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Archive 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.. The Queen Mother celebrated her 100th birthday on 4 August 2000. The wit and wisdom of the Queen Mother.
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. HOW TO SELL YOUR HOME IN JUST 6 WEEKS!! Simple, practical advice and ideas on how to sell your home |
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Who has been making the news in 2000-2001 September 2001 Out of a clear blue sky...
As the dust literally settles following the terrorist strikes on The World Trade Center in New York, The Pentagon and Pittsburgh - some of the quotes....
AP Photo/The Examiner Front page of The San Francisco Examiner on Wednesday, 12 September 2001. "It doesn't look to me like they're going to be able to rescue you. Sean, we need to say goodbye." Beverley Eckert, on the telephone to her husband, Sean Rooney, marooned on the 105th floor of the WTC North Tower, a minute before it collapsed.
We're f***ing dying here." An un-named money trader on his mobile phone as the second hijacked airliner (pictured below) crashed into the WTC. The phone then went dead.
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- Carmen Taylor/The Associated Press "We're all gonna die, but three of us are going to do something. I love you honey." Father-of- three Tom Burton, in a telephone call to his wife from the fourth hijacked jetliner, shortly before it crashed near Pittsburgh.
"I just wanted to tell you I love you. I'm trapped and there's smoke everywhere." Melissa Hughes's telephone message to her husband from inside the WTC (pictured below), which he found on their answerphone. She has not been seen since. "One fireman stopped to take a breath and we looked each other in the eye. He was going to a place where I damn well trying to get out of." Survivor of the WTC disaster Louis Lesce.
"I was on the 78th floor and they were working their way up fast to the 90's. they were going straight into hell and they were running there." Survivor of the WTC disaster David Frank.
343 The number of New York firemen missing, believed killed, or identified among the dead, in the the WTC terrorist attack.
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"Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names." Proverb "A sweet and noble thing it is to die for one's country." Horace For more like these...Click here Shortly after US President Abraham Lincoln's assassination in 1865, Herman Melville, the author of the classic novel Moby Dick, wrote a poem called The Martyr. It could have been written of America today. Here is an extract : 'There is sobbing of the strong, And a pall upon the land; But the People in their weeping Bare the iron hand; Beware the people weeping When they bare the iron hand.' For the full poem...Click here
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