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Only in ‘Straya

Posted by George Brown on 15/09/2015
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WARNING – EXPLETIVES USED IN THIS YOUTUBE CLIP (BY THE BIRD)

It remains unclear how the bird learnt the words f*** or c***, or indeed how to use the two together as a compound insult. It doesn’t matter. Just enjoy this reality.

“Straya — where even the animals swear enough to make your mum’s ears turn red.”

The King is dead. Long live the King!

Posted by George Brown on 15/09/2015
Posted in: Democracy, Parliament, Politics. Tagged: Australia, parliament, Prime Minister, Turnbull. Leave a comment
Famous first words

Famous first words

Humble Moon

The Humble Moon Rises. Cartoon: The Newcastle Herald 15/09/2015

This how the Sydney Daily Telegraph saw Mr Turnbull’s election

Smiling Assassin

Smiling Assassin

Turnbull’s Prime Ministerial Challenge

Posted by George Brown on 15/09/2015
Posted in: Democracy, Government, Legislation, News, Opinion, Parliament, Politics. Tagged: Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, Prime Minister, Tony Abbott. Leave a comment

Malcolm Turnbull speaks during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra this afternoon.© AAP Image/Lukas Coch Malcolm Turnbull speaks during a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra this afternoon. Malcolm Turnbull has launched a leadership challenge against Prime Minister Tony Abbott.

The Government is in turmoil as the both camps count the numbers to see whether Mr Turnbull has enough support to topple Tony Abbott.

Mr Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop met with the Prime Minister to request the leadership ballot earlier today.

Mr Turnbull resigned from Cabinet and then called a snap 4pm media conference to confirm his decision.

“A little while ago I met with the Prime Minister and advised him that I would be challenging him for the leadership of the Liberal Party,” Mr Turnbull said.

“Now this is not a decision that anyone could take lightly. I have consulted with many, many colleagues, many Australians, many of our supporters in every walk of life.”

Mr Turnbull said he had been under sustained pressure to put his name forward.

“This course of action has been urged on me by many people over a long period of time.

“It is clear enough that the Government is not successful in providing the economic leadership that we need. It is not the fault of individual ministers.

“Ultimately, the Prime Minister has not been capable of providing the economic leadership our nation needs. He has not been capable of providing the economic confidence that business needs.

“Now we are living as Australians in the most exciting time. The big economic changes that we’re living through here and around the world offer enormous challenges and enormous opportunities.”

‘We need advocacy, not slogans’

Mr Turnbull identified the Prime Minister’s approach to the job as a main concern.

“We need a different style of leadership,” he said.

“We need a style of leadership that explains those challenges and opportunities, explains the challenges and how to seize the opportunities.

“A style of leadership that respects the people’s intelligence, that explains these complex issues and then sets out the course of action we believe we should take and makes a case for it.

“We need advocacy, not slogans. We need to respect the intelligence of the Australian people.

“The only way we can ensure that we remain a high wage, generous social welfare net, first world society is if we have outstanding economic leadership, if we have strong business confidence.

“That is what we in the Liberal Party are bound to deliver and it’s what I am committed to deliver if the partyroom gives me their support as leader of the party.”

Just hours earlier, Mr Abbott dismissed leadership speculation during a media event in South Australia.

“I just am not going to get caught up in Canberra gossip, I’m not going to play Canberra games,” he said.

“I know that sometimes the media particularly like to play the Canberra game, but I’m not going to get involved with it.

“I’m just not going to chase all of these rabbits down all of the burrows that you are inviting me to go down, I’m just not going to play the Canberra games.”

A number of senior ministers had foreshadowed the likelihood of leadership challenge before the end of the year.

“And this time I think they will get him,” one minister said.

Mr Turnbull was opposition leader before he was unseated by Mr Abbott.

Turnbull admits timing not ideal

Mr Turnbull has acknowledged the timing of his announcement is “far from ideal”.

The Canning by-election will be held this Saturday, after the death of popular Liberal MP Don Randall.

“But regrettably, there are few occasions that are entirely ideal for tough calls and tough decisions like this,” Mr Turnbull said.

“The alternative if we were to wait and this issue, these problems were to roll on and on and on is we will get no clear air.

