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hawker@btinternet.com
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| Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 11:16 am
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<rogertidy@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1123933216.963418.165390@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
apprentice wrote:
| Quote: | what are the most common expresions with colours that people around you
use
most often?
if I am asked I know those, I mean I recall them at once:
green fingers
paint the town red
caught red-handed
out of the blue (with the or without?)
blue eye
deep blue sea
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Regards,
Paweł
Warsaw, Poland
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"To see red", meaning to become angry.
Roger
red eye
red nosed raindear
black rings round the eyes
green snot
multicoloured puke
bucket o' brown shite, "muck men! muck men! middle o'night, running down
t'ginnel wi' buckets o' shite", and so on with such delightful snippets from
English urben folk songs.
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John Briggs
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| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 4:21 am
Post subject: Re: Colours |
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John Hall wrote:
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"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin"
Sir Josiah Stamp, a former president of the Bank of England
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Lord Stamp was a *director* of the Bank of England, but amongst a
bewildering array of public offices and achievements, that was probably not
a defining one. I wouldn't bank (hah!) on the accuracy of the quotation,
either 
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John Hall
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| Posted: Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:48 pm
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In article <qNqQe.3405$l7.2615@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net>,
John Briggs <john.briggs4@ntlworld.com> writes:
| Quote: | John Hall wrote:
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin"
Sir Josiah Stamp, a former president of the Bank of England
Lord Stamp was a *director* of the Bank of England, but amongst a
bewildering array of public offices and achievements, that was probably not
a defining one.
I wouldn't bank (hah!) on the accuracy of the quotation,
either
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Thanks. I found the quotation on a Website so that, though I would like
to think that it is authentic, it might well not be.
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John Hall
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come
sit next to me."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)
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John Hall
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:48 am
Post subject: Re: Colours |
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In article <qNqQe.3405$l7.2615@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net>,
John Briggs <john.briggs4@ntlworld.com> writes:
| Quote: | John Hall wrote:
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin"
Sir Josiah Stamp, a former president of the Bank of England
Lord Stamp was a *director* of the Bank of England, but amongst a
bewildering array of public offices and achievements, that was probably not
a defining one. I wouldn't bank (hah!) on the accuracy of the quotation,
either
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A bit of research on the Web threw up this quotation from
http://ud.lir.be/tiki-print.php?page=MoneyQuotes
with looks authentic:
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the
earth; take it away from them but leave them with the power to create
credit; and, with a flick of a pen, they will create enough money to buy
it back again. Take this power away from them and all great fortunes
like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for then this
world would be a happier and better world to live in.
"But if you want to be slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own
slavery, then let the bankers control money and control credit." - Sir
Josiah Stamp, Director, Bank of England, c1940.
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John Hall
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come
sit next to me."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) |
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John Briggs
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:15 am
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John Hall wrote:
| Quote: | In article <qNqQe.3405$l7.2615@newsfe6-gui.ntli.net>,
John Briggs <john.briggs4@ntlworld.com> writes:
John Hall wrote:
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin"
Sir Josiah Stamp, a former president of the Bank of
England
Lord Stamp was a *director* of the Bank of England, but amongst a
bewildering array of public offices and achievements, that was
probably not a defining one. I wouldn't bank (hah!) on the accuracy
of the quotation, either :-)
A bit of research on the Web threw up this quotation from
http://ud.lir.be/tiki-print.php?page=MoneyQuotes
with looks authentic:
"Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin. Bankers own the
earth; take it away from them but leave them with the power to create
credit; and, with a flick of a pen, they will create enough money to
buy it back again. Take this power away from them and all great
fortunes like mine will disappear, and they ought to disappear, for
then this world would be a happier and better world to live in.
"But if you want to be slaves of bankers and pay the cost of your own
slavery, then let the bankers control money and control credit." - Sir
Josiah Stamp, Director, Bank of England, c1940.
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I would be happier if it was sourced to one of his many publications, e.g.
'The national capital and other Statistical studies' (1937) or 'Central
Banking as an Imperial Factor' (1934).
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John Hall
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| Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 2:36 am
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In article <_1KQe.2461$Ys5.1596@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net>,
John Briggs <john.briggs4@ntlworld.com> writes:
| Quote: | John Hall wrote:
[concerning the authenticity of a quotation attributed to Josiah Stamp]
I would be happier if it was sourced to one of his many publications, e.g.
'The national capital and other Statistical studies' (1937) or 'Central
Banking as an Imperial Factor' (1934).
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According to http://www.sustecweb.co.uk/past/sustec11-4/editorial.htm
it was contained in a speech that he gave in 1940. It certainly reads
like something intended to be given orally. I haven't been able to pin
it down more than that.
--
John Hall
"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come
sit next to me."
Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980) |
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