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Just watched film noir classic 'Out of the past' which included the line "A lady with a rod [ie gun] is like a man with a knitting needle". Your turn, Freudians!
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"A lady with a rod [ie gun] is like a man with a knitting needle". Your turn, Freudians!
Vell, wat ve haf here iss de classic sexual stereotypink.
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<Vell, wat ve haf here iss de classic sexual stereotypink.>
Welcome to the board, Sigmund. Heard any good dreams lately?
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"A lady with a rod [ie gun] is like a man with a knitting needle"
Reminds me of the Good Doctor Johnson, who is alleged to have said, referring to the writing of Lady Novelists, "A woman writing (novels) is like a dog walking on its hind legs. One wonders not that it is done well, but that it is done at all"
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It was actually a woman preaching . The full anecdote can be found here: http://www.concordance.com/cgi-bin/letsr.pl Bingley
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< lady with a rod>
After watching the film again, I need to amend the quote to "a dame with a rod". I should have known better than to refer to a lady in a film noir!
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i can't think of any appropriate similes. I'm about as sharp as a bowling ball ?
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Welcome lapsus linguae.
A slippery customer like you would probably drop the bowling ball.
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It was actually a woman preaching Abject apologies to all.  It came from a teacher of mine from roughly a hundred years ago, who pointed out at the time that she was combining the wisdom of Johnson with the wit of Gilbert.
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G'day
For a stranger in a strange land it's often a temptation to pick up loose threads and run with them, go with the flow or grab the bull by the horns but sometimes discretion is the better part of valour and one should look before they leap to avoid stepping on other peoples toes or getting run over by fish riding bicycles. This may all sound like some tyred old clique but what goes around comes around.
Which leads me to my point, fish can't ride bicycles, they don't have any hands to hold the handle bars.
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