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Title: Good "One Liners"
Post by: David Nicholson on December 10, 2010, 04:35:22 PM
As it's a bit of a silly season at the moment hope Maggi doesn't mind this!

Here's one I heard last night.

I can't spell 'Armageddon' Still, it's not the end of the world!
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: David Nicholson on December 10, 2010, 07:51:48 PM
Is it just my sense of humour, I collapsed with laughter?
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Post by: mark smyth on December 10, 2010, 08:34:50 PM
I must stop procrastinating - I'll start tomorrow
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Post by: Martinr on December 10, 2010, 09:32:13 PM
Is it just my sense of humour, I collapsed with laughter?

Not just your sense of humour ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Gail on December 10, 2010, 10:29:25 PM
Is it just my sense of humour, I collapsed with laughter?
No - I loved that one too.  I walked in when my son was watching Live at the Apollo and that one tickled me.  Did you catch the name of the comedian?  I think he said he was Canadian?
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: ranunculus on December 11, 2010, 04:57:52 AM
The brilliant Stewart Francis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8-v-Iw4KVw
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Post by: TheOnionMan on December 11, 2010, 05:02:18 AM
The brilliant Stewart Francis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8-v-Iw4KVw

VERY Funny!  I like the fairy godmother joke best ;D
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Post by: Paddy Tobin on December 11, 2010, 09:07:44 AM
As with David's "Armageddon" line above, I heard this years ago: "I'd give my right hand to be ambidextrous."

Paddy
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Post by: Paddy Tobin on December 11, 2010, 05:56:33 PM
One of today's newspapers reports a comment made by a caller to a radio programme during the week: "Widows in Ireland are in a no-man's land."

Paddy
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: David Nicholson on December 11, 2010, 06:44:35 PM
I knew you wouldn't let me down Paddy and Mark

 Yes, as Cliff said my example was from Stewart Francis who is indeed Canadian and a very funny bloke and it's worth repeating again the Link Cliff gave:-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8-v-Iw4KVw

Yes Mark I liked the fairy godmother joke too but my favourite was "I was good at History"-you've got to see the link to pick up on this one.

Tim Vine is another wonderful exponent of the "One Liner"  Exit signs! On the way out aren't they.
 
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 11, 2010, 07:53:19 PM
Some short newspaper or magazine headlines are good too, like this one -

"Adulterated erectile dysfunction products on the rise in New Zealand.
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Post by: ranunculus on December 11, 2010, 07:57:46 PM
At least sales aren't drooping, Lesley!
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Post by: gote on December 12, 2010, 10:47:51 AM
A famous Swedish physician said in the late 19th century:

"If people knew how healthy Cognac is, they would drink them selves dead."  (Difficult translation. Someone can do a better one?)

A somewhat later comment on the theory of relativity:

"If you run faster than light you will have a blackout."

Cheers
Göte

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Post by: Gerry Webster on December 12, 2010, 11:37:18 AM
Some short newspaper or magazine headlines are good too, like this one -

"Adulterated erectile dysfunction products on the rise in New Zealand.

Not a problem in Brighton. The slogan on the lorry of a scaffold company: "Satisfaction with every erection".
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: Paul T on December 12, 2010, 12:05:20 PM
I've always liked....

"Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug!!"

Very, very true!!  ;D
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: ranunculus on December 12, 2010, 12:47:40 PM
Similarly ...

Sometimes you are the master of all you survey ... then the wife comes home!
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Post by: Lesley Cox on December 12, 2010, 10:06:38 PM
This last one sounds as if it originated with our man in Devon ;D
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Post by: Colin on December 13, 2010, 12:28:10 PM
Do crystal balls have a future?
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Post by: David Nicholson on December 13, 2010, 02:16:13 PM
This last one sounds as if it originated with our man in Devon ;D

Moi? ::)
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Post by: David Nicholson on December 13, 2010, 02:16:50 PM
Do crystal balls have a future?

Wondered where you were, good 'un. ;D
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Post by: Lesley Cox on December 13, 2010, 10:09:14 PM
This last one sounds as if it originated with our man in Devon ;D

Moi? ::)
Yes, toi. ???
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: David Nicholson on December 15, 2010, 09:00:49 PM
 ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: Heather Smith on December 19, 2010, 02:15:34 PM
I think it was Lesley Cox on this forum who delivered this one . .

