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From: jsl@princeton.UUCP (Jong Lee)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: drunk...i'll be sober etc.
Message-ID: <1127@princeton.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 19-Oct-85 11:03:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: princeto.1127
Posted: Sat Oct 19 11:03:30 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Oct-85 05:22:20 EDT
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Organization: Princeton University EECS Dept
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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

I thought Churchill said this first(?)?
					Sun_Man
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