Motivational Poster Thread (warning content)

Providing that it is consensual, one needn't require 20 / 20 vision to enjoy a lap dance or soak up the ambience of a strip show.

It's not actually anything I'd harp on about.

 

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks"

 

Classic insults


The following insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words:

1. "He had delusions of adequacy ” Walter Kerr


2. "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.”- Winston Churchill


3. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. - Clarence Darrow


4. "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”-William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)


5. "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"- Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)


6. "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.” - Moses Hadas


7. "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.” - Mark Twain


8. "He has no enemies but is intensely disliked by his friends.” - Oscar Wilde


9. "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend, if you have one.” -George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill


10. "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.” - Winston Churchill, in response

11. "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here” - Stephen Bishop


12. "He is a self-made man and worships his creator.” - John Bright


13. "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.” - Irvin S. Cobb


14. "He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others.” - Samuel Johnson


15. "He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up. - Paul Keating


16. "He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.” - Forrest Tucker


17. "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?” - Mark Twain


18. "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.” - Mae West


19. "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.” - Oscar Wilde


20. "He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.” - Andrew Lang (1844-1912)


21. "He has Van Gogh's ear for music.” - Billy Wilder


22. "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But I'm afraid this wasn't it.” - Groucho Marx


23. The exchange between Winston Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, "If you were my husband I'd give you poison." He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."


24. "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln


25. "There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure." -- Jack E. Leonard


26. "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." -- Thomas Brackett Reed


27. "He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebears, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them." -- James Reston (about Richard Nixon) —

 

A nice collection of inspirational ripostes to rip posts with (with a little artistic license of course).

 

pileated wood pecker.

 

Bingo! Dad called them "Pixilated Woodpeckers." They're either the boldest or dumbest birds in the forest.

 

He ought to be engaged in convulsive laughter over that. Having a lifetime ban myself from farcebook over making lib snowflakes whine and snivel is an honor I cherish. But that's just me......

 

And every single year after 1986 they have managed to just screw it up.