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Date Posted: 23:46:58 11/14/05 Mon
Author: Anonymous
Subject: Shhh! Don't say it.

They wished they hadn't said it
No woman in my time will be Prime Minister.-Margaret Thatcher, 1969 .........She became Prime Minister in 1979

Churchill? He is a busted flush.-Lord Beaverbrook in 1932, explaining why he would not give the man a job on his newspaper. Ten years later he was Prime Minister and his boss.

My uncle is a peaceful man, he thinks war’s not worth the candle.-Willie Hitler speaking about his uncle Adolph, 1937 .........

X-rays are a hoax.-Lord Kelvin, president of the Royal Society, 1900.

Man will not fly for fifty years.-Wilbur Wright to his brother, Orville, In 1901 .........In 1903 Wilbur and Orville flew.

Space travel is utter bilge-Dr. Richard Wooley, Astronomer Royal, 1956. ........The first sputnik was launched in 1957

This telephone is an amazing invention but who would want to use one of them?-American President, Rutherford Hayes 1876.

Edison’s electric light bulb is good enough for our transatlantic friends, but unworthy of practical of scientific or practical men.-British Parliamentary society set up to investigate electric lighting,1878.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. Ken Olsen ........Head of the Digital Equipment Company now part of Compaq,1977.

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