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• "Propose to an Englishman any principal, or an instrument, however admirable, and you will observe that the whole effort of the English mind is directed to find a difficulty, a defect, or an impossibility in it. If you speak to him of a machine for peeling a potato, he will pronounce it impossible : if you peel a potato with it before his eyes, he will declare it useless, because it will not slice a pineapple" : Charles Babbage
• "The not unblack dog chased the not unsmall rabbit across the not ungreen field" : Politics and the English language George Orwell
• "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely fool-proof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools" : Mostly Harmless Douglas Adams
• "Post hoc, ergo proctor hoc" : (Latin: the result follows the cause (sarcastic))
• "It ain't ignorance that causes all the trouble in this world. It's the things people know that ain't so" : Josh Billings ( Henry Wheeler Shaw) (1818 to 1885)
• "The accident has been moved from the motorway" : Various UK media
• "Water is not a renewable source" : Water company spokesman, BBC Radio 2, 22 March 05
• "Cigarette dog-ends are non biodegradable" : BBC1 TV, Points West, 21 Feb 05

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• 'This statement is untrue': Hilbert ? paradox
• 'The QUERTY keyboard is optimised for easy use' : Various
• 'An automobile was invented that ran on water. But the oil companies stiffled the invention': Various
• 'The Americans never went to the moon. It was all done in a studio': Various
• 60% of Brits think the Queen is provided by God: Survey circa 2002
• 'The Americans only invaded Iraq for the oil': Various
• 'Pressing the red record button while playing can be fatal': Portable cassette recorder user guide circa 1976
• 'Can any bus service rival the fine Hanley to Bagnall route in Staffordshire, England? In 1976 it was reported that the buses no longer stopped for passengers. This came to light when one of them, Mr. Bill Hancock, complained that buses on the outward journey regularly sailed past queues of up to thirty people. Councillor Arthur Cholerton then made transport history by stating that if these buses stopped to pick up passengers they would disrupt the time-table.’