WHOA...El Diablo !?

[Captain Sousie]

damn!

I believe, sir that is the point.

Sousie the darned

[Captain Sousie]

Oh bloody hell. It seems that my attempts to elaborate homorously on the use of 'colorful metaphors' and their origins in the english language are, yet again, sadly misinterpreted as misunderstanding.

Captain "Going back to read my Dante and Neitchzie now instead of Miltin for the hundredth time" Sousie

[Captain Sousie]

Sorry, Milton

[Captain Sousie]

That's ok, Susie. We forgive you.

OOPS! Sorry. That's "Sousie", isn't it?

Doc

Thanks, I'll sleep better tonight.

[Captain Sousie]

Where's the fun in that?

[TMurphy]

I guess i dont know what el diablo looks like then.

El Diablo is spanish for "the devil"

[Chuck(G)]

Joe, you're clearly confused. It's simply Buescher anticipating this product:



which, under the new drug plan, will be covered by Medicare

[cjk]

... obviously a Hellicon


Christian "wondering if that instrument (after plating) is made up of 30 pieces"

[tubatooter1940]

I believe,bloke,that you have stumbled on the devil's tuba.

[Ames0325]

Looks like my High School's mascot. We were the Demons.

[Captain Sousie]

El Pollo Diablo! El Pollo Diablo!

[Chuck(G)]

"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly." (Sir Winston Churchill, 1874-1965)

This has bothered me ever since I saw it as your signature. Not because of the content, only because I remember it quite differently. A web search turned up various versions, some more vitirolic than others, but the Churchill Centre (www.winstonchurchill.org) comments:

SUFFOLK, UK, SEPTEMBER 28TH- J. Brian Blacklock claimed in the Daily Telegraph that the exchange between Bessie Braddock MP (Lab., Liverpool) and Churchill (Cons., Woodford) in 1946 ("Winston, you're drunk!"... "Bessie, you're ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober and you shall still be ugly.") is a myth: "This was first recorded, word for word, in the mid 18th century in a London theatre between a bibulous latecomer and a lady whose enjoyment of the play had been disturbed."

We don't dispute the origins, but bodyguard Ronald Golding said he was standing next to Churchill and heard the remark. Having found Golding a sincere individual, we accept his story until it is disproved. Churchill may have read theatre exchange and housed it in Churchill's capacious memory. His uncharacteristically ungallant response to a lady came, Golding believed, because Churchill was manifestly not drunk, just tired and wobbly. See Lord Carrington, p.19, for another Churchill remark re Mrs. Braddock. ‹Ed.

I find the story very plausible and, very reminiscent of something from the 1934 W.C. Fields film "It's a Gift":

Rich man: "You're drunk!"
Fields: "And you're crazy. But I'll be sober tomorrow and you'll be crazy the rest of your life."

I wonder if Sir WInston watched W. C. Fields?

Forgive the mindless OT remark, but it was bothering me something awful.

[Captain Sousie]

I also remember it differently and in an attempt to get it right, I went to http://www.quotationreference.com and looked it up as well as perusing my wife's two quotations dictionaries. It showed up the same in each place but, to tell the truth, I was still not convinced that it was right. I put it in anyway because I like the quote so much but, I think that it is time to switch to a less suspect quote. It is an interesting subject though.

David

[ken k]

I bet if you put it on ebay it will bring big bucks just like the virgin mary grilled cheese sandwich......