Thought for Today - 11 September

[AlanHo]

Some people who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't got what they want that they really don't want it.

--Ogden Nash

[andsome]

Too true. :D

[artist]

I suppose.....................

[Watchful]

Yes, I know those people well; loaded but telling you you're far happier without it as they fly off in their top-of-the-range motor with a smirk on their face

[catgate]

Aren't they known collectively as Politicians?

[Watchful]

Yes, you're right :D

Let's have a new collective noun for them like a prattle of politicians B)

[andsome]

Yes, you're right :D

Let's have a new collective noun for them like a prattle of politicians B)

Some of course run two Jags. :lol:

[catgate]

Yes, you're right :D

Let's have a new collective noun for them like a prattle of politicians B)

You are getting near. I think a Midden of politicians is probably nearer.

[andsome]

How about a rabble of politicians?

[catgate]

A rabble lives down a hole and lives off grass. Politicians live in an ivory tower in cloud cuckoo land, and live of the fat of the land and everyone else's hard work.

[Watchful]

How about a babel of politicians ? :D

[r4may]

How about a babel of politicians ? :D

Sounds good :lol: :lol:

[Scarecrow Man]

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

-- Jim Eliot

[andsome]

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

-- Jim Eliot

That certainly applies to politicians. :lol:

[Watchful]

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

-- Jim Eliot

Pardon?

[catgate]

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

-- Jim Eliot

Pardon?

It's simple.

It is along the lines of, "He who would not wait cannot bestow an effulgence without smock-worked sandlewood underpinning" but without the oblique reference to cocoa.

[Gandalph]

It's simple.

It is along the lines of, "He who would not wait cannot bestow an effulgence without smock-worked sandlewood underpinning" but without the oblique reference to cocoa.

Since you have explained that so well, it throws a different light on it now. :D

[Watchful]

Yes...that does put another slant on it

[Scarecrow Man]

You are smart for giving what you cannot keep to gain what you cannot lose.

I just thought it sort of applied to telling people they don't want what they think they want, that Alan posted.

[catgate]

There is no arguing with that view point, and I feel Ogden Nash would have agreed,

The funny one in the family was Fraser. He used to go round making noises like a motor car. He was a chain smoker too.

[Gandalph]

There is no arguing with that view point, and I feel Ogden Nash would have agreed,

The funny one in the family was Fraser. He used to go round making noises like a motor car. He was a chain smoker too.

He must have used an Oxy Acetylene torch to be able to light a chain. :D

[Watchful]

He ought to have made a noise like a chain-saw

[catgate]

It was claimed that it was because his chain ran "dry", that is to say "was badly oiled", that it heated up and made the oil that was left on it evaporate in smoke. But then..what do I know?.

[Watchful]

Indeed

[andsome]

My brain hurts. :D