“We have to make a change for our country’s sake, for the Government’s sake, for the party’s sake.

“From a practical point of view a change of leadership would improve our prospects in Canning, although I’m very confident with the outstanding candidate we have that we will be successful.”

Roy throws support behind Turnbull

Queensland MP Wyatt Roy is one of the first Government MPs to show his hand, confirming he will support Mr Turnbull in a leadership challenge.

“I will be backing Malcolm Turnbull,” he told 612 ABC Brisbane.

“These are not decisions that people come to lightly but as Malcolm pointed out in his press conference, modern politics is very different to how it has been practised in the past.

“The reason I came into politics was because I wanted to change the country for the better.

Mr Roy said he wanted his Government to create meaningful reforms and the Coalition needed to communicate its message differently.

He said he would back Ms Bishop to remain as deputy but did not believe there would be a ballot for that position.

Source; msn.com

Start Cola earlier?

Posted by George Brown on 13/09/2015
Posted in: Advertising, businees, Health, History, Humour, Media. Leave a comment

At first glance, this appears to be a vintage ad by the “Soda Pop Board of America” extolling the virtues of drinking cola at an early age. It’s been circulating around the internet for quite a while, during which time many sites have angrily responded to the claims made in the ad.

For instance, the Queen Anne Chiropractic Center declared that the ad demonstrates “just how wicked the Mad Men of yesteryear were.” The parenting blog babble.com wrote: “We all know that, on occasion, advertisements can offer some fairly crappy advice. Back in the day, though, ads had no shame.” And NaturalNews.com offered the ad as evidence that, “Soda companies, much like drug companies, have relentlessly tried to convince parents that forcing their products onto their children is a smart thing to do.”

I could go on, but I’ll cut to the chase: the ad isn’t real. It’s just a very successful vintage-ad parody created in 2002 by RJ White, who explains its full provenance thus:

About seven or eight years ago, I made this fake ad, exhorting parents to give soda to their babies. It was done on a bored afternoon when J.D. Ryznar asked for someone to make that very specific thing on his livejournal. I whipped it together, posted it to the web, joke over.

 A couple of years later- it started showing up online, in those weird lists that pop up every so often with a “Oh man, ads sure were strange back then, weren’t they?” theme. Thing is, those ads are largely real and mine is not and very obviously so.

White links to the original livejournal post that inspired him to create the ad. His ad seems to be currently enjoying a fresh wave of popularity thanks to tumblr and pinterest which are presenting it to new audiences, many of whom (once again) seem to be accepting it at face value as a genuine vintage ad.

The Soda Pop Board of America does not exist, and neither does the address listed on the ad.

‘Great Escape’ survivor Paul Royle dies in Perth aged 101

Posted by George Brown on 13/09/2015
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Former RAF pilot was the penultimate surviving member of a group of 76 prisoners who escaped a Nazi prison camp in Poland during second world war

Paul Royle

Australian Paul Royle made it through a 110m long tunnel to escape his Nazi captors in 1944.

 

The penultimate surviving member of a group of allied soldiers who carried out “the Great Escape”, the famous mass breakout from a Nazi prison camp in the second world war, has died in Perth at the age of 101.

Australian Paul Royle, a former RAF pilot who was one of 76 prisoners who made it through a 110m long tunnel to escape their captors in Poland in 1944, passed away on Sunday.

Royle’s son Gordon told Daily Mail Australia that his death meant that former squadron leader Dick Churchill, from Devon in the UK, was “the last survivor”.

Of 73 airmen who were recaptured, Royle and Churchill were among just 23 who were spared execution by a firing squad reportedly acting on the orders of Adolf Hitler.

The story of the breakout was first portrayed by a fellow prisoner at the Stalag Luft III war camp, the Australian fighter pilot Paul Brickhill, in his book The Great Escape.

Royle has spoken of his intense dislike of the 1963 Hollywood film of the same name, telling ABC last year this was “because there were no motorbikes … and the Americans weren’t there”.

A day after emerging from the tunnel to the sight of a snowy pine forest, Royle and his British comrade Edgar Humphreys were recaptured then brutally interrogated by Nazi officers.

