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Thread #43581   Message #638663
Posted By: GUEST,Pete Peterson
30-Jan-02 - 10:45 AM
Thread Name: BS: Great Misquotations
Subject: RE: BS: Great Misquotations
Mr Red-- not completely familiar with the works of Mae West but at the end of My Little Chickadee, FIELDS says to her "come up and see me sometime" and WEST says "my little chickadee". . . close but, as Groucho would say, no cigar.
the Churchill quote, IIRC, is "I have NOTHING to OFFER but blood, toil, tears and sweat." It went into folklore in shortened form partly because there was a book of his collected speeches published w the "blood sweat and tears" title.
and the reward was 25 pounds, offered when he escaped from the Boers. (WSC claimed that a copy of the reward poster was what broke the ice between him and Michael Collins at the peace conference over partition. Went something like
Collins "You put a price on my head"
Churchill (gets poster)" Well, at least it was a good price. This is all they though I was worth at the time."