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To: ManyMoose who wrote (280551)	11/14/2008 11:25:11 AM
From: Ron M	4 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794351

Re: "Actually, I'm grateful that dueling is a thing of the past, but sometimes I wish people in places of power would be a little more honest about their reactions to insults." Subject: When Insults had Class -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The exchange between Winston Churchill & Lady Astor: She said, 'If you were my husband I'd give you poison,' and he replied, 'If you were my wife, I'd drink it.' A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' 'That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'on whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.' 'He had delusions of adequacy.' - Walter Kerr 'He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.' - Winston Churchill 'A modest little person, with much to be modest about.' - Winston Churchill 'I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.' Clarence Darrow 'He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.' - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway). 'Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?' - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner) 'Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.' Moses Hadas 'He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.' Abraham Lincoln 'I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.' - Mark Twain 'He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.' - Oscar Wilde 'I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one.' - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill 'Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.' - Winston Churchill, in response. 'I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.' -Stephen Bishop 'He is a self-made man and worships his creator.' - John Bright 'I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.' - Irvin S. Cobb 'He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.' - Samuel Johnson 'He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.' - Paul Keating 'There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.' Jack E. Leonard 'He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.' - Robert Redford 'They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.' - Thomas Brackett Reed 'In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.' Charles, Count Talleyrand 'He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.' - Forrest Tucker 'Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?' - Mark Twain 'His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.' - Mae West 'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.' - Oscar Wilde 'He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.' - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) 'He has Van Gogh's ear for music.' - Billy Wilder 'I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.' - Groucho Marx

To: ManyMoose who wrote (280551)	11/14/2008 9:25:58 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 794351

The Duke was a classy tough guy. :) There is a club named after John Randolph. "The "Beer-Hall conservatives" of the John Randolph Club meet annually in various cities throughout the republic for a weekend of—in the tradition of the club's namesake, John Randolph of Roanoke—oratory, spirited debate, and conviviality." en.wikipedia.org >>In January 1811, after John Randolph (VA) “prevailed upon the House to adjourn,” Willis Alston (NC) called him a “puppy” on the staircase leading from the chamber. Randolph then attacked Alston with his cane. in 1816, John Randolph (VA) challenged fellow representative Daniel Webster to a duel after being "worsted in debate" by him. However Webster apparently did not accept the validity of the challenge. On April 8 1826, Secretary of State Henry Clay harmlessly exchanged pistol shots (twice) with Senator John Randolph (Va.) after the latter called him a "blackleg" and implied that Clay had forged documents relating to a congress of countries of the Americas to be held in Panama. For good measure, Randolph also “rebuked Clay’s forbears for having begotten ‘this being so brilliant yet so corrupt, which, like a rotten mackerel in the moonlight, shined and stunk.” After Randolph assured an emissary from Clay that he would not hide behind the Constitutional protection for words spoken in the Senate, a challenge was issued. Is this the same Cannon the Cannon Office Building is named after? >>On March 15 1933, Reps. Clarence Cannon and Milton Romjue, both Democrats from Missouri, reportedly “engaged in an old fashioned fist fight” in the House Office Building. Rep. Ernest Lundeen (MN), who separated the fighters, claimed that Cannon got the better of Romjue. However, Cannon, a former House parliamentarian and the author of texts on procedures and precedents in Congress, denied a fight had taken place. At Romjue’s residence “it was said that the Missourian was confined at home because of an attack of influenza.” On May 29 1945, Rep. Clarence Cannon (MO) punched in the face John Taber (NY), the ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee. The two clashed in Cannon’s office after debate on a bill to provide members of Congress with a $2500 annual expense account. On June 22 1951, Rep. Clarence Cannon (MO) punched Rep. John Phillips (CA), who “suffered a lip cut which bled profusely but turned out not to be serious.” Phillips got into an argument with Cannon, the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, over an appointment to a conference committee. After Cannon called Phillips a liar, Phillips moved toward him, only to be struck in the face.