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Article #1250Re: Re: traditional values
From: Michael Ross
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1986 16:20
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1986 16:20
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>> I've heard that the above joke is from a true conversation >> of Bertrand Russell. Can anyone confirm? And while we're >> at it, there's the story of BR and a beautiful actress >> discussing what their children would be like. References? > >Wrong. It was George Bernard Shaw. >-- >jcpatilla > >"Not faint canaries but ambrosia.." >(name the original source) I've noticed that, if you don't know who said something witty, you're probably safe to attribute it to: 1) George Bernard Shaw 2) Mark Twain 3) Winston Churchill and on certain occasions: 4) Oscar Wilde except if it contains mangled English, in which case it's: 5) Yogi Berra 6) Leo Durocher 7) Casey Stengel --MKR :-)
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mmm.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!stolaf!mmm!mrgofor From: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (Michael Ross) Newsgroups: net.jokes.d,net.philosophy Subject: Re: Re: traditional values Message-ID: <464@mmm.UUCP> Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 11:20:44 EST Article-I.D.: mmm.464 Posted: Wed Feb 5 11:20:44 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Feb-86 07:35:32 EST References: <263@galbp.UUCP> <418@cisden.UUCP> <1124@oddjob.UUCP> <451@cisden.UUCP> <1207@lll-crg.ARpA> <2225@aecom.UUCP> <11639@ucbvax.BERK5 Feb 86 16:20:44 GMT Reply-To: mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (Michael Ross) Distribution: net Organization: 3M Company, St. Paul, Minn. Lines: 28