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Posted By: wwh Mr. Dooley - 08/29/01 03:40 PM
While out on my two mile morning constitutional, something reminded me of Finley Peter Dunne's Mr.Dooley, and his remark about posterity, which I cannot quote accurately: "What in hell did posterity ever do for us?"

Please, can someone quote it correctly?

Here are a couple URLs to his quotes:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/6517/291.htm

http://www.threadcity.com/irishclub/dooley.html

http://209.237.136.137/text-page-FPDunne2.htm


Posted By: Faldage Re: Mr. Dooley - 08/29/01 03:56 PM
"What in hell did posterity ever do for us?"

Sounds close enough for me.

Posted By: tsuwm Re: Mr. Dooley - 08/29/01 04:58 PM
a similar construct is credited to Sir Boyle Roche: "Why should we do anything for
posterity -- what has it ever done for us?"

Posted By: wwh Re: Mr. Dooley - 08/29/01 06:21 PM
Dear tsuwm: I had never heard of Sir Boyle Roche, but found some quotations from him. He would never have been equal to Finley Peter Dunne in a debate. You have to scroll down a ways.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Revlist/message/17902

Posted By: tsuwm Re: Sir Boyle - 08/29/01 06:42 PM
oh my, Dan Quayle preincarnate! 8 )

Posted By: Jazzoctopus Re: Mr. Dooley - 08/29/01 08:51 PM
"What in hell did posterity ever do for us?"

Well, how else would we be able to sit?

Posted By: Faldage Re: Mr. Dooley - 08/29/01 08:57 PM
"What in hell did posterity ever do for us?"

Well, how else would we be able to sit?

BravO, JazzO! Couldn't have said it better myself.

Posted By: Keiva Re: Elevation - 08/29/01 10:26 PM
Faldage! You Pooh-bated!

Hosannas! Let the cymbals crash; let the trumpets blare; let the dancing girls run through the streets!

Posted By: wwh Re: Elevation - 08/29/01 10:41 PM
There was a time when a portion of my posterity used to sit in my lap, but I never sat on any of it.

Posted By: TEd Remington Boyle Roche, - 08/30/01 12:00 AM
When I was in college, we used to have smoked roche, but I certainly don't recall boiling any. If you did that you would have to worry about the tea roche price.

Posted By: wow Re: Trust everybody but cut the cards - PFD . - 08/30/01 10:58 PM
Oh, Ted -- it's so goooood to have you back on form!
GLAL (groaned long and loud.)tea roche price -- Ohmigawd!

Ted : Try this http://
www.workinghumor.com/quotes/finley_peter_dunne.shtml

for some PFDunne punny sayings.

Dunne wrote for a Boston newspaper in the Irish dialect, commenting on politics and life mostly which, today, is difficult to read in the original if you don't have a working acquaintence with the Irish accent. However there are some of the columns in "regular" American in a book. Now out of print but available here and there I hear.


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