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- From: olson@husc8.harvard.edu (Chip Olson@somewhere.out.there)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: British Parliament quote (Disraeli?)
- Message-ID: <OLSON.92Dec25000132@husc8.harvard.edu>
- Date: 25 Dec 92 05:01:32 GMT
- References: <RODRIGUE.92Dec24171925@diamond.CS.Yale.Edu>
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- In-reply-to: rodrigue@CS.Yale.Edu's message of 24 Dec 92 17:19:25 GMT
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- In article <RODRIGUE.92Dec24171925@diamond.CS.Yale.Edu> rodrigue@CS.Yale.Edu (Joe Rodrigue) writes:
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- >Can someone correct me on this, it is a famous exchange between British
- >legislators. I would like to know the speakers, the date and circumstances,
- >etc:
- >
- >A: [Would you bring a pox down on all of us, or just yourself?] (*very* approximate)
- >
- >B: That depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.
-
- Argh, I can't remember who it was, but the first part is:
- "Sir, I predict that you willl die either on the gallows or of some loathsome
- disease."
-
- British legislators are a funny bunch; Parliament has rules about what insults
- cannot be used on the floor- like charlatan, guttersnipe and the like.
-
-
- --
- -Chip Olson. | olson@husc.harvard.edu | ceo@{gnu.ai,silver.lcs}.mit.edu
- "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down?
- Maybe we would if they screamed all the time for no good reason." -unknown
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