09-04-2005, 08:16
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Re: Inults
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Originally Posted by pendy
"Sir, I am unsure whether you will die on the scaffold or of the pox!"
Response? -
"That, my Lord, depends on whether I embrace your Lordship's morals, or your Lordship's mistress!"
Nice one!
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That was between the Earl of Sandwich and John Wilkes.
I love this one:
"She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer, made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious."
(Somerset Maugham but no idea who he was talking about |
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