Royle remained mystified as to why Humphreys and other were subsequently killed and he was not.
“Edgar and myself were together when we were recaptured and behaved in the same manner,” he told Air Force News in 2004.

“There’s no reason why one should live and not the other. Rationality didn’t come into it. I haven’t a clue as to why I wasn’t chosen.”

The former flight lieutenant had also detailed his role in the months-long escape plot, which included surreptitiously disposing of soil dug from the tunnel through his trousers under plain sight of guards in the prison yard.

“You’d have to be very careful because the soil from the tunnel was a different colour from the soil on the surface mostly, and you would get a suitable place to put it where there was similar soil,” he told ABC.

Source The Guardian

Christian Charity

Posted by George Brown on 13/09/2015
Posted in: Charity, Chritianity, Culture, Democracy, Government, Humanity, Islam. Tagged: Afghanistan, Australia, Europe, Refugees, Syria. Leave a comment
Christian Charity by Tidemann

Christian Charity by Tiedemann

Let’s be honest this frenzy of “compassion” for Syrians can make Australia even less safe.

The Abbott Government said yesterday it would take in an extra 12,000 Syrian refugees.

Know two things about this response to the invasion of Europe by these “refugees” from the Third World — there are now more than 4,000 people every day and half of them claiming to be Syrians.

First, Australia’s intake will not stop this invasion. No, the word has spread to as far as Nigeria and Bangladesh that Europe’s fences are down. It has been suggested that Iraqi airlines have even had to put on an extra three flights a day to Istanbul to deposit more Iraqis on the edge of Europe and its riches.

Look at the “refugees” you see crashing through Europe’s weak borders, or check the statistics of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Is it normal for 72 per cent of “refugees” from war to be men — and predominantly young, fit men you might expect to defend their country rather than flee it?  And consider: how many relatives will they later send for? So, no, Europe’s crisis will continue until it, too, turns back the boats. What checks are being carried out to ensure these refugees are actually from Syria?

But, second: in making this gesture, we risk making Australia even less safe.

Amazingly, even the people loudly demanding we take in more Syrian Muslims implicitly concede that danger. Sydney Islamic leader Ahmed Kilani warned that favouring Christian refugees over Muslim risked more terrorism here. Is that a threat?

“The Government keeps saying it is worried about people being radicalised. What do you think young Muslims are going to think when they see who can come in and who can’t?”

Maher Mughrabi, foreign editor of The Age, said the ominous same.

“Arab communities of this country are already bitterly divided by this (Syrian) conflict and the Government’s response to it.”

“If Muslims here feel that the blood of their brothers and sisters in Syria does not cry out as loudly as that of other communities, I worry about the long-term consequences.”  Is that a warning or a threat?

Or take Australia’s Anglican Primate, Archbishop Philip Freier. He wants 10,000 more Syrian refugees, but advises against bombing the Islamic State for fear that Muslims here could launch an “asymmetrical response” — a terrorist attack. Once such people assured us there were too few jihadists to worry about. Now they warn there are too many to offend.

Oh, and Australia should import potentially more?

True, Prime Minister Tony Abbott yesterday winked that he will take only Syrian refugees from “very persecuted minorities” — code for Christians. Yet even Abbott dared not say so openly. In fact, he flinched at the first hostile question at his press conference, saying he was also thinking of “Muslim minorities”.

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The bottom line is that a country should be able to pick and choose who they want to enter their borders and who they don’t. How well are these refugees going to assimilate into the lifestyle of their adoptive country? The vocal minority (of any viewpoint) or the media should not dictate immigration policy to elected governments. The UK prevents the entry of “refugees” from France and yet this passes almost without comment, yet Hungary and Macedonia are subject to media wrath for doing exactly the same thing.

But if the polls are right, Labor will next year form government and take over this immigration program and its foreign affairs spokeswoman, Tanya Plibersek, insists the “basis of our policy should not discriminate on religion or ethnicity or gender”.

Has Labor learned nothing from the Fraser government’s blunder in responding with “compassion” to Lebanon’s civil war in the 1970s?

Then, too, government ministers privately urged prime minister Malcolm Fraser to accept only Christian refugees, given how Lebanese Christians had thrived here. Fraser ignored them and nearly 20,000 Lebanese Muslims, many from poor and tribal areas, soon came instead.

