I Wish That I Had Not Said That - 3

We're ten years old this week. It's a one-off thing. It won't happen again for another ten years. - Bob Elliot

And for those of you watching who don't have television sets, live commentary is on Radio 2. - TV Sports Commentator David Coleman

'Rembrandt is not to be compared in the painting of character with our extraordinarily gifted English artist, Mr Rippingille' - John Hunt (1775-1808).

I must appologise to the deaf for the loss of subtitles - TV News Reader Angela Rippon

Conditions on the roads are bad, so if you are just setting off for work, leave a little earlier. - Kelvin O'shea

And how long have you had this lifetime ambition? - DJ Gary Davis

`They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist . . .' The last words of General John Sedgwick spoken while looking over the parapet at enemy lines during the Battle of Spotsylvania in 1864.

`The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine' - Ernest Rutherford (1871-1937) after he had split the atom for the first time.

`You will never amount to very much' - A Munich Schoolmaster to Albert Einstein, aged 10.

`We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out.'- Decca Recording Company when turning down the Beatles in 1962. (The group was also turned down by Pye, Columbia, and HMV).

Hitting on the novel idea that he could end his wife's incessant nagging by giving her a good scare, Hungarian Jake Fen built an elaborate harness to make it look as if he had hanged himself. When his wife came home and saw him she fainted. Hearing a disturbance a neighbour came over and, finding what she thought were two corpses, seized the opportunity to loot the place. As she was leaving the room, her arms laden, the outraged and suspended Mr Fen kicked her stoutly in the backside. This so surprised the lady that she dropped dead of a heart attack. Happily, Mr Fen was acquitted of manslaughter and he and his wife were reconciled.

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