Not to be confused with the Ukrainian hunting spider, which actually has got a limp and is, as such, completely harmless, and a little bit bitter about the whole thing.
BILL BAILEYI’m English and as such I crave disappointment. That’s why I buy Kinder Surprise.
More Bill Bailey Quotes
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People say ‘Bill, are you an optimist?’ And I say, ‘I hope so.’
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But our country’s equivalent of gritty reality is more like “Look out Sarge, he’s got a shooter!”
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A horse walks into a bar, and the barman says “Why the long face?”. The horse replies: “I’m deeply troubled by the anthropomorphic aspects of my existence and the extent to which I am now protected by law.”
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The so-called Samaritan squirrel, which takes pity on the spider, and then the spider jumps on it and injects the paralyzing venom, while the squirrel remains bafflingly philosophical about the whole thing.
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Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it’s a Weasel with a Cheese finish.
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If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that’s undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right
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American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.
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Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.
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Live comedy’s a very reckless, foolhardy profession. You’re only as good as your last gig so earnings fluctuate.
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Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is a little bit stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability.
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I once punched a bloke in the face for saying ‘Hawk the Slayer’ was rubbish, when what I should have said ‘Dad, you’re wrong.’
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It’s the augmented fourth, or diminished fifth, depending on your outlook on life.
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Marijuana? It’s harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it
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You remind me of the Siberian hunting spider, which adopts a highly convincing limp in three of its eight legs in order to attract its main prey.
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Contentment is knowing you’re right. Happiness is knowing someone else is wrong.
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Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.
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It’s not a beard, it’s an animal I’ve trained to sit very still.
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I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think ‘Oh my God, I’m James Blunt, what have I done?’
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Work hard, save and live within your means.
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Three women walk into a pub and say, ‘Hooray, we’ve colonised a male-dominated joke format’
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I am a confectionery-based existentialist.
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I’m sort of like a post-modern vegetarian; I eat meat ironically.
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I tried to like it. For me, it was like being smacked around the head by a piece of IKEA furniture: it hurts, but you’ve got to admire the workmanship.
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How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! …no eight!
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I think we’ve missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro… to catch whatever it is that’s forming those crop circles! But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding Velcro, so it’s a bit of a long shot.
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