The consequences are with us today. True, most are good citizens, but gun crime today is rife in Sydney suburbs with large Lebanese populations. Crime rates are high.

More seriously, of the 21 Australians jailed for terrorism offences, at least four were born in Lebanon and seven were born to Lebanese families.

Let’s not make the same mistakes all over again.

Australia’s political class has for years been too dishonest to admit that when you import people, you import their culture. People importing their culture is fine, but all too often their hatreds come with them.

But our politicians must ask pragmatic questions when deciding which of the millions of the world’s refugees to help.

Who will make best use of our help by fitting in? And who will best repay our charity by enriching Australia, not hurting it? You can’t make such guesses without considering culture and religion — factors that influence the behaviour of the refugees’ future children, too. A study in the UK has suggested that immigrant’s children are more likely to radicalised. They feel that they neither fit the lifestyle of their home or adopted country and are easily swayed by persuasive and radical argument. However, you cannot refuse to offer assistance to people for fear of what their children “might” do!

I know, this makes a politician seem mean and “racist”, but what is their highest duty? To merely seem good, or to protect Australia’s best interests?

Source: Andrew Bolt, The Daily Telegraph (as edited)

Sgt Alexander Blackman – An alternate view

Posted by George Brown on 13/09/2015
Posted in: army, Crime, Democracy, Government, Law, Legal. Tagged: Afghanistan, Helmand province, Royal Marines. Leave a comment

Sgt Alexander Blackman was filmed by a colleague carrying out the killing in Helmand. MoD/PA

Sergeant Alexander Blackman, formerly of the Royal Marines, is launching a new appeal against his sentence for murdering an unarmed Afghan “insurgent” in 2011. He carried out the killing while inadvertently being recorded by a comrade’s helmet-mounted camera. He quoted Hamlet as he did it.

The campaign on his behalf has gathered considerable steam over the years. It is, in my opinion, based on a number of terrible arguments and hijacks public angst over the very real hardships faced by soldiers and veterans throughout recent British history.

“There you are, shuffle off this mortal coil, you c*nt. It’s nothing you wouldn’t do to us,” he quipped in the grainy video around which his trial hinged.

The recording of the murder, even in the limited form in which it has been made available to the public, is shocking. Because of its inhuman content, but also because of the apparently casual manner in which the wounded man was dispatched. On its own merit Blackman’s conviction is uncontroversial, an open and shut case.

Marine A, as he was known during the trial, was a highly trained, highly experienced senior NCO in one of the world’s foremost infantry units. The fact is he simply cannot have been unaware of the laws of war when he pulled the trigger with a Shakespearean flourish.

The arguments put for his release or pardon have, from the off, been so utterly ridiculous that I resent having to destroy them over and over again.

For example, the wretched idea that he is a hero, that his heroism should absolve him, or that all soldiers, sailors and airmen are somehow heroes and therefore should all be exempt from the law is so flaccid that I should not need to bring it up. Simply put, it is the kind of arguments that one would only expect to hear from child.

Similarly, while I agree with his supporters that Blackman had been under pressure, that he had endured a brutal tour and that he was likely afflicted by post-traumatic stress, it is space cadet territory to suggest any of these factors could feasibly clear him of murder.

Even Blackman’s new argument that this was a “split second decision” gone wrong is dubious. Stressed, he clearly was, but he was obviously capable of reason and logic enough to urge his underlings to keep quiet because he had just broken the Geneva Convention.

Likewise the argument that he is a scapegoat of the establishment (which seems to love nothing more than a spot of extrajudicial killing, if recent drone strikes are taken into account) cannot be taken seriously given that various members of said establishment appear to be fully behind him.

In fact, his chief celebrity backer Frederick Forsythe boasted only recently of his Cold War work for MI6. Forsythe is many things, including a writer of decent thrillers, but he is hardly anti-establishment.

Likewise, Blackman has enjoyed the support of renowned establishment yes-man former colonel Richard Kemp, who commanded of British forces in Afghanistan in the early stages of the occupation, before it all got hairy.

