Oh.. this is good stuff...
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
Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one. - Winston Churchill, in response.
"from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words" oh please... Its's not as if the average man on the street in those times would have such verbal deftness. and there are people today who can make even even G.B. Shaw look like an autistic. I am so sick of this "the good old days were so much better" bullshit.