quotable

[Shapiro, Fred]

No, I think that's a Woody Allenism (YBQ 1975) that the Scotsman confusedly attributed to Spike Milligan in 2002.

Fred Shapiro



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YBQ offers one quote from British writer and comedian Spike Milligan, which
it then explains he swiped from somebody else.

I trust this one was entirely original, however: "I don't mind dying. I just
don't want to be there when it happens."

http://news.scotsman.com/spikemilligan/I-dont-mind-dying-.2306177.jp


JL

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