Things you wished you had said.

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Recently, a girl of about 15 nearly got herself killed by running across a pelican crossing before the green man (oops, it's the more PC "Green Figure" now, isn't it?) appeared. When she got to my side she came up to me, waved her arms in the air and yelled "I'm Mad! Totally F-ing Crazy!" and waltzed off up the street clearly very impressed with herself. Seconds too late, as always, it occured to me to smile sympathetically and say "No you're not Love, you're just a bit silly." Maybe not the wittiest of rejoinders, but it would have made me feel a bit better...

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Drugs, she was on.

At the airport, the question "Have you left this bag unattended at any time?" deserves the true answer of "Well, it's been in the loft for 12 months".

Last week I got as far as "Well...." but I stopped myself. Pre 9-11 I would have done it, not now. Last time I got smart at security I got a full search. Deservedly so.

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Recently I was at a party in London where one of the guests was quite an annoying American who seemed to babble on for most of the evening on how great the Democrats were. After a couple of bottles of Moet, I fell over, which prompted this American to ask "are you drunk sir?" I just wish I had replied 'does Rose Kennedy have a black dress?'

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Many years ago the deputy manager in our department was a rather intollerant, know-it-all type. One day when something minor had gone wrong she said "why am I surrounded by idiots?"

I thought, but didn't say, "because no-one else would put up with you". Maybe that was best left unsaid, though.

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Recently I was at a party in London where one of the guests was quite an annoying American who seemed to babble on for most of the evening on how great the Democrats were. After a couple of bottles of Moet, I fell over, which prompted this American to ask "are you drunk sir?" I just wish I had replied 'does Rose Kennedy have a black dress?'

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No no no..totally inappropriate..in very poor taste..i'm sure you're better than that :(

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Noel Coward was, amongst others, well known for quips and put-downs. When asked who the man sitting next to the huge Queen of Tonga in the coronation coach was, replied "her lunch".

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I don't know, though I did have a moment of of spontaneous sarcasm many years ago when courting the first Mrs C. I was introduced to her anunt who happened to be only about 3 years older than me. Her remark was "hello gorgeous where have you been all my life?" The only reply I could think of was "for the first three years of it not even born." She commented that with friends like me who needed enemies.
Other than that I wish I'd been the person who came up with my sig.

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Years ago, on holiday in Hong Kong, an elderly American couple asked me where in England I came from, and when I told them Lincoln one of them replied rather condescendingly "Why, I've never even heard of that." "Really?" says I, "but you named one of your Presidents after it." Never bothered me for the rest of the tour...

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Things you wished you had said.

To a gent who stood holding my hand as a child at the cenotaph,who would hug me in public ,even in my twenties.And held my hand all the way through my father's funeral.

Thank you.

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Years ago, on holiday in Hong Kong, an elderly American couple asked me where in England I came from, and when I told them Lincoln one of them replied rather condescendingly "Why, I've never even heard of that." "Really?" says I, "but you named one of your Presidents after it." Never bothered me for the rest of the tour...

Brilliant.

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To a gent who stood holding my hand as a child at the cenotaph,who would hug me in public ,even in my twenties.And held my hand all the way through my father's funeral.

Thank you.

Touching.

Who was the gent?

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Candidate for a new thread, 'Things you wish you hadn't said' the BBC TV reporter has just said about the Roman Catholic sex scandal meeting in Rome today that they were going to get 'to the bottom of it.':o

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I really enjoy this type of innocent double entendre. It might be worthy of a new thread.

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Double entendre is absolutely correct as the reporter repeated the phrase with a straight face!:D

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Rex 'Moose' Mossop was an ex dual code rugby international who went on to become a famous Rugby Leaugue commentator. Some famous Mossopism's -

"I'm sick of having male genitals rammed down my throat" Rex Mossop on the nude beach near Manly and people walking to and from their cars with nothing on. He became infamous for performing citizens arrests on them.

"If this game ever takes over from rugby league you can f*ck me in Pitt St." What League legend Rex Mossop said to Johnny Warren during a break in an England v Australia soccer match in the 1980s.

"if I keep getting Boyd and O'Grady mixed up, it's because they look alike, especially around the head"

One more from Rugby League-

"Rugby League is a simple game played by simple people. Rugby Union is a complex game played by w*nkers." Laurie Daley, ex Australian League captain.

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I wish I could have told my mother I loved her, instead we had a massive argument. She went off, next thing she was found drowned in a river.:( Life is a bitch.

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Anna that sucks, sorry to hear that.

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It's ok it was 17 years ago:) but it taught me a big lesson in life.

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i love you, thankyou for everything and goodbye, to my grandad who died 9 years ago this july and to my Nan who died last year

sorry to hear that aswell Anna