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Re: trans: ugliness and sobriety

From:Roger Mills <romilly@...>
Date:Tuesday, April 3, 2001, 3:55
Adding to the Churchillian archive:


>On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, David Peterson wrote: > >> In a message dated 4/2/01 12:37:59 PM, valoczy@VCN.BC.CA writes: >> >> << Ah, the greatest quote ever from Winston Churchill. I've had numerous >> occasions on which I've said this... =) >> >> >> Do you know this one? >> >> Winston Churchill, a little soused, is at a party at which a woman is >> becoming rather offended by him. She says: >> "Sir, if I were your wife, I'd poison your tea!" >> Churchy's reply: "Madam, if I were your husband, I'd drink it." >> > >I didn't know that, but I love it!
Of (later Sir) Clement Atlee: "An empty cab drove up [to the House of Commons] and he got out." Not sure when he said it, but his dislike of Mr Atlee (Labour) was long-standing. The fact that, after guiding England through WW II and Saving Western Civilization, WSC had to hand over the PM-ship to Atlee in 1945 probably had little to do with it.