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Walkerballs

Hilarious quotes from ITV's Formula 1 motor racing  commentator Murray "Motormouth" Walker.

Keeganballs

Weird and wacky quotes from the ex-England football coach.

Atkinsonballs

The sayings of ex-Manchester United boss turned TV soccer pundit, "Mr  Bojangles" himself - "Big" Ron Atkinson.

Music

Films

Television

The Weakest Link

  As the stinging British quiz show 'The Weakest Link' makes its American TV debut,  here is just a taste of some of the rebukes US contestants can expect from quiz host Anne Robinson..

Royalty

QM@100 

The Queen Mother celebrated her 100th birthday on 4 August 2000. The wit and wisdom of the Queen Mother.

queen mother

Politics

Baffling Bushisms 

 President George "Dubya" Bush has already left an indelible mark on the English language.

Prescottballs

 British Deputy PM John "2 Jags" Prescott carries on where Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, left off. 

Crime and Punishment  

Love and Marriage

Other

Tennantballs

Extracts from actual letters sent to various county councils and housing associations throughout the UK from disgruntled tenants.

The News in Numbers

The numbers which have been making the headlines.

Education

Genuine answers to GCSE exams. If in doubt try and make the marker smile!!!

Lost in the translation

  Advertising slogans that got mangled up!

Squawks

Complaints submitted  by aircraft pilots to maintenance engineers and their responses...

Classic Quotes

Love

Sex

Marriage

Death

Other

Famous Last Words

The last words of kings, queens, courtiers, lawyers, murderers, doctors, poets, painters, priests, saints, martyrs, philosophers, actors, actresses, millionaires and sportsmen...before they shuffled off their mortal coils.


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Prairie Dog Pete 

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HOW TO SELL YOUR HOME IN JUST 6 WEEKS!! 

 Simple,  practical advice and ideas  on how to sell your home


The Old Mother Riley Website

Dedicated to Arthur Lucan/Old Mother Riley


The Doppelganger

British satire website


The Grassby Family History


Obit

Featuring those that have "exited stage right"

Pithy quotes from the world of entertainment, sport and the man in the street                  

December 2001


"Ms Hurley and I were not in an exclusive relationship when she became pregnant."

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US multi-millionaire 'film producer'  Stepen Bing redefining monogamy in his relationship with the British film actress, pictured above in her festive red bikini.

 

"My feeling is that until we catch him, which we will, we won't know where he is."

US defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld admitting he hasn't a clue where Osama bin Laden is.


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Tuesday 11 September 2001


This site was created and is maintained by Martyn Peter Wilkinson. Quotes and images not my own remain in the copyright of the originator or else in the public domain. The information contained in this web site is intended for entertainment, educational, historical, and informational purposes only.

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For a review of 2001 in quotes and pictures....Click here

Planet Horace's   

 QUOTES OF THE YEAR 2001

Third place...British  Ambassador Sir Christopher Meyer, reading a message of sympathy from HM The Queen at a  memorial service in New York to the victims of the WTC attack...

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

Second place...US Secretary of State Colin Powell for...

"They can destroy buildings, they can kill people, but they will never be  allowed to kill the spirit of democracy. They cannot destroy our society."

...and the WINNER is....

US President George W. Bush for...

"Every nation in every region now has a decision to make : Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists."

Addressing Congress shortly after the terrorist attacks on America.


Planet Horace's   

 IMAGES OF THE YEAR 2001

Third place...US President George W. Bush carries on where Bill Clinton left off...

 

Second place...The impact of the second jet airliner hitting the World Trade Center in New York on 11 September 2001

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Picture - Carmen Taylor/AP Photo

 

...and the WINNER is....

leap of death

Picture - Richard Drew/The Associated Press

A person jumps headfirst to certain death from the north tower of New York's World Trade Center. This horrific sight was repeated in the moments after the planes struck the towers.


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