The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #79666   Message #1454592
Posted By: gnu
07-Apr-05 - 01:57 PM
Thread Name: BS: Telling someone to F... off politely
Subject: RE: BS: Telling someone to F... off politely
Off topic a bit... I recall the late Pierre Elliot Trudeau dealing with a rather persistant heckler one time. He finally invited the young man to approach the dais, leaned over to him and, covering his mouth from view, said something. The young man fell silent.

Later, when asked by the press what he had said, Trudeau replied something like (memory fails me), "I simply spoke to him in a language I knew he would undertsand." Of course, the fact was that whatever he said, he could back up, and did on more than one occasion.

Now, back to the scrap, er, session. What HAPPENED?