bludgard Posted August 27, 2010 Report Share Posted August 27, 2010 If your out-go is greater than your income,then your up-keep will be your downfall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted August 27, 2010 Report Share Posted August 27, 2010 Shades of Mr Micawber. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted August 27, 2010 Report Share Posted August 27, 2010 I'd like a bit more 'out-go'.......... :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted August 27, 2010 Report Share Posted August 27, 2010 We still manage to put away a little of the income.:) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted August 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2010 Shades of Mr Micawber.Never heard of it.Interesting reading though.Maybe my grandpa was familiar with this Mr Micawber.I remember him uttering this when I was a child and for some reason I never forgot it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted August 27, 2010 Report Share Posted August 27, 2010 Mr Micawber is a creation of Charles Dickens in his novel David Copperfield:/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilkins_MicawberOne of his oft quoted phrases is "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen pounds nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery." From whence comes The Micawber Principle.The "Shades" part of my previous response is meant to indicate "Reminiscent of". Sorry if I was confusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted August 27, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 27, 2010 The "Shades" part of my previous response is meant to indicate "Reminiscent of". Sorry if I was confusing.I picked that up. ;) Just thought I'd add more words to validate the thread topic. :lol: I've read a little Dickens back in the day-yet this has thrown a new light on the matter. B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted August 30, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2010 Wow.This John Wilkes was quite the fellow....On 10 May 1768, the imprisonment in King's Bench of radical John Wilkes (for writing an article for the The North Briton, that severely criticized King George III) prompted a riot - the Massacre of St George's Fields - in which five people were killed. Like the earlier buildings, this prison was also badly damaged in a fire started in the 1780 Gordon Riots.Lively lookin' place... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted August 31, 2010 Author Report Share Posted August 31, 2010 EDIT TO PREVIOUS POST:I apologize for being so cryptic.I ran across this when reading about Mr. Micawber.Seems the character was modeled after Dickens' father and the father was incarcerated in this debtors prison.Which led to the John Wilkes refference.... :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANEMAN Posted September 1, 2010 Report Share Posted September 1, 2010 andsome said: We still manage to put away a little of the income. Ah ! back to Charles Dickens then ? :) "We still manage to put away a little of the income. - We're ever so 'umble." :P The old bugger has probably got money coming out of his ears. :lol: John. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted September 1, 2010 Report Share Posted September 1, 2010 andsome said: We still manage to put away a little of the income. Ah ! back to Charles Dickens then ? :) "We still manage to put away a little of the income. - We're ever so 'umble." :P The old bugger has probably got money coming out of his ears. :lol: John.And other places that are unmentionable on this Forum. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bludgard Posted November 12, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2010 Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.Josh Billings 1818-1885 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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