I agree with parts of his latest statements from jail. “I had been sent to a brutal battlefield to fight for my country in an unpopular war,” he says.  All true, in my opinion. A pointless, failed, imperial war driven by hubris and arrogance, and conducted to the detriment of the Afghan people, I’d add.

But there is something more at play here, and there is a hint of truth in his complaint, a truth which is being badly abused in an attempt to get the 41-year old soldier released.

They are playing on the idea of the British soldier as a victim, and while Blackman does not qualify in this case, he and many other veterans do in any number of ways.

The idea has weight. British soldiers have always been, and continue to be, stitched up by those who manage them.

The briefest glance through the history books will tell you that the many of the ‘heroes’ of battles as diverse as Waterloo, Rorke’s Drift and the Somme came home to poverty, hardship, mental breakdown and destitution.

This betrayal is expressed today through the thousands of homeless veterans on our streets and a recent spike of veteran suicides. That military men and women are betrayed by their masters is not in question, but as far as Alexander Blackman’s murder conviction goes he is no victim. He is a perpetrator.

Source: Joe Glenton, The Independent

Sgt Alexander Blackman – Judgement Unsafe?

Posted by George Brown on 13/09/2015
Posted in: army, Crime, Defence, Democracy, Law, Legal. Tagged: Afgahanistan, Battle fatigue, Helmand province, Military Law, Royal Marines, Sgt Blackman. Leave a comment
Alexander Blackman

Image copyright PA Image caption Sergeant Alexander Blackman was convicted of murder at a court martial in 2013

A campaign has been launched to review the case of a Royal Marine jailed for life for killing a Taliban insurgent.

Sergeant Alexander Blackman was convicted of murdering the injured captive in Afghanistan but his supporters say it was manslaughter.

Author and campaigner Frederick Forsyth said the court martial that convicted Blackman “stank from top to bottom”.

Joshua Rozenberg, who presents Radio 4’s Law in Action, said it would be “an uphill struggle” to reopen the case.

A new legal team – led by Jonathan Goldberg QC – is seeking a review, arguing that he should have been convicted of the lesser charge of manslaughter.

Blackman, of Taunton, Somerset, was convicted in 2013 and lost an appeal in May last year, but his 10-year minimum term was reduced to eight years.

‘Battle fatigue’

Blackman’s wife Claire told the Daily Mail: “The fact that he is now serving a life sentence for killing a dying Taliban insurgent is just wrong, this was war.

“Had the roles been reversed that man would have tortured my husband before killing him.

“We will not give up the fight to bring Al home.”

Mr Forsyth, who is leading the campaign, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that the evidence that Blackman was “nearly feral with exhaustion” was not produced at court.

“There is a very, very clear case that you can get a fighting man so tired, so consumed by battle fatigue and combat stress that he is hardly even thinking straight and there is provision in British law for that,” he said.

He claimed that at the end of Blackman’s trial, all seven members of the jury “put their caps on and saluted him.”

“Honourable men do not salute a perjurer and a murderer”, he said.

Mr Forsyth said the verdict had been a five to two majority, but Mr Rozenberg said the argument that it was unfair to have a majority verdict was dismissed so “it would be hard to overturn that”.

Campaigners hope the Criminal Cases Review Commission, which investigates suspected miscarriages of justice, will look at Blackman’s case.

Commission spokeswoman Sally Berlin said the organisation has yet to receive an application from the campaigners or legal team, but if one is submitted it will consider the case.

Mr Goldberg said there are three routes to a manslaughter verdict including loss of control, unlawful act manslaughter and diminished responsibility and he said all could be argued.

Mr Goldberg said Blackman suffered from battlefield stress syndrome and this was not presented to “any of the previous courts” as grounds for reducing murder to manslaughter “as we think it should have been”.

He said if Blackman had been convicted of manslaughter he may not have been jailed.

‘A scapegoat’

The killing, on 15 September 2011, took place after a patrol base in Helmand province came under fire from two insurgents.

One of the attackers was seriously injured by gunfire from an Apache helicopter sent to provide air support and the marines found him in a field.

Footage from another marine’s helmet-mounted camera showed Blackman shooting the Afghan prisoner in the chest with a 9mm pistol.

Blackman told him: “There you are. Shuffle off this mortal coil.”

