SteveW
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"I expect to win it. Sit back, put your feet up in front of the TV, relax and anjoy it. Let me do the worring - thats what i get paid for"
England manager Graham Taylor before the 1992 European Championships. England failed to win a single game.
"That rainbow song's no good. Take it out"
memo from MGM executive after first screening of The Wizzard of Oz (1939)
"The Beatles? They're on the way out."
The Duke of Endinburgh in Canada, before they went on to record another 10 number one hits (1965)
"And for the tourist who really wants to get away from it all, Safaris in Vietnam."
NewsWeek magazine (late 1960's)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"
Thomas Watson, chairman for IBM (1943)
"You ought to go back to driving a truck"
Concert manager, firing Elvis Presley (1954)
"But what is it good for ??"
Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, commenting of the microchip (1968)
"Very interesting, Whittle, my boy, but it will never work"
A professor of Aeronautical engineering at CAmbridge, shown Frank Whittle's plans for the jet engine
"Everything that can be invented has been invented"
Director of the US Patient Office (1899)
"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible"
Lord Kelvin, president of The Royal Society (1895)
"X-Rays are clearly a hoax"
Lord Kelvin, president of The Royal Society (1899)
saw these in a mag today and thought some were pretty funny
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Jambo
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Registered: 8th Sep 01
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Whittle one is excellent i bet the proffesseor had a massive moustache
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Edd
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Registered: 8th Nov 04
Location: Glasgow
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Native of hiroshima aug 6 1945
"gonna be a nice day i think" !
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Tom
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Registered: 3rd Apr 02
Location: Wirral, Merseyside
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good those 
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Ojc
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Registered: 14th Nov 00
Location: Reading: Drives : Clio 197
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quote:
Originally posted by Edd_20
Native of hiroshima aug 6 1945
"gonna be a nice day i think"!
Gonna be a sunny day, better put the sun cream on 
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corsa5dr
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Registered: 12th Jan 03
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Alan Hansen, Mid 90's referring to Man Uniteds young team.
"Youll never win anything with kids"
They won the league that season.
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bradfincham
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Registered: 20th Sep 02
Location: East Of England Drives: Clio 172
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i can assure you all there will be no storm tonight
michael fish in 1987 in response to a women in east anglia saying its getting windy
the night of the great storm
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