Stupid Famous Sayings

sightband · 28-03-2018 09:41AM #1

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 · 28-03-2018 09:43AM

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

cantdecide · 28-03-2018 09:47AM

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

- Shergar

Bob Harris · 28-03-2018 09:49AM

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

Flippyfloppy · 28-03-2018 09:51AM

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

silverharp · 28-03-2018 09:52AM

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

humberklog · 28-03-2018 09:56AM

"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 · 28-03-2018 09:56AM

the old cake & eat it nonsense

28-03-2018 09:59AM

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

Bob Harris · 28-03-2018 10:03AM

'get busy living or get busy dying' Red.

28-03-2018 10:05AM

“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 · 28-03-2018 10:11AM

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 · 28-03-2018 10:16AM

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 · 28-03-2018 10:18AM

"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 · 28-03-2018 10:20AM

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

OldGoat · 28-03-2018 10:22AM

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

Graces7 · 28-03-2018 10:22AM

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 · 28-03-2018 10:32AM

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

uch · 28-03-2018 03:46PM

'Ask Me Bollix' - uch

For Forks Sake · 28-03-2018 03:57PM

Samuel T. Cogley · 28-03-2018 03:57PM

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 · 28-03-2018 04:00PM

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 · 28-03-2018 04:14PM

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 · 28-03-2018 04:15PM

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

donegal. · 28-03-2018 04:17PM

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 · 28-03-2018 04:19PM

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 · 28-03-2018 04:21PM

'Et tu Brute'

manbitesdog · 28-03-2018 04:22PM

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 · 28-03-2018 04:26PM

I never shagged that woman

-Billy Clinton

feargale · 28-03-2018 04:35PM

humberklog wrote: »

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

- humberklog.

eviltimeban · 28-03-2018 04:39PM

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

Stupid Famous Sayings

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