Wednesday, December 10, 2008

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Ahhh... good old Winston Churchill.

Not to "cum tess" your knowledge on this one, DV, but you are aware of the origins of this one, right?

Pretty funny...

Denmark Vesey said...

Nah Doc. I aint hip.

But I do recall Chruchill was quick with the wit.

Something like: “Sir, you are drunk.”

“Madam, and you are ugly. In the morning, I shall be sober.”

Anonymous said...

Well, in a nutshell, there was a woman whom Mr. Churchill met, at a party or government function or what hvae you and the two exchanged words. She uttered the former and he, the timeless rejoiner.

Anonymous said...

From Wikipeedjer (a very British pronunciation of the site, seems appropo here.) Turns out the lady he was talking to was Lady Nancy Astor:

He once told her that having a woman in Parliament was like having one intrude on him in the bathroom, to which she retorted, "You’re not handsome enough to have such fears". Another time when Lady Astor was giving a costume ball, Churchill asked her what disguise she would recommend for him. She replied, "Why don't you come sober, Prime Minister?" The most famous of all such anecdotes occurred when Lady Astor said to Churchill, "If you were my husband, I'd poison your tea." To which he responded, "Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it!"

Sounds to me a lot like a game of intellectual flirtation between mutually interested parties. (though I could be wrong.) I thought she was a hapless woman who happened to get caught by the Churchill's razor sharp wit, but turns out she held her own in that department. Guess I learned something myself.