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Are you sure? 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Personal experience?
Thank *insert favourite sky pixie* no!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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OriginalGriff wrote: Are you going to sock them one?
Not even if Aretha Franklin or her daughters were singing that.
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My keen Lounge senses detect a BUQOTD*1 on the rise!
Cheers!
*1: Botched Up Quote Of The Day
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I fear we are already reaching the point of OTD OCD. She canna take much more Captain!
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With friends like that, who need enemas? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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RyanDev wrote: Anyone eating off of this menu
That "food" won't be flushed by an enema; it requires a stomach pump!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: That "food" won't be flushed by an enema
Perhaps a fire-hose enema?  
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Why! I actually would love a 3% income tax...
(I have an attached zero to it...By any means...)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Be glad it's only one zero...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's a double zero - one for the rate and one for the benefit...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Wikipedia wrote: Income tax was first implemented in Great Britain by William Pitt the Younger in his budget of December 1798 to pay for weapons and equipment in preparation for the Napoleonic Wars. Pitt's new graduated (progressive) income tax began at a levy of 2 old pence in the pound (1/120) on incomes over £60 (£5,641 as of 2015),[7] and increased up to a maximum of 2 shillings (10%) on incomes of over £200.
So Lincoln stole the idea...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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So Lincoln stole the idea. He was a politician after all! Why does that not surprise me? 
How do we preserve the wisdom men will need,
when their violent passions are spent?
- The Lost Horizon
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Wikipedia: The first known system of taxation was in Ancient Egypt around 3000–2800 BC in the first dynasty of the Old Kingdom.
And according to the Bible it was 20% of the mass production...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Yes - but that's not income tax (probably because they didn't use money yet?). I think that's called a "tithe".
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Tithe, one of my favorite words. Every time I hear or read that word I picture a posh Englishman talking about mammaries and not taxes.
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 You have a very odd understanding of the way English nobs speak then (or a decidedly one track mind)!
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Work these days is regularily interfering with my responsibilities here on CP.
There you go:
I hear you, Greek! I prophesy a rethorical strategy! (9)
Let's see how fast this one will be cracked! 
Hint 1: What's up? Too challenging for you elephanting sunshines?
Hint 2: Eloquent, playful and seemingly harmless phrasing, yet devastating connotation!
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
modified 5-Aug-15 10:05am.
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Was the clue modified?
cheers,
Super
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Too much of good is bad,mix some evil in it
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super wrote: Was the clue modified?
Yes, but it's quite marginal.
I've changed it from "a form of rethoric" to "rethorical strategy",
which if find a much closer match than the first.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Sorry, that isn't it!
BTW, how did you arrive at that, was that a guesstimate?
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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A stab in the dark. On the moon. With a spoon.
I hear you in greek = akhou = account ?
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