Originally Posted by Confucius

Excellent response, commander...I wonder what took more time with you; thinking of an answer, or typing it...

I get turned on by women, you get turned on by bicycles and Lance Armstrong; but you don't see me shitting all over your friday biking thread, do you? No...

So as I said nicely yesterday; **ck off my thread if you're not interested...I don't expect anyone to reply or find any of my threads interesting or boring, unlike you and your self-important stuff...

We'll resume our tennis later tonight; I have my daily quota of mops to sell, I wasn't fortunate like you to be paid for posting on BE and EW and GQ (Geek quarterly)...

Oh and a wee afterthought: You shouldn't be ending your responses by signing off as "boring ****"...It's not good to boast...

Originally Posted by lionheart

But what's the point in having cake if you are unable to eat it...a very silly phrase in my view.

Originally Posted by banter64

Popcorn anyone ?

Conf - please try and be nice as today is my last day on the board for a while xx

Originally Posted by commander

and you call my threads self important...jeez you are a sad fool..

Originally Posted by lionheart

But what's the point in having cake if you are unable to eat it...a very silly phrase in my view.

Originally Posted by Confucius

True, absolutely...But MM gave a better phrase for the same effect...

Originally Posted by MacScot

It is a daft English proverb from the 16th century, which was actually reversed in 1812...i.e., if you eat your cake, you can't have it (because you have eaten it !). Originally you had to have a cake before you could eat it (i.e., chronological order).

A better saying is 'you can't have the best of both worlds'...methinks...

Originally Posted by Confucius

That can also be said...But the most popular is the one with the cake...

Originally Posted by MacScot

Well OK...but your OP was for us to make of it what we want, and I'm sure it wasn't for us to be pedantic about the proverb...are we to wittily guess what you have been up to ?

Originally Posted by Confucius

Ok...How can I subtly say that I'm having an affair then???

Originally Posted by MacScot

Doh ! Having your cake and eating it too ?

PS We've gone full circle..

Originally Posted by Confucius

But in this case, it's having a cake and eating another cake...

Originally Posted by MataHari

greedy...

Originally Posted by Confucius

So many cakes, so little time...