Stupid Famous Sayings

sightband

crap ad on the radio “As Henry Ford once famously said; you can have any colour as long as it’s black”. What in sweet f**k is so clever about that?

Mr_Muffin

"If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best" - Henry Ford.

cantdecide

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.”

- Shergar

Bob Harris

"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" Henry Ford.

Flippyfloppy

''Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world'' Henry Ford

silverharp

whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger - Stephen Hawking

humberklog

"A problem shared is a problem halved"* Lyrics by H.Ford/Music by S.Hawking


A problem shared is in fact a problem doubled.

optogirl

the old cake & eat it nonsense

“90% of facts on the internet are bullsh!t” -Abraham Lincoln (at Ford Theatre)

Bob Harris

'get busy living or get busy dying' Red.

“To the windows, to the wall. Til the sweat drop down my balls, til all these bitches crawl. All skeet skeet motherfcuker, all skeet skeet goddamn”

-Price Philip

Wibbs

sightband wrote: »

crap ad on the radio “As Henry Ford once famously said; you can have any colour as long as it’s black”. What in sweet f**k is so clever about that?

Funny enough, or not... For the first few production years the Ford Model T couldn't be bought in black. They were red, green or blue. The black only thing came later as a way to reduce costs further(black was cheaper and dried more quickly on the production line).

valoren

sightband wrote: »

crap ad on the radio “As Henry Ford once famously said; you can have any colour as long as it’s black”. What in sweet f**k is so clever about that?

I take that saying to mean that substance over style was the priority.

An example would be the Apollo Guidance Computer. Today the computing power of it is laughably small compared to any cheap and basic electronic gadget. The thing was the AGC had all the computing power that was needed to do what was required. If engineers or planners needed it to do more that what was absolutely necesary it would have impeded the deadline.

With the Model T it did what it needed to do, get you from A to B, and to slow down production to satisfy styling whims of customers was completely unneccessary and production deadlines would have been impacted. Another quote attributed to Ford was that if he asked his customers what they actually wanted then they'd have asked for a faster horse.

Lucy8080

"Why, I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse."- A frustrated H.Ford on realising the downside of mass produced horseless carriages.

The Backwards Man

'Why is there a serious vibration in this heap of dung every time I go over 50mph?' - every Ford owner ever.

OldGoat

"You can lead a horse to water but a pencil must be lead."
Stan Laurel of the Laurel and Henry comedy partnership.

Graces7

sightband wrote: »

crap ad on the radio “As Henry Ford once famously said; you can have any colour as long as it’s black”. What in sweet f**k is so clever about that?

You omitted the punchline.... That all THEIR cars are green..Get it?

Bob Harris

'funky ford cortina is on my spotify playlist at the mo' - Henry Ford

uch

'Ask Me Bollix' - uch

For Forks Sake

Samuel T. Cogley

So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want
So tell me what you want, what you really, really want
I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha) I wanna, (ha)
I wanna really, really, really wanna zigazig ah

-Henry Fonda

manbitesdog

optogirl wrote: »

the old cake & eat it nonsense

I hate this phrase so much. What else would I do but eat the cake? What good is just having it?

discobeaker

Suckin' on my titties like you wanted me,
Callin me, all the time like blondie
Check out my chrissy behind
It's fine all of the time
Like sex on the beaches,
What else is in the teaches of peaches? huh? what?

- Martin Luther King

Ray Bloody Purchase

'My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.' - Henry Ford.

donegal.

You can't have your cake and eat it means the same as "you can't have it both ways" or "you can't have the best of both worlds."

you must choose to "eat" your cake or "have" it. you can't simultaneously do both.
You can't try to have two incompatible things

whisky_galore

Not the nicest man in history; hated Jews, had what amounted to his own private army of enforcers in his factory and was really sh1tty to his own son.

djPSB

'Et tu Brute'

manbitesdog

donegal. wrote: »

You can't have your cake and eat it means the same as "you can't have it both ways" or "you can't have the best of both worlds."

you must choose to "eat" your cake or "have" it. you can't simultaneously do both.
You can't try to have two incompatible things

But what is the point in just HAVING CAKE?? It will go stale if you don't eat it.

biko

I never shagged that woman

-Billy Clinton

feargale

humberklog wrote: »

"A problem shared is in fact a problem doubled."

- humberklog.

eviltimeban

"You call this archaeology?!" - Henry Jones Sr

donegal.

Rothko

sightband wrote: »

crap ad on the radio “As Henry Ford once famously said; you can have any colour as long as it’s black”. What in sweet f**k is so clever about that?

It annoys me because he never even said it in the first place.

Snowseer

I’m eating my breakfast, Kate.

~Trent

jippo nolan

Do unto others as they do unto you, but get the boot in first (Samuel L Jackson)

blaze1

Smell ya later

the_pen_turner

donegal. wrote: »

You can't have your cake and eat it means the same as "you can't have it both ways" or "you can't have the best of both worlds."

you must choose to "eat" your cake or "have" it. you can't simultaneously do both.
You can't try to have two incompatible things

its witten in a stupid way.
what they mean is you cant eat your cake and still have your cake to eat some other time.

Capt'n Midnight

sightband wrote: »

crap ad on the radio “As Henry Ford once famously said; you can have any colour as long as it’s black”. What in sweet f**k is so clever about that?

Back in the day , black paint dried faster than the other colours.
So it meant the production line could run faster.


BTW
The quarter circle shape of the back of the VW Beetle was originally designed to make it easier to paint the car, by dipping it in a vat of the stuff.

Capt'n Midnight

djPSB wrote: »

'Et tu Brute'

- Julius Caesar on realising some of his sweets were missing.

jonon9

Don't piss down my back and tell me its raining. Fletcher.

Are Am Eye

"It's amazing, people who don't understand the have your cake and eat it saying and they are allowed to vote" Henry Mondeo.

DanMurphy

'There we were, me an' ole Davy, shoulder to shoulder an' backs to the wall.'
(Unknown) Probably Henry Ford' grand-dad

bodhrandude

If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it.

Yer Da sells Avon

"If you can't handle me at my best, then you sure as fuck don't want to see me at my worst" - Me.

ToddyDoody

Whether you think you can or you can't, you're right.