In the words of Dunx: "I suppose it's a long way off yet, but listening to this week's ISIHAC I liked the game of "Opening Lines" where the players would provide a line guaranteed to end the conversation with famous personages. Eg - "So, Mr Bush - is English your first language?" "Table for Mr Stringfellow and his granddaughter!" To Rod Hull - "Where's your emu?" Well, it made me laugh a lot anyway."
Expose more Expose all
Rosie - To Captain Oates - "See you later, then."
Dujon - To Richard Branson: "Well, are you?"
Software - To Engelbert Humperdinck "So what ever happened to Gerry Dorsey, then?"
Robin - Richard Branson (again): "I'm sorry I'm late, aren't the trains crap these days..."
Dujon - To Douglas Bader - "Don't fight the Air Ministry, old chap, you don't have a leg to stand on."
Dujon - To any Australian Labor P.M. - "Care for a swim?"
Dujon - To any Australian Liberal P.M. "Gough Whitlam's a mate of mine."
Dujon - To Sven Goran Eriksson - "How do you fancy your chances?"
widey - Open university rep......"Well Mr Pott what do you think of our distant learning packages"?
widey - widey to widey......When you going to learn to write HTML?????
Falstaff - Ernst Lehmann of the Hindenburg ...."It was no easy task Captain, but I have located the Hydrogen leak ... doesn't appear to be a problem ... I'll patch it up soon's I have a smoke."
Dujon - To Margaret Thatcher - "Wonderful place, the Argentine."
Dujon - To Charles De Gaul - "Is it true that the polls have you a nose in front?"
Rosie - To Sven-Goran Eriksson - "You've been watching The Muppets again, haven't you?"
plump - To Yasser Arafat - Are you sure you're not Jewish?
Dujon - To Stirling Moss - "And how many drivers' championships did you win?"
Rosie - To Thelonius Monk - "Jazz Greats? Yes, it does a bit, doesn't it?"
Breadmaster - To King Harold - "Careful! You'll have someone's eye out with that!"
el sico - To Miss Piggy - "So, does it really taste like chicken?"
Robin - Sir Stafford Cripps (as presented by Lowell Thomas) - ...introducing the eminent politician, Sir Stifford Craps.
Ziggy - To Paula Radcliffe on handing her half a Snickers bar - "Do you want to finish this marathon?
Breadmaster - Or alternatively - "What was the name of that quiz show that Henry Kelly used to host? Can't remember it for the life of me!"
Dujon - To the Australian Womens' Eight -

'Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Gold is but a dream'
Rosie - To Henry VIII - "Today we call it serial monogamy".
JLE - Sung by the travelling "Barmy Army" of English cricket supporters, to the Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan, infamously accused of throwing rather than bowling the ball (and actually penalised during a previous match, for exactly that, by the umpire Darrell Hair, who was to umpire the next England/Sri Lanka match):

"Throw, throw, throw the ball,
roll it round the seam:
Murali, Murali, Murali, Murali
Chucks it like a dream.

Bowl, bowl, bowl the ball,
quickly through the air:
Murali, Murali, Murali, Murali -
Here comes Darrell Hair!

NO-BALL!

widey - Sir Donald Campbell.........Its as smooth as glass out there,lets give it a go
Breadmaster - Buzz Aldrin - "Second is almost as good as first, isn't it?"
Breadmaster - Adolf Hitler - "Living room extensions are always more hassle than you expect, aren't they?"
Breadmaster - Croesus of Lydia - "Still. Can't take it with you, can you?"
Breadmaster - George W. Bush - "Do you think that James' account of pragmatic epistemology represents a betrayal of the philosophy of Pierce, or a legitimate development of it?"
widey - Herman Goering...........R.A.F.? Who the fuck are they?
Breadmaster - John Kerry - "Better the devil you know, that's my philosophy."
Uncle Korky - Christopher Eccleston - "Didn't you used to be Tom Baker?"
st dogmael - to Hal Sutton : "So do you think the reason you guys lost the Ryder Cup is because you are the worst kind of Red-Necked deep-fried southern asshole imaginable?"
Raak - Dirk Maggs: "Of course, it'll never be as good as the original series."
Horatio Townsend - Michael Jackson - I heard on MTV that you prefer Boys II Men
Bif - To: Dr. Eckner - "Heya gorra loight, boy?"
Breadmaster - Martin Luther - "When in Rome..."
Rosie - To Tony Blair - No point in beating about the bush, eh? . . . (BreadM) I like that. Bit subtle, though.
Raak - To Mrs. Trellis: Move first? Ok, Mornington Crescent.
Audience - *shouts, screams, generally goes wild for Raak*
This is the end of the line. There is no more.