What are you giving up?

[Don Petter]

Beating the wife. (I'ts a much quieter life if I let her win.)

[3rd Viennese School]

I had the idea of giving up going to the pub during lent and sober it out at home. The time was to be used composing some new 12 note pop tunes.
Uncannily enough the work was to be called “Lent”.

Couldn’t do it though.

3VS

[Paul Sherratt]

>>I'm giving up quayles eggs
????????

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[Serial_Apologist]

I had the idea of giving up going to the pub during lent and sober it out at home. The time was to be used composing some new 12 note pop tunes.
Uncannily enough the work was to be called “Lent”.

Couldn’t do it though.

3VS

Maybe you've been lent on

[Frances_iom]

>>I'm giving up quayles eggs
????????

merely from a Manx Hatchery ?

[3rd Viennese School]

I'm giving up Lent for Easter.

Drum Roll

Cymbal crash.

[Tapiola]

Yes, the Lenten task is to read all the way through the 3rd part of the Commedia. The other two parts were successfully completed during previous Lents; I have attempted the far drier third part before and have given up.

Well, two Cantos and one day in, and the Paradiso has thus far retained my attention. In fact it is not nearly as dry as I remember. Quite fascinating, if vaguely incomprehensible in parts. I shall persevere.

And the Bertini Mahler arrived yesterday. I shall perhaps keep it until my birthday in just over a week's time.

[Mr Pee]

I'm giving up Bungee Jumping. It'll be tough, but with the support of my friends and family, I'm sure I'll make it.

Wish me luck!

[3rd Viennese School]

Mr. Pee
Is your quotation from Homer Simpson?

3VS

"We are all but cows looking over a gate for half an hour"

[Mr Pee]

Mr. Pee
Is your quotation from Homer Simpson?

Indeed it is, 3VS. Probably the greatest philosopher of the modern age.

Another favourite of mine is:-

I want to share something with you: The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.




I rather like yours as well- where's it from?

[3rd Viennese School]

It’s made from what someone said about Vaughan Williams Symphony no.3 Pastoral. “It’s a cow looking over a gate for half an hour”.

Another Homer Simpsonism is “If something’s hard to do it’s not worth doing”

3VS

[salymap]

Another one that is surprisingly true for me. "If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly". Don't know who first said it though.

[StephenO]

Another one that is surprisingly true for me. "If a thing's worth doing, it's worth doing badly". Don't know who first said it though.

G.K. Chesterton, I think.