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Prince Phillip gaffes quotations

(On receiving a gift from a Kenyan native woman) You are a woman aren’t you?..
(To a Cayman Islander) Aren’t most of you descended from pirates?..
(To a British ex-pat in Hungary) You can’t have been here that long, you haven’t got a pot-belly yet.
(To a Scottish driving instructor) How do you keep the natives from being inebriated long enough to pass their test?..

Real newspaper headlines quotations
• Include your children when baking cookies
• Something went wrong in jet crash, experts say
• Police begin campaign to run down jaywalkers
• Drunks get nine months in violin case     
• Iraqi head seeks arms
• Is there a ring of debris around Uranus?
• Prostitutes appeal to pope
• Panda mating fails, veterinarian takes over
• British left waffles on Falkland Islands
• Teacher strikes idle kids
• Clinton wins budget; more lies ahead
• Plane too close to ground, crash probe told
• Miners refuse to work after death
• Juvenile court to try shooting defendant
• Stolen painting found by tree
• Two sisters reunited after 18 years in checkout
• War dims hope for peace
• If strike isn’t settled quickly, it may last a while
• Couple slain; police suspect homicide
• Man struck by lightning faces battery charge
• New study of obesity looks for larger test group
• Astronaut takes blame for gas in space
• Kids make nutritious snacks

 

Original portraits in oil from photographs

Original portraits in oil from photographs“One afternoon, my son Joe settled down to do his homework at the kitchen table. I was intrigued by the directional light and the old fashioned abacus...

With other eyes

Do you wonder how others see you? What do others think of your country and way of life?


Con Otros Ojos (With other eyes)  is the inspiration of an ambi...

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 15 July 2009 18:13 )

Alora Art

When I look around me sometimes at the rich colours and dramatic shapes of the stunning Andalucian landscape I want to reach out for my sketch book, s...

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 June 2009 17:23 )

Picasso-a colourful trickster

It is said that most women in Picasso’s life had no problem recognising themselves in the outrageous portraits he painted of them. So, as I look at a ...

Last Updated ( Tuesday, 16 June 2009 17:22 )

 

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