Fun Friday – Time for a bit of Spike Milligan!
On Money
“Money can’t buy you happiness, but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery”
“Money can’t buy friends but you can get a better class of enemy”
“All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy”
On The Irish
“It was the perfect Irish marriage – she didn’t want to and he couldn’t”
“There are no advantages to being a tax exile domiciled in Ireland. What you save on tax, you spend on drink”
“Many people die of thirst but the Irish are born with one.”
On Sea-Sickness
“A sure cure for sea-sickness is to sit under a tree”
“We were issued with seasickness pills. I never suffer from this so I threw them over the side, where the fish ate them, and were immediately sick”
On Sex
“Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion”
“Copulation equals Population equals Pollution.”
On Poetry
“I thought I’d begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.”
On Internationalism
“I speak Esparanto like a native.”
“Chopsticks are one of the reasons the Chinese never invented custard.”
I hope that you will allow me to comment on Spike’s view of Esperanto. Not many people know that Esperanto has native speakers. See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzDS2WyemBI
It was never planned that way, but it happened, and I have met about a dozen native speakers of the planned language over the years.
By the way, over 34,000 people have signed on for the new (beta) Duolingo Esperanto course in just three weeks.