Wordie: If: Comments

Comment by MiaLuthien, 2 months ago

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:16:50 +0000

The Latvian equivalent for the "if" statement is ja tantei būtu riteņi, tante būtu tramvajs, or "if your auntie had wheels, she'd be a streetcar". That's a very, very old expression, and it is still in use today.

Comment by bestiary, 2 months ago

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:10:41 +0000

"balls!" said the queen: "if i had two, i'd be king."

Comment by plethora, 2 months ago

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:47:06 +0000

Or, contrastingly, if your auntie had balls, she'd be your uncle.

Comment by johnmperry, 2 months ago

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:31:41 +0000

UK response to statement starting If..
"If my uncle had tits he'd be my auntie."

Comment by yarb, 3 months ago

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:57:48 +0000

Oh dear. Tonight I was that close – that close to being infamous. I don't want to be infamous. I want to be... f'mous. Famous. Like the Rudyard Kipling poem, 'If'. You know that? 'If' you do X, Y and Z, Bob's your uncle.

- I'm Alan Partridge, episode 4, BBC TV.

Comment by yarb, 3 months ago

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:54:58 +0000

...if it's 6 o'clock
you can hear the News;
if you can hear the News
you have ears. Therefore
if it's 6 you've ears...

- Peter Reading, 5x5x5x5x5, 1983

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Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:03:52 +0000

If by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son.