone · Post by **Touchstone** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:23 pm

"I wish you well and so I take my leave,

I Pray you know me when we meet again."

Post by **spot** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:25 pm

There's no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown,

To make theirs ours, and ours none but our own;

So shall we stay, mocking intended game,

And they well mock'd depart away with shame.

Touchstone · Post by **Touchstone** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:28 pm

jimbo;1074373 wrote: i hope you dont mind me putting a bit on your thread buddy , but i have started a few threads lately .... putting it mildly they have gone down like the value of stirling

so here goes :yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Amazing Anagrams

Amazing Anagrams

Dormitory == Dirty Room

Desperation == A Rope Ends It

The Morse Code == Here Come Dots

Slot Machines == Cash Lost in 'em

Animosity == Is No Amity

Snooze Alarms == Alas! No More Z's

Alec Guinness == Genuine Class

Semolina == Is No Meal

The Public Art Galleries == Large Picture Halls, I Bet

A Decimal Point == I'm a Dot in Place

The Earthquakes == That Queer Shake

Eleven plus two == Twelve plus one

Contradiction == Accord not in it

This one's amazing: [From Hamlet by Shakespeare]

To be or not to be: that is the question, whether tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.

Becomes:

In one of the Bard's best-thought-of tragedies, our insistent hero, Hamlet, queries on two fronts about how life turns rotten.

And the grand finale:

"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." -- Neil A. Armstrong

becomes:

A thin man ran; makes a large stride; left planet, pins flag on moon! On to Mars!

No problem buddy!

Ryan.

joesoap · Post by **joesoap** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 1:33 pm

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure . . . than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that is known as Denwick :yh_rotfl

P.M.

Post by **spot** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 2:46 pm

Touchstone;1069617 wrote: The name Wendy was made up for the book Peter Pan. There was never a recorded Wendy before it.The name of Captain Wendy Oxford resonates down the years from the height of the Civil War. He got into litigious troubles ('House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 20 June 1651', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 6: 1648-1651 (1802), pp. 590-591. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/repor ... mpid=26140 mentions the lead-in to it), wrote pamphlets against Colonel John Oliver Lilburn thinking he was in the right ("A prospective for King and subjects: or a schort discovery of some treacheries acted against Charles the I. and Charles the II..." followed by "The Unexpected Life, and wished for death, of the thing cal’d Parliament in England...", he was sentenced to the pillory and, I think, banished for life. I don't know whether he was a naval or army captain but I do note, interestingly, that another Wendy Oxford died in Plymouth two centuries later so perhaps it became a family name handed down the way family names are.

Touchstone · Post by **Touchstone** » Mon Dec 01, 2008 10:24 pm

spot;1074420 wrote: The name of Captain Wendy Oxford resonates down the years from the height of the Civil War. He got into litigious troubles ('House of Commons Journal Volume 6: 20 June 1651', Journal of the House of Commons: volume 6: 1648-1651 (1802), pp. 590-591. https://www.british-history.ac.uk/repor ... mpid=26140 mentions the lead-in to it), wrote pamphlets against Colonel John Oliver Lilburn thinking he was in the right ("A prospective for King and subjects: or a schort discovery of some treacheries acted against Charles the I. and Charles the II..." followed by "The Unexpected Life, and wished for death, of the thing cal’d Parliament in England...", he was sentenced to the pillory and, I think, banished for life. I don't know whether he was a naval or army captain but I do note, interestingly, that another Wendy Oxford died in Plymouth two centuries later so perhaps it became a family name handed down the way family names are.

Spot;

Can we please go back to Shakespearian quotes?

All this googling your doing is gonna make you even more determined to force me to change the name of this thread to "Some Useless Fictions."

How many of the facts have you debunked so far? Let it be now ... please!

"A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."

Ryan.