Reminds me of the famous exchange that supposedly took place between Bessie Braddock (a female MP in the Labor Party, which had taken over power from Winston Churchill's Conservatives the year before) and Churchill in 1946:Braddock: "Winston, you're drunk!"
Churchill: "Bessie, you're ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober and you shall still be ugly."
I've always thought that this story was an urban legend, but one Churchill Web site believes it to be true, despite the fact that a similar story circulated about a century prior:
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/fh111datelines.htm
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.
P.S. Another Churchill quote that I love:
MP (during a Commons debate): "Must you fall asleep while I'm speaking?"
Churchill: "No, it's purely voluntary."
Oh my heck, it's Greg Brady! Obviously, Blake fits the Johnny Bravo suit.Rude, snotty, mean, horrible, nasty, witch, yadda yadda yadda...