Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/05/09

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Canadian lenses
From: Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 13:39:09 -0400

on 5/9/01 1:17 PM, Paul Chefurka at Paul_Chefurka@pmc-sierra.com wrote:

> The "but you're ugly, and tomorrow I'll be sober" quote is a well-known
> Churchillianism.  There is some dispute as to whether it was said to Lady
> Astor or Liverpool socialist MP Bessie Braddock.

On the one hand, Bessie Braddock was considerably uglier than Lady Astor.

On the other, it sounds much more like something Lady Astor would have said.

(and Churchill was much more likely to talk to A than B).
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John Brownlow

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