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«Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.»
Author: David Gayson | About: Joy | Keywords: baked, baked potato, beef, beef stew, stew, stewed, stewing
«The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.»
«Oh! The roast beef of England, / And old England's roast beef.»
«The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.»
«Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef»
«The end of an ox is beef, and the end of a lie is grief»
Author: African Proverb | About: Grief, Lies | Keywords: beef, beefing, beeves, ox
«TOPE, v. To tipple, booze, swill, soak, guzzle, lush, bib, or swig. In the individual, toping is regarded with disesteem, but toping nations are in the forefront of civilization and power. When pitted against the hard-drinking Christians the absemious Mahometans go down like grass before the scythe. In India one hundred thousand beef- eating and brandy-and-soda guzzling Britons hold in subjection two hundred and fifty million vegetarian abstainers of the same Aryan race. With what an easy grace the whisky-loving American pushed the temperate Spaniard out of his possessions! From the time when the Berserkers ravaged all the coasts of western Europe and lay drunk in every conquered port it has been the same way: everywhere the nations that drink too much are observed to fight rather well and not too righteously. Wherefore the estimable old ladies who abolished the canteen from the American army may justly boast of having materially augmented the nation's military power.»
«You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!»
«Vice President Cheney is also on vacation. He's in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What better place for a guy who has had 4 heart attacks than a place with thin air, rugged hiking and all-beef dinners? Why don't they get some snow for him to shovel while he's out there, too?»

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