Re: I had to share these :)
Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Sun, 17 Oct 1999 11:48:48 -0400
At 9:44 PM -0400 on 10/16/1999, Jim wrote:
> 272 years ago (1727),
>
> Political maverick John Wilkes (_Essay on Women_) is born in
> London. A famous, perhaps apocryphal, interchange will take place
> with Lord Sandwich, when the latter sputters: "Wilkes, you will die
> of a pox or on the gallows," to which Wilkes replies: "That depends,
> my lord, on whether I embrace your lordship's mistress or your
> lordship's principles."
I've heard this one, but for some reason I always thought it was
Churchill, who had a few good ripostes of his own, all of which elude
me at the moment.
It's funny to see little sprouts like this, which may seem irrelevant
to this list; a lot of this list is about language and communication
and ephemera, and to my eyes this kind of aside is as valuable as
additional discourse about Salinger work. They complement each other.
--tim
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