"I've told you a million times not to exaggerate"

Thank you Lesley!

Merry Christmas everyone.
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: FrazerHenderson on December 19, 2010, 03:24:55 PM

shampoo, better than the real thing
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: ranunculus on December 19, 2010, 04:05:03 PM

shampoo, better than the real thing

That's the business, Frazer!   :D   Just the jobby!   :D
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: FrazerHenderson on December 19, 2010, 05:04:17 PM
Did you know 71% of all statistics are used without appropriate references, and a further 11% are simply made up?
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Post by: TheOnionMan on December 19, 2010, 05:11:08 PM
Did you know 71% of all statitistics are used without appropriate references, and a further 11% are simply made up?

Are these statistics part of that 11% ;D
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: johnw on December 19, 2010, 06:29:36 PM
"Just hand over the chocolate and no one will get hurt" - Maggi Young?

johnw
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 19, 2010, 07:04:06 PM
I think it was Lesley Cox on this forum who delivered this one . .

"I've told you a million times not to exaggerate"


Goodness, I don't remember that! :)

I came across this one the other day, from Picasso.
"The bad thing about being famous is, you have to work so hard at it."
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: Gerry Webster on December 19, 2010, 07:29:01 PM
I like this, attributed to Dolly Parton:

"It costs a lot of money to look as cheap as this."
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Post by: Paul T on December 19, 2010, 08:29:26 PM
I think it was Lesley Cox on this forum who delivered this one . .

"I've told you a million times not to exaggerate"

Thank you Lesley!

Merry Christmas everyone.

Heather,

That's one I use all the time as well.  It usually gets a laugh in conversation.  I've always thought it was quite widespread in use.... but maybe just a bottom of the world thing?
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: Lesley Cox on December 19, 2010, 08:53:22 PM
"It costs a lot of money to look as cheap as this."

That reminds me of Anna Russell. Anyone remember Anna Russell? My mother used to remark that she (AR) must be able to play the bagpipes superbly, in order to play them so badly.
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: Maggi Young on December 19, 2010, 11:16:42 PM
"Just hand over the chocolate and no one will get hurt" - Maggi Young?

johnw

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Post by: Maggi Young on December 19, 2010, 11:20:40 PM
One of my favourites........ seldom hear it though......

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Post by: John Kitt on December 19, 2010, 11:42:48 PM
Must have been a woman that said that.

Some of my favorite one-liners by women include-

The way I see it , if  you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain - Dolly Parton

Whoever said 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts, probably lost' -  Martina Navratilova

There is only one real sin and that is persuade yourself that second-best is anything but second best - Doris Lessing.




Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: johnw on December 20, 2010, 02:30:40 AM
“Health nuts are going to feel stupid some day, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.”  - Redd Foxx

johnw
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Post by: Gerry Webster on December 20, 2010, 09:56:01 AM
No one seems to have mentioned the Groucho Marx classic:

"I would never join any club that would have me for a member."
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Post by: David Nicholson on December 20, 2010, 12:38:50 PM
.... and another one from Groucho

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it"

and a couple from Jimmy Carr.

It's easy to distract fat people. It's a piece of cake.

I was walking the streets of Glasgow last night and saw this sign "This door is alarmed" I said to myself, how do you think I feel!
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: PDJ on December 20, 2010, 03:05:51 PM
"Football is a game of two equal halves"

Sports presenter I don't know which one now.
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: Gerry Webster on December 20, 2010, 04:09:01 PM
Let us not forget Woody Allen:

"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying."
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: Anthony Darby on December 21, 2010, 11:51:55 AM
Claude Monet once met Vincent van Gogh in a café. Monet said to Vinvent "would you like a cognac Vincent?". The reply came back: "I've got one 'ear".
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: art600 on December 21, 2010, 01:11:58 PM
Thought from the Greatest Living  Scottish Thinker. Billy Connolly -

"If women are so bloody perfect at  multitasking, how come they can't have a headache and sex at the same  time?

Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: FrazerHenderson on December 26, 2010, 05:25:16 PM
"I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather; not screaming in terror like the passengers in his car"
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Post by: FrazerHenderson on December 26, 2010, 05:58:17 PM


Urgent: Telepath required.......you know where to apply.
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Post by: FrazerHenderson on December 27, 2010, 03:06:09 PM


Here's a golden rule - those that have the gold rule

or

Those who call it necking clearly have no knowledge of anatomy
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: David Nicholson on December 27, 2010, 07:02:02 PM
I like the Telepath one.

