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Thread: Change Quote by One Letter
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Change a famous quote or quip by one letter (add, subtract, substitute, or transpose) and attribute it to someone else.
PLEASE: ONE PER POST.
Examples:
Jeffrey Dahmer: "What foods these mortals be!"
Michael Jackson: "Here's looking at your kid."
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Adam.
Like as the
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"If you're going through Hull, keep on going."
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birdie
fowl
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"What doesn't kill you makes you stranger."
(This is indeed true in my life.)
Bother, missed the bit about attribution, sorry.
[ 18. April 2013, 15:43: Message edited by: birdie ]
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Captain Jack Sparrow
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Leorning Cniht
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"Once more unto the beach, dear friends, once more!"
Prince Harry plans his summer holidays.
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Sioni Sais
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Same letter, in same word, so I hope it qualifies:
"Those who mine don't matter, and those who matter don't mine".
(late) Lady Thatcher.
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balaam
Making an ass of myself
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"Thou shalt not omit adultery." Casanova.
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Leorning Cniht
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"Read my lips: no new taxis."
George H. W. Bush, President of the Washington, DC taxi drivers' cartel.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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"Ask not what your country can do for yo; ask what yo can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy, commenting on the mistaken notion that slang is a cultural phenomenon.
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Leorning Cniht
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"I feel your rain."
Bill Clinton, celebrating the end of the drought with Arkansas farmers.
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Schroedinger's cat
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"I hate a dream" - MLK, after a particularly bad nightmare.
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Timothy the Obscure
Mostly Friendly
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"The audacity of hops."
Barack Obama's comment on the White House Honey Porter.
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L'organist
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" I have a dram " - MLK find a fresh bottle of malt
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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"It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be tight."
George Osborne
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L'organist
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" Go nest, young man " - Mrs Greeley's encouragement to her marriage averse son
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L'organist
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"They shall grow not cold, as we that are left grow cold " - and how many of us have wished that were true on a chilly Remembrance Sunday morning, eh? ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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L'organist
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" While shepherds watched their flocks by light,
All heated on the ground,
The angle of the Lord came down,
And, gory, shone around."
Two for the price of One: A Nightmare on Elm Street meets A Christmas Carol.
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Firenze
Ordinary decent pagan
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A Tale of Twa Cities
Glasgae 'n' Embra.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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"A Penn saved is a penny earned."
Benjamin Franklin, commenting on what the church might expect to find in the collection basket after the baptism of the founder of Pennsylvania.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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"We'll always have pairs."
Hopeful gambler to his partner
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The Rogue
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An editor inadvertently re-wrote Shakespeare's piece about Richard III losing his trousers. The line should have been quote:
A hose, a hose, my kingdom for a hose
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Pearl B4 Swine
Ship's Oyster-Shucker
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"Fear not, Marry !"
Gabe misunderstands the message he's to deliver.
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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"You cannot cool all of the people all of the time."
Wise advice that reminds us that anger management courses are not for everyone.
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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Stetson
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"What I think was behind it? Being hosers!"
Uncle of the Boston Bombing suspects, blaming Canada.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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"What fools these portals be!"
--Arthur Dent on obnoxious sentient doorways from the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation
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Leorning Cniht
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"What a piece of work is a fan."
Hamlet, ventilation salesman.
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Leorning Cniht
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"I am that merry wanderer of the right!"
Mark Sanford, explaining how much he enjoys "hiking the Appalachian trail"
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
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"It was the best of limes, it was the worst of limes."
Jimmy Buffet, on problems with a recent margarita.
Aside to LC: Lovely reference re. Sanford's "hiking." ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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A small stop for man, a giant leap for mankind.
My spelling teacher, exagerrating a bit about the use of proper punctuation.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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So man is an island, -- John Donne, commenting on the isolation of the individual.
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L'organist
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But how can this thread not mention the great work of Mr Bowdler?
Having been sent to a school where "waste not, want not" was almost a religion, we still used a Bowdler edition of Shakespeare.
None of us ever had any trouble in understanding Othello's motivation, having read " She played the trumpet in his bed... " - well, wouldn't YOU be moved to strangle? ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
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Big Blue football team about to play Wisconsin:
"Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers."
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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"Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tony words."
Yep, Tony, we are sooo glad you've finally admitted it. And how you've been living it since leaving office!!
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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L'organist
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On the memorial in Highgate Cemetery
Workers of the world untie,
You have nothing to lose but your chins!
![[Snigger]](graemlins/snigger.gif)
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
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Sign at baker's, on Good Friday:
Happiness is a warm bun.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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"Once more unto the beach, once more"
Another happy family holiday.
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Lord may all my hard times be healing times
take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
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Medieval warrior, to his arrow:
"Do not go gentle into that good knight."
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EtymologicalEvangelical
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"I know the British people and they are not passengers - they are divers."
That's right, Dave. We're scouring the seabed to look for all that treasure that's suddenly disappeared in the shipwreck of our economy!
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You can argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome': but you neither can nor need argue with a man who says, 'Rice is unwholesome, but I'm not saying this is true'. CS Lewis
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L'organist
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" L'etat, c'est mo "
Cut-off in his prime, I fear.
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LeRoc
Famous Dutch pirate
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We're not in kangas anymore!
A Kenyan woman activist, denouncing that women in her country have westernized their clothing too much.
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jacobsen
seeker
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The port you have always with you.
The Earl of Grantham to the guest who hogs the decanter instead of sending it round.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
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Naomi, to Boaz:
"You can't handle the Ruth!"
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jacobsen
seeker
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Jesus wet.
Edited out of the gospels. A natural result of falling asleep in a fishing boat during a storm.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Pearl B4 Swine
Ship's Oyster-Shucker
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Julie thought she smelled something familiar arising from the shrubbery below her balcony...
Romeo,Romeo! Wherefore fart thou, Romeo?
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"I do a good job and I know how to do this stuff" D. Trump (speaking of the POTUS job)
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jacobsen
seeker
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My mind to me a kinkdom is said Dr. Lector, -just so long as no-one checks my downloads.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Loose hips sink ships -- dire warning against the dangers of onboard dancing.
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jacobsen
seeker
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The loved on
Casanova just kept going.
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But God, holding a candle, looks for all who wander, all who search. - Shifra Alon
Beauty fades, dumb is forever-Judge Judy
The man who made time, made plenty.
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churchgeek
Have candles, will pray
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Had Nathan Hale been a coward, he still wouldn't have been a bigamist.
I only regret that I have but one wife to lose for my country.
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I reserve the right to change my mind.
My article on the Virgin of Vladimir
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mousethief
Ship's Thieving Rodent
# 953
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Alice, on being too busy to die:
Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for Mel.
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