Re: OT: national humor
| From: | Roger Mills <romilly@...> |
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| Date: | Sunday, May 11, 2003, 23:59 |
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David Barrow wrote:
> John Cowan wrote:
>
> > Harald Stoiber scripsit:
> >
> > > Germans and Austrians differ by speaking the same language.
> >
> > "England and America are two countries divided by a common language."
> > --George Bernard Shaw
> >
>
> Didn't Oscar Wilde say something similar as well?
>
No, but he wishes he had.
(Apocryphal? Wildeana: James McNeill Whistler had delived a particularly
brilliant _mot_, upon which Wilde exclaimed: "Whistler, I wish I'd said
that!" and Whistler replied, "You will, Oscar, you will........")
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