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"What in hell did posterity ever do for us?"
Sounds close enough for me.
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a similar construct is credited to Sir Boyle Roche: "Why should we do anything for posterity -- what has it ever done for us?"
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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
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oh my, Dan Quayle preincarnate! 8 )
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"What in hell did posterity ever do for us?"
Well, how else would we be able to sit?
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"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.
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Faldage! You Pooh-bated!
Hosannas! Let the cymbals crash; let the trumpets blare; let the dancing girls run through the streets!
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There was a time when a portion of my posterity used to sit in my lap, but I never sat on any of it.
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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.
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