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From: cim@pyuxv.UUCP (Bellcore CIM)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: drunk...i'll be sober etc.
Message-ID: <152@pyuxv.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Oct-85 16:45:45 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 17 16:45:45 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Oct-85 04:25:19 EDT
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In the movie "It's a gift", with W. C. Fields, made around 1935-1938 or
thereabouts, Fields, who is encountering a typical rich bastard, engages
in the following conversation:

Rich Guy: Is this your place???
Fields: Yes, it is.
RG: Do you want to sell it?
F: I might consider it, but it'll alter my plans....
RG: I'll give you 4,000 for it (He wants it to build a race track)
F: Nothing doin'

(and now, here it comes)

RG: You're Drunk!
F: You're Crazy; but I'll be sober tomorrow, and you'll be crazy for the
	rest of your life.

This line apparently comes from an old vaudeville act that Fields must
have heard on the circuit, (He might have made it up).  I believe it
goes, (I heard this from an old vaudevillian):

	You're Drunk!
	You're Ugly; but I'll be sober tomorrow, and you'll be ugly
		for the rest of your life.

Churchill must have seen the movie.

-- G. Bogatko