Thousand Island Dressing - the best put down ever!
Posted by: George J on 20 May 2014
In the episode of Rumploe Of The Bailey, "The Return Of Rumpole," Rumpole is asked if he likes Thousand Island Dressing?
He replies,
"Does it really take a thousand islands to mix salad cream with tomato?"
The brilliant John Mortimer on top form!
ATB from George
If you like salad cream! I love tomatoes!
ATB from George
In the episode of Rumploe Of The Bailey, "The Return Of Rumpole," Rumpole is asked if he likes Thousand Island Dressing?
He replies,
"Does it really take a thousand islands to mix salad cream with tomato?"
The brilliant John Mortimer on top form!
ATB from George
George, you need to raise your standards a little. 
Ouch! Kevin that was cruel!
Okay. For music I aim the highest, but I am not so fussy with literature! 
In fact I am afflicted enough now that I doubt that I'll ever read another book, unfortunately!
It has not been easy for years and now it would be nigh impossible to read for more than a few minutes. Seeing the Consultant on Friday after referral ...
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Ouch! Kevin that was cruel!
Okay. For music I aim the highest, but I am not so fussy with literature!
In fact I am afflicted enough now that I doubt that I'll ever read another book, unfortunately!
It has not been easy for years and now it would be nigh impossible to read for more than a few minutes. Seeing the Consultant on Friday after referral ...
ATB from George
Sorry about that George, I was expecting a magnificent Churchillian putdown and all I got was a rather feeble Mortimer.
Here are some good 'uns:
John Cooper Clarke to a heckler: John Cooper Clarke: "Your bus leaves in 10 minutes... Be under it."
An ex lover of former Tory MP Nicholas "Fatty" Soames: “Sex with Nicholas was like having a very large wardrobe with a very small key falling on top of you.”
Snooker ace John Parrott on Joan Collins: “She can’t be with us tonight. She’s busy attending the birth of her next husband.”
Lady Astor to Winston Churchill: “Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison”; Churchill: “Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it.”
Labour MP Bessie Braddock to Churchill: “Winston, you’re drunk!”; Churchill: “Bessie, you’re ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober”
Oscar Wilde on America: "America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilisation in between"
A rival MP to Disraeli: "Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.”
Finally George, you might enjoy this one from Sir Thomas Beecham to an un-named lady cellist: "Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands and all you can do is scratch it."
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