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12th July 2023, 12:56 PM
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Very True
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Just as an aside can anyone name the film. Was it the Quiet Man ?
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12th July 2023, 04:58 PM
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To thrive in life you need 3 bones: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Oh, how I wish I had been the one to come up with the quote above. Instead, the credit for this wise — and clever — thinking needs to go to the famous country music singer Reba McEntire.
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12th July 2023, 11:12 PM
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She may have said it or may have been in one of her songs. I think it was first mentioned in the movie the queit man in 1952 by Barry Fitzgerald
Reba McEtire was not born until 1955.
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13th July 2023, 12:17 AM
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Hi James
I had seen that Movie Years back, but to be honest i cannot recall that saying at all. But then mate my Memory is not all that Bright any longer! LOL
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13th July 2023, 03:25 AM
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Mike Hewitt
To thrive in life you need 3 bones: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.
Oh, how I wish I had been the one to come up with the quote above. Instead, the credit for this wise — and clever — thinking needs to go to the famous country music singer Reba McEntire.
Excerpt taken from Old Fulton NY Post Cards on the 12th December 1908, New Rochelle (NY) Pioneer, “Club’s Annual Banquet'', pg. 5, col. 4:
Printed below link as the lettering may be hard to read.
https://fultonhistory.com/Newspaper%...20-%200404.pdf
''Dr. Kavanagh spoke on “Moral Anatomy,” and talked of three bones—the wish bone, the funny bone, and the back bone. His address was unique and highly entertaining''.
Added for easy reading Marian
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13th July 2023, 07:20 AM
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Re: Very True
Was it not the Quiet American with John Wayne and Maureen O” Hara . JS As for the bones would adding a T bone not make you a man of substance ? JS
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13th July 2023, 07:30 AM
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Was it not the Quiet American with John Wayne and Maureen O” Hara . JS As for the bones would adding a T bone not make you a man of substance ? JS
Not if T boned by an HGV!
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13th July 2023, 09:24 AM
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John the movie was called The Quiet Man and yes it did star John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara filmed in Ireland in 1952.
https://youtu.be/2kimSAyuIYc
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