Three from Tim Vine.

Velcro! What a rip off

Black Beauty. He's a dark horse

I saw this bloke chatting up a Cheetah. I thought "He's trying to pull a fast one"
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Post by: Maggi Young on December 27, 2010, 07:30:24 PM
I LOVE Tim Vine..... his one-liners are just the best since Chic Murray, in my opinion. ;D


"I was in a Chinese restaurant when a duck came up to me with a rose and
said: 'Your eyes sparkle like the stars'. So I said to the waiter: 'Excuse me, I ordered aromatic duck!!!!!!'
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: David Nicholson on December 27, 2010, 07:48:27 PM
 ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: FrazerHenderson on December 28, 2010, 10:33:36 AM

I was going to be an atheist until I realised they don't have holidays
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Post by: Lesley Cox on December 28, 2010, 08:12:54 PM
Someone said "I'm an atheist, thank God."
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Post by: Gerry Webster on December 28, 2010, 08:18:53 PM
Someone said "I'm an atheist, thank God."

Luis Buńuel.
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: FrazerHenderson on January 03, 2011, 05:35:04 PM
It's a real shame that all the people who know how to run the country are busy cutting hair, driving taxis or writing on the SRGC Forum. (apologies to George Burns)

40 years in the desert and Moses takes us to the only place in the near east without oil! (attributed to Golda Meir)

Yiddish telegam: "Start worrying. Details to follow."

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Post by: FrazerHenderson on January 03, 2011, 05:54:25 PM
and here's a cracker , literally

What do you call a deer with no eyes? No idea.
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Post by: Colin on January 03, 2011, 06:42:51 PM
My brother was an only child
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Post by: daveyp1970 on January 03, 2011, 06:55:15 PM
its pretty rough were i live i went to close my living room window and somebody pinched my watch
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Post by: FrazerHenderson on January 06, 2011, 08:11:20 PM

I see corduroy pillows have been making headlines again.
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Post by: David Nicholson on January 06, 2011, 08:47:50 PM

I see corduroy pillows have been making headlines again.

 ;D ;D ;D
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Post by: FrazerHenderson on January 23, 2011, 05:58:42 PM




Surveyors....they're level-headed.
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Post by: David Nicholson on January 23, 2011, 07:40:18 PM
Good to see you still dragging 'em up Frazer ;D

4 from the late and lamented Chic Murray:-

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

If somethings neither here nor there, where the hell is it?

I had a tragic childhood-my parents never understood me. They were Japanese.

I first met my wife in the tunnel of love. She was digging it.
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Post by: Colin on January 24, 2011, 10:18:02 AM
Chic Murray? My boyhood hero! Saw him many times at The Palladium in Edinburgh (1950s)

' I was at the beach yesterday. A fellow next to me kept thowing a stick in the water and shouting 'Fetch it' -I was up to my knees before I realised he had a dog with him.

Saw a girl at the side of the road, stopped the car and said ' Would you like a lift?
No thanks 'she said 'I live in a bungalow.

She seemed a bit fresh as she asked if I could drive with one hand.  Why? I asked, have you got sandwiches?

Was on a bus yesterday and the conductor dropped his bag of money. I stooped down to help up pick it up.  No thanks, he said, the change will do me good.

Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: David Nicholson on January 24, 2011, 07:41:11 PM
Every one a little gem ;D
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Post by: David Nicholson on August 27, 2011, 08:20:17 PM
Voted best joke at Edinburgh Fringe:
"I needeed a password eight characters long so I chose Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"

Voted worst joke:
I said to a fella "Is there a B&Q in Henley?" No, he said "There's an H, an E, an N, an L, an E and a Y" (Paul Daniels!)  

Cracker from Tim Vine who was second:
"Crime in multi-storey car parks: That's wrong on so many different levels"
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: Anthony Darby on August 28, 2011, 10:19:10 AM
An American couple were having a burger in a café in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. They called the waitress over and said "how do you pronounce the name of this place?" She leant over and said carefully "Bur - ger- king"!
Title: Re: Good "One Liners"
Post by: Lesley Cox on August 28, 2011, 09:43:21 PM
Love that one. ;D
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