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| The Duchess smashed the bottle against the bow and amid the applause of the crowd she slid on her greasy bottom into the sea.
Notes: A Belfast newspaper reported on the launching of an aircraft carrier and recorded: |
| Half the council are crooks, but was asked to retract it. The following week it ran the heading: Half the council are NOT crooks.
Notes: A newspaper in Ireland published the headline: |
| John F. Kennedy
We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. |
| Aer Lingus spokesman
What we are doing is in the interest of everybody, bar possibly the consumer. |
| Jonathan Swift
There is in every cook's opinion No savory dish without an onion. But lest your kissing should be spoiled, The onion must be thoroughly boiled. |
| Do we now? came New York Mayor Al Smith's reply.
Notes: Why do you Irish always answer a question with a question? asked President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| Robert Lynd
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. |
| And isn't he as slow as a wet week!
Notes: Said the Kerry farmer of a dim-witted neighbor: |
| William Butler Yeats
The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober. |
| George Bernard Shaw
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. |
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