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DistressedAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 09:55 AM
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Poll question: What Famous Historical Figure Made The Following Remarks?
"Cultured people are merely the glittering scum which floats upon the deep river of production."

I'll tell you the TRUE answer after noon...
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kliljedahl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 10:01 AM
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1. Winston Churchill 1929
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DistressedAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 10:02 AM
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2. Maybe...
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Village Idiot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 10:23 AM
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3. Who else but Churchi(Orwe)ll???
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 10:26 AM
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4. Definitely Churchill.
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 10:30 AM
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5. More Churchill quotes....
I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most desired to see was the one described as "The Boneless Wonder". My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralising and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see the The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench.
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Lady Astor (Dora Salty) to Churchill "Winston, if you were my husband I would flavour your coffee with poison."
Churchill: "Madam, if I were your husband, I should drink it."

Bessie Braddock to Churchill "Winston, you're drunk!"
Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober."

Cultured people are merely the glittering scum which floats upon the deep river of production.

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DistressedAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 10:33 AM
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7. What A Wordsmith!
gotta love the classic:
Bessie Braddock to Churchill "Winston, you're drunk!"
Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, and tomorrow morning I shall be sober."
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DistressedAmerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-22-05 10:32 AM
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6. Well, Why Wait? The Churchill's Have It! Hope You Didn't Google!
A big gold start to everyone that answered Churchill (unless you cheated)!
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