#39964
08/29/2001 3:56 PM
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"What in hell did posterity ever do for us?"
Sounds close enough for me.
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#39965
08/29/2001 4:58 PM
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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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#39966
08/29/2001 6:21 PM
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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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#39967
08/29/2001 6:42 PM
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oh my, Dan Quayle preincarnate! 8 )
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#39968
08/29/2001 8:51 PM
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old hand
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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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#39969
08/29/2001 8:57 PM
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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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#39970
08/29/2001 10:26 PM
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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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#39971
08/29/2001 10:41 PM
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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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#39972
08/30/2001 12:00 AM
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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.
TEd
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#39973
08/30/2001 10:58 PM
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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.shtmlfor 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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