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Hilarious quotes from ITV's Formula 1 motor racing commentator Murray "Motormouth" Walker. Weird and wacky quotes from the ex-England football coach. The sayings of ex-Manchester United boss turned TV soccer pundit, "Mr Bojangles" himself - "Big" Ron Atkinson. 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.. With the death of the Queen Mother, aged 101, on 30 March 2002, here are a few of her quotes from this websites archive.
President George "Dubya" Bush has already left an indelible mark on the English language. British Deputy PM John "2 Jags" Prescott carries on where Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, left off. Extracts from actual letters sent to various county councils and housing associations throughout the UK from disgruntled tenants. The numbers which have been making the headlines. Genuine answers to GCSE exams. If in doubt try and make the marker smile!!! Advertising slogans that got mangled up! Complaints submitted by aircraft pilots to maintenance engineers and their responses... 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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On the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the USA on 11 September 2001, Click here to look back at the tragic events in quotes and pictures.
August 2002
"You can shave a monkey, but at the end of the day it's still a monkey" Essex comedian, Keith Dover, on moves to promote his county's cultural heritage instead of its vulgar image.
"Mugabe, Castro, Gadaffi, Blair...there goes the neighbourhood." Billboards in crime-ridden Johannesburg, South Africa, where world leaders were meeting for the Earth summit.
When we die, we don't go to purgatory. We just land on a roof and lie there." Ed Hendrick, creator of the Frisbee, who died aged 78, in California this month.  Hendrick loved Frisbees so much he asked that his ashes be moulded into a limited issue of memorial discs. "I f*cking hit him hard. The ball was there (I think). Take that, you c*nt". Manchester United and sometimes Irish footballer, Roy Keane, describing in his autobiography, his brutal tackle on fellow professional Alfe Inge Haaland which has provoked a £6m (approx. US$4m) lawsuit.
"I know nothing about nothing." Former Playmate and TV presenter Anna Nicole Smith, the £64m (approx. US$100m) widow. June/July 2002
"I was watching an advert the other night and there was this guy with Austin Powers's glasses. I said to my wife Sharika, 'Why is he talking in that stupid voice?' And she said, 'It's you!'" British actor Sir Michael Caine who didn't recognise himself as Powers's father in the new Austin Powers film, Goldmember.
"Get 'em orf at once. They look like icecream salesmen." HM The Queen on the new cool white Garden Party coats designed to replace the traditional heavy scarlet ones worn by her servants.
"Blood pressure." British actor Albert Finney ,66, (pictured below) when asked how it was he looked so well. "Very colourful." Back-handed compliment from HM The Queen after touring an exhibition of Sir Paul McCartney's paintings.
"Self praise is no praise." West Indies cricket legend, Sir Gary Sobers.
"If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street." US tennis player Serena Williams, who grow up in a Los Angeles ghetto, defining concentration.
"It's like carrying frogs in a wheelbarrow" General Secretary of NATO, Lord Robertson, on the difficulties of getting consensus among all the member states. May
2002
"Get me Pootie-Poot on the phone" US President George W. Bush, revealing his nickname for the Russian President Putin.
"I would like to be an archaeologist." Boxer Mike Tyson ,on his career options beyond boxing.
"I was naive in my youth" British classical singer Charlotte Church, 16, reflecting on her formative years.
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