The court martial board in Bulford, Wiltshire, found Blackman guilty of murdering the insurgent. Two other marines were acquitted.

It was the first time a member of the British armed forces had faced a murder charge in relation to the conflict in Afghanistan, which began in 2001.

Blackman was also “dismissed with disgrace” from the Royal Marines. He had served with distinction for 15 years, including tours of Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland.

Blackman had denied murder, claiming he believed the victim was already dead and that he was taking his anger out on the corpse.

A Ministry of Defence spokesperson said: “We respect the authority and decision of the court.”

Julia Quenzler drawing of Sergeant Blackman being sentenced

Copyright Julia Quenzler Image caption Blackman’s 10-year minimum term was reduced to eight years on appeal

Image copyright Julia Quenzler

Image caption Blackman’s 10-year minimum term was reduced to eight years on appeal

The Mail claims crucial evidence was deliberately withheld from the original court martial and says it will reveal “extraordinary and compelling new evidence” in the “coming days”.

The paper reports that it has seen confidential papers which claim panel members who convicted Blackman were “deliberately kept in the dark”.

The paper claims the court martial was never given evidence of alleged operational failings by Blackman’s commanders, which meant his troop was “isolated, under-manned, under-resourced and under daily Taliban assault”.

All of this was “directly affecting his state of mind at the time of the shooting”, which led to Blackman not receiving a fair trial, it is claimed.

Blackman, 41, told the Mail: “I made a split-second mistake, but I had been sent to a brutal battlefield to fight a war for my country.

“At the end of my trial, the establishment lined up to portray me as evil, because it suited them… to show the world how politically correct we are.

“I have been made a scapegoat.”

Blackman’s case is due to be discussed in the House of Commons on 16 September.

Source: BBC News

Canada’s Best Looking Flag Contest

Posted by George Brown on 10/09/2015
Posted in: Uncategorized. Tagged: Macedonia, United Kingdom. Leave a comment
The United Kingdom takes on Macedonia in the final of our Best-Looking Flag tournament.

The United Kingdom takes on Macedonia in the final of our Best-Looking Flag tournament.

Oh, Canada.

The home flag has crashed out of our Best-Looking Flag tournament, the victim of a well-organized rally by Macedonia.

Macedonia tallied a remarkable 2,741 votes to Canada’s 783 in the semi-finals, and must now be considered the favourite heading into the final against the United Kingdom.

mac can Knockout tournament: Its Macedonia vs. United Kingdom for Best Looking Flag

The Union Jack scored an impressive 1,326-607 win over Germany in the other semi-final.

gbr ger Knockout tournament: Its Macedonia vs. United Kingdom for Best Looking Flag

Since late January, we have been relying on your votes to help us determine the world’s best-looking flag in a knockout tournament that started with 64 flags. We chose our entrants based on the countries of ethnic origin most cited by Canadian households in the 2011 National Household Survey. We will be declaring a winner in time for Flag Day, Feb. 15. Will it be Macedonia or the United Kingdom?

Final

When the final was held, this was the result:

Macedonia  93.89%  (13,190 votes)

  

United Kingdom  6.11%  (858 votes)  

Total Votes: 14,048

Congratulations to Macedonia!
Source: The Province

 

Mae West

Posted by George Brown on 27/08/2015
Posted in: Culture, Entertainment, Humour, Media, Uncategorized, Views. Tagged: entertainment, Mae West, Vaudviolle. Leave a comment
Mae West, 1937

Mae West, 1937

Mary Jane “Mae” West (August 17, 1893 – November 22, 1980) was an American actress, singer, playwright, screenwriter, and sex symbol whose entertainment career spanned seven decades.

Known for her bawdy double entendres West made a name for herself in vaudeville and on the stage in New York City before moving to Hollywood to become a comedienne, actress, and writer in the motion picture industry.

She was one of the more controversial movie stars of her day, and encountered many problems, including censorship. When her cinematic career ended, she continued to perform in Las Vegas and in the United Kingdom, and on radio and television, and to record rock and roll albums. Asked about the various efforts to impede her career, West replied: “I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.”

Mae West’s Classic Lines

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

“There are no good girls gone wrong – just bad girls found out.”

“I feel like a million tonight—but only one at a time”

“I generally avoid temptation unless I can’t resist it.”

“Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can’t figure out what from.”

“I wrote the story myself. It’s about a girl who lost her reputation and never missed it.”

“Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.”

“Good sex is like good bridge. If you don’t have a good partner, you’d better have a good hand.”

“When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better.”

“I’ll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.”

“I’m single because I was born that way.”

“I’m no model lady. A model’s just an imitation of the real thing.”

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

“Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.”

“Don’t cry for a man who’s left you–the next one may fall for your smile.”

“It’s not the men in your life that matters; it’s the life in your men.”

“A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.”

“Marriage is a fine institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.”

“Sex is an emotion in motion.”

“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.”

“Cultivate your curves – they may be dangerous but they won’t be avoided.”

“I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.”

“I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.”

“Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.”

“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful!”

“It is better to be looked over than overlooked.”

“I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.”

“Don’t keep a man guessing too long – he’s sure to find the answer somewhere else”

“Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.”

“Women like a man with a past, but they prefer a man with a present.”

“Love thy neighbour — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier.”

“Look your best – who said love is blind? ”

“He who hesitates is a damned fool.”

“You are never too old to become younger!”

“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”

“A woman in love can’t be reasonable–or she probably wouldn’t be in love.”

“Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”

“To err is human – but it feels divine.”

“I have found men who didn’t know how to kiss. I’ve always found time to teach them.”

“If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!”

“Men are my hobby; if I ever got married I’d have to give it up.”

“Good women are no fun… The only good woman I can recall in history was Betsy Ross. And all she ever made was a flag.”

“Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.”

“The curve is more powerful than the sword.”

“I’ve no time for broads who want to rule the world alone. Without men, who’d do up the zipper on the back of your dress?

When women go wrong, men go right after them.”

“Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.”

“Keep a diary and one day it’ll keep you.”

“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”

“I’ve been things and seen places.”

“Are you trying to show contempt for this court? I was doin’ my best to hide it.”

“She’s the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.”

“The score never interested me, only the game.”

“Women with pasts interest men because they hope history will repeat itself.”

“I only read biographies, metaphysics and psychology. I can dream up my own fiction.”

“I’m a woman of very few words, but lots of action.”

“An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.”

“One more drink and I’ll be under the host.”

“I made myself platinum, but I was born a dirty blonde.”

“Everyone has the right to run his own life- even if you’re heading for a crash. What I’m against is blind flying.”

“A man’s kiss is his signature.”

“Love isn’t an emotion or an instinct – it’s an art.”

“Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.”

“No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.”

“I see you’re a man with ideals. ‘I’d better be going before you’ve still got them.”

“I’ve been in more laps than a napkin.”

“Don’t marry a man to reform him – that’s what reform schools are for.”

“It’s all right for a perfect stranger to kiss your hand as long as he’s perfect.”

“I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they’re smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find a person who they think holds the key to their happiness-the only key to their happiness… My work has always been my greatest happiness”

“The best way to hold a man is in your arms.”

“You may admire a girl’s curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.”

“Goodness, what beautiful diamonds!’ ‘Goodness had nothing to do with it’.”

“Life is short. break the rules forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile”

“I didn’t discover curves; I only uncovered them.”

“It isn’t what I do, but how I do it. It isn’t what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.”

“A good man is hard to find. A hard man is good to find.”

“Men are like linoleum floors. Lay ’em right and you can walk all over them for years.”

“Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I’m tired.”

“My goodness had nothing to do with it.”

“You can do what you want, but saving love doesn’t bring any interest.”

“I only like two kinds of men, domestic and imported.”

“Men are all alike – except the one you’ve met who’s different.”

“If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.”

““A man in the house is worth two on the street.”

“You certainly know the way to a man’s heart.” “ Funny, too, ’cause I don’t know how to cook.”

“Brains are an asset, if you hide them.”

“When in doubt, take a bath…”

“I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor, and rich is better.”

“If I can’t get a man with a million dollars, I’ll get a million men with one dollar.”

“What’s the good of resisting temptation? There’ll always be more.”

“Come up sometime, and see me”

“I see a man in your life.” “What, just the one!”

“Aren’t you forgetting you’re married?” “I’m doing my best!”

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