[Spridgets] OK, since we are all getting testy here... when insults had class

[Michael Conn]

Larry,

Got a good laugh from these.   Thank you.

Michael

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Spridgets List" <spridgets at autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:35 PM
Subject: [Spridgets] OK, since we are all getting testy here... when insults 
had class


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> "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." --  
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> dictionary." -- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
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> "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." -- Groucho 
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> "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a
> friend... If you have one." -- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill...
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> Samuel Johnson
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> "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." -- Mae West
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> Lady Astor once remarked to Winston Churchill at a dinner party, "Winston, 
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> Churchill replied, "Madam, if I were your husband I would drink it!"
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