"You have to risk it
to get the biscuit".
Competitor on a quiz show deciding to play on or not..........he did!!:D
Printable View
"You have to risk it
to get the biscuit".
Competitor on a quiz show deciding to play on or not..........he did!!:D
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read and all applicable to this:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating
the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another
person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the
government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
Once bitten, twice shy.
Pedro,Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift
You have quoted a changed version of Mary Gilmores poem,
(written during the Second World War. Published in The Australian Women's Weekly, 29 June 1940. Therefore Tobruk / Kokoda would have been accurate predictions! YOUR VERSION IS FROM TOWARDS THE END OF ww2 :) )
This is the unchanged version..
No foe shall gather our harvest
Sons of the mountains of Scotland,
Clansmen from correi and kyle,
Bred of the moors of England,
Children of Erin's green isle,
We stand four-square to the tempest,
Whatever the battering hail ?
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.
Our women shall walk in honor,
Our children shall know no chain,
This land that is ours forever
The invader shall strike at in vain.
Anzac! . . . Bapaume! . . . and the Marne! . . .
Could ever the old blood fail?
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.
So hail-fellow-met we muster,
And hail-fellow-met fall in,
Wherever the guns may thunder,
Or the rocketing ?air mail? spin!
Born of the soil and the whirlwind,
Though death itself be the gale ?
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.
We are the sons of Australia,
Of the men who fashioned the land,
We are the sons of the women
Who walked with them, hand in hand;
And we swear by the dead who bore us,
By the heroes who blazed the trail,
No foe shall gather our harvest,
Or sit on our stockyard rail.
? MARY GILMORE.
She was 75 at the time
Some notes:-
Bapaume = a town in northern France, which was captured by the German army, and regained by Allied forces (including Australians) in March 1917; it was recaptured by the Germans a week later, and subsequently regained by the Allies in September 1918
correi = a steep-sided hollow on a hillside or mountainside, especially referring to one in the mountains of Scotland (also spelt as ?corrie?; also called a ?cirque? or ?cwm?)
Erin = Ireland
kyle = (Scottish) a narrow sea channel or strait (from the Gaelic ?caol?, meaning ?narrow?)
Marne = the Marne River in France, around which the Second Battle of the Marne was fought in 1918, between the Allied forces (including Australians) and the German army
Just thought Id add the original, I heard the original from a bloke at an RSL night years ago and it stuck with me... Cheers Pedro!
"Experience" is being able to recognize you've made the same mistake before...:eek:
Answer to the polite greeting - question of 'How are you?'
- "Full of beans & Bulldust"
Im off like a bucket of prawns in the sun
Im all over it like a fat kid on a cupcake
Thank your mother for the rabbits
Australian A catchphrase used as a farewell:
see you tomorrow and thank your mother for the rabbits
[Popularly attributed to the Depression years when rabbits were welcome gifts]
My understanding is the farmers wife had no flour or suger, but could give the swaggie a few rabbits, to keep them going.
Sign I spotted yesterday on a student's locker door:
"I'd jump into your teapot to make life sweeter for you, baby."
The locker belonged to a female student, so I'm still thinking about what it could mean ...
That could make an onion cry...
Cheers Ean
a couple quotes i overheard yesterday .
hard work won't kill you , just makes you bitter
and
call [labour hire agency] and get some more disposables.
kept me chuckling for most of the afternoon as this was the manager talking to the leading hand