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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!mintaka.lcs.mit.edu!hal!mjd
  2. From: mjd@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Sievan Janacziewski)
  3. Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
  4. Subject: Churchill and Astor
  5. Summary: poisoned coffee
  6. Message-ID: <mjd.711991214@hal>
  7. Date: 24 Jul 92 15:20:14 GMT
  8. Sender: news@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu
  9. Followup-To: soc.net-people
  10. Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
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  13. Nancy McPhee, in _The book of Insults_, says that the famous exchange was:
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  15. Lady Astor:
  16.     ``If you were my husband, Winston, I should flavour your 
  17.       coffee with poison.''
  18.  
  19. Winston Churchill:
  20.     ``If I _were_ your husband, madam, I should drink it.''
  21.  
  22. Astor was a Viscountess.
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  24. mjd@gnu.ai.mit.edu
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