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I have always liked "He is a self-made man and worships his creator".
A previous employer made a point of telling everyone he met that he was a self-made man, we his employees agreed and told everyone that mentioned it that it was true "as you can tell by the workmanship".
Lee Marvin had a good line in one his Westerns. When the Ralph Bellamy character called him "You bastard!" he responded "An accident of birth � but you, sir, are a self-made man."
"Good enough" isn't.Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.
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I have always liked "He is a self-made man and worships his creator".
A previous employer made a point of telling everyone he met that he was a self-made man, we his employees agreed and told everyone that mentioned it that it was true "as you can tell by the workmanship".
Lee Marvin had a good line in one his Westerns. When the Ralph Bellamy character called him "You bastard!" he responded "An accident of birth � but you, sir, are a self-made man."
In "The Professionals" .
If we live long enough, we all have regrets. But the ones that nag at us the most are the ones in which we know we had a choice. Doug
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Phuuck you and the horse you rode in on
This one doesn't belong on a list of clever put downs.
Needs work.
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Phuuck you and the horse you rode in on
This one doesn't belong on a list of clever put downs.
Needs work.
Y'gotta realize that in some quarters,
crude equals "wit."
"Good enough" isn't.Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.
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Phuuck you and the horse you rode in on
This one doesn't belong on a list of clever put downs.
Needs work.
Subtlety is often under rated.
As a slight improvement, I humbly submit:
John
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I can think of one old one, source unknown "Two fries short of a Happy Meal" Mine: "dumb as a board" One I'll also claim, said to a colleague who was making a ridiculous argument, "Bob, I never saw anyone work so hard at being mediocre"
"...the designer of the .270 Ingwe cartridge!..."
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"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.." - Mae West.
No, no it should read:
"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the after birth.." - Mae West. Used that describing and ex neighbor to his face!!!!
de 73's Archie - W7ACT
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One of my writers got a thoroughly asinine question from a reader. I still chuckle at the way that he began his answer � "I had to read your letter three times to be sure that you're serious."
"Good enough" isn't.Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.
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Phuuck you and the White Horse you rode across the Rio Grandee on!
There I Fixed it for you, used that one to tell a self apposed wet back who thought he had authority over me on a job I was doing.
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"Nice talking to you, come back when you can't stay so long."
Fight fire, save lives, laugh in the face of danger. Stupid always finds a way.
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He gave up reading because it chapped his lips.
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Phuuck you and the horse you rode in on
This one doesn't belong on a list of clever put downs.
Needs work.
Fya-thyrio...sound like cussing in Greek.
I am a conservative with a lowercase "c".
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We all know the first 1/2 of this one, but I added the last- "Opinions are like buttholes, everybody has one, but they don't all pass the smell test"
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack LOL
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Always liked this one...
VIDEO
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Putdown that you need to be a high-power silhouette shooter to get. "he's a few grains short of a ram load" If you don't get it that's okay, you are probably not a high-power silhouette shooter. drover
223 Rem, my favorite cartridge - you can't argue with truckloads of dead PD's and gophers. 24hourcampfire.com - The site where there is a problem for every solution.
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"can I help you out?" "Yes, please!" "Okay,which way did you come in?" "He sets low expectations for himself and fails to meet them."
Gunnery, gunnery, gunnery. Hit the target, all else is twaddle!
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"You're like public school on weekends, no class"
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The best part of you ran down your mothers leg. KC
You can easily vote your way in to Socialism; but you'll have to shoot your way out.
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Putdown that you need to be a high-power silhouette shooter to get. "he's a few grains short of a ram load" If you don't get it that's okay, you are probably not a high-power silhouette shooter. drover
Not a sil shooter, but I got it, but had never heard it before. Might have to retain that for future use on my highpower accomplices... few grains short of a 1000 yard load...
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