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Righto, Musick! Give that man a see-gar! and a Lewinsky to go with it
>That wasn’t the first time that line had been used in a movie. Many years earlier, in a classic Warner Brothers gangster movie ["White Heat"] tough guy Jimmy Cagney, being chased by police, stood on top of a burning tanker and screamed, “Look at me, ma –I'm the king of the world!"< Just before, I believe, he was blasted to bits by the coppers' machine-gun bullets (it was a short-loved reign).
But ashkually®, it was evidently none other than Alexander the Great who first used the phrase (albeit in Classic Greek), "King of the World."
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