SC - re: Rules of Thumb
House Widdershins
widdershins at seanet.com
Thu Aug 28 21:57:59 PDT 1997
At 10:47 AM 8/28/97 -0700, you wrote:
snip
>"Live, live, live! Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving
to death!"
>
> - Auntie Mame
Actually, in the original book it goes-
"Live live live! Life is a banquet and most poor sons of bitches are
starving to death!" -Patrick Dennis
The Hayes commission got a hold of the quote when Roz Russell did the movie
in the '50's. ;-) Amazing how they watered everything down---but I was
amazed that my kids loved the movie (and play) as much as I did ! That is
a true story-I'd have loved to have met Mame Dennis, wouldn't you?
Written by my hand this 28th day of August, AS XXXII, being the feast of
Saint Augustine, at an hour past Compline, I remain,
Branuenn Goch
"The Celtic countries, by the way, are the only places where you can find
peat. God did this because he knew that the Celts were the only people who
drink so much that they would try to burn mud."
- ------P.J. O'Rourke "Trips to Nowhere" from ""Old Age and Guile Will
Beat Out Youth and Skill"
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