TOO MUCH MONKEY BUSINESS: The Elvis Forum

Quote of the Day - 17th February:

"To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother."



Barry Humphries
(02/17/1934 – )
Australian writer, actor

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Don't look at me................... I don't know what he means by that...........................

Quote of the Day - 18th February:

"What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards."


Milos Forman
(02/18/1932 – )
Czech director

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I talk to myself all the time.....................

Quote of the Day - 19th February:

"I wouldn't wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface.
If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it."



Derek Jarman
(01/31/1942 – 02/19/1994)
English filmmaker

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Well there was Blondie, Toyah, Human League....................

Quote of the Day - 20th February:

"Lux and I have always been reckless and sought out thrills, taken risks, probably blown our minds in certain pursuits.
It's only from living this way that we come up with this stuff."


Poison Ivy Rorschach
(02/20/1953 – )
US guitarist (Cramps)

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And, as she is 59 today:

Happy Birthday, Ivy !

Quote of the Day - 21st February:

"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them."


Benedict Spinoza
(11/24/1632 – 02/21/1677)
Dutch philosopher

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Wise words from so long ago....................

Wise men, those Dutch.

Quote of the Day - 22nd February:

"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."


Robert Baden-Powell
(02/22/1857 – 01/08/1941)
English military, Boy Scouts founder

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All circumstances ?

Bit tricky during a visit to the dentist, or attending a funeral....................

Quote of the Day - 23rd February:

"If any of you cry at my funeral, I'll never speak to you again!"



Stan Laurel
(06/16/1890 – 02/23/1965)
English comic, actor

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And he didn't............

Did he speak to the ones that didn't cry?

I don't reckon he did much speaking to anybody.....................

Quote of the Day - 24th February:

"The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand."


George Augustus Moore
(02/24/1852 – 01/21/1933)
Irish writer

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I've also heard it put as "they don't take part in the battle, but come out afterwards & shoot the wounded !"

Quote of the Day - 25th February:

"When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished."


Pierre Auguste Renoir
(02/25/1841 – 12/17/1919)
French artist

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Bit kinky !

Most artists use canvas.......................

Quote of the Day - 26th February:

"A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D.
Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B."


"Fats" Domino
(02/26/1928 – )
US singer/pianist

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And, as it's his 84th Birthday today:

Happy Birthday, Fats !

Quote of the Day - 27th February:

"All political parties die at last swallowing their own lies."


John Arbuthnot
(04/29/1667 – 02/27/1745)
Scottish physician, scientist, mathematician

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When a quotation is 'right' - it doesn't 'age' does it ?

Quote of the Day - 28th February:

"I hate pretty-looking boys.
I'd rather have a guy with a potbelly than one who's in the gym all the time and watches what he eats."


Ali Larter
(02/28/1976 – )
US actor

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What an intelligent young woman !

Not as much fun though.

Quote of the Day - 29th February:

"They don't make 'em too big for this business."


Tempest Storm
(02/29/1928 – )
US stripper

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And, as it's her 84th birthday today:

Happy Birthday, Tempest !


Tempest Storm had a brief fling with Elvis in '56.

Quote of the Day - 1st March:

"If this is dying, then I don't think much of it."


Lytton Giles Strachey
(03/01/1880 – 01/21/1932)
English biographer, last words?

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Well, I don't think we're meant to exactly enjoy it, are we ?

Quote of the Day - 2nd March:

"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor."


Jennifer Jones
(03/02/1919 – 12/17/2009)
US actor

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It must help.

It would even help more if other people would have a sense of humor too.
A lot of times people do not understand someone else's sense of humor.

Yes, for everyone who 'gets' a joke, there's another who doesn't, & often a third who feels offended.................

Is this about the Englishman, Scotsman and Irishman? I think I've heard it.

I would never indulge in humour that was in any way 'racist'.............................. [cough]

You need to take something for that cough.