Just came across this once again and thought I post it because it's one of my favourite historical anecdotes.

On a formal dinner Winston Churchill met a lady who apparently was a convinced opponent of him and his policies.
She told him: "If you were my husband, I would poison your tea."
Churchill looked at her and replied: "If you were my wife, I would drink it.

Heh, very nice !

It is nice altough i don`t understand quite well.

Well, Xen, Churchill was saying that he would rather be dead than be married to that woman.

Faceman, I love things like that. I can believe that he would say something like that, though it may be purely anecdotal.

did he really said that?

I assumed it`s something along these lines,but I wa not sure. Thanks!

He said it to Lady Astor.

His other famous put down was to Bessie Braddock MP

Bessie: Winston you're drunk!
Winston: Yes Bessie, and you're ugly, but I'll be sober in the morning!

[img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] Stop it, I'm dying. [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

It's not so much the joke but the imagination of Churchill saying that. He rocks :D