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[James Landau]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 22:23:46 Zone-0400  ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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Way back in June 2018 Ben Zimmer kindly brought my attention to a
tweet by top slang  and quotation researcher Jonathon Green containing
a wonderful 1880 citation showing an instance of a quip that falls
within a family of jokes that is often associated with Winston
Churchill:

https://twitter.com/bgzimmer/status/1011091906170900481
https://twitter.com/MisterSlang/status/1010947018892759041


The QI website also has an antique article from 2011 focused on the
Churchill anecdote which has now been updated.

Yes, I Am Drunk, But You Are Ugly. Tomorrow I Will Be Sober, And You
Will Still Be Ugly
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/08/17/sober-tomorrow/

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When I was in the British Isles in 1969, a Dublin bus-driver claimed to have heard the following dialog on a bus he was the driver of:
Passenger to Sean O'Casey:  You are drunkO'Casey: And you are ugly.  But tomorrow I shall be sober.
James Landau
jjjrlandau at netscape.com

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