Insults.
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The long feud between John Wilkes, one-time M.P. and author of the 'obscene libel' the Essay on Woman, and the Earl of Sandwich, who brought about his political downfall, became notorious in the eighteenth century. The two men had refused to speak to each other, and when they met accidentally Wilkes more than got his own back in this famous exchange.
'Sir,' said Sandwich, 'you will die either of the pox or on the gallows.'
'That, my lord,' replied Wilkes, 'depends on whether I embrace your lordship's mistress or your principles.'
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Another one ....
The infamous seventeenth-century judge. George Jeffreys, pointed his stick at one of the rebels hauled before him in the famous 'bloody assizes' saying:
'There is a rogue at the end of my cane.'
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Originally posted by seotiblizzard:
Another one ....
The infamous seventeenth-century judge. George Jeffreys, pointed his stick at one of the rebels hauled before him in the famous 'bloody assizes' saying:
'There is a rogue at the end of my cane.'
'At which end, my Lord?' retorted the man.
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'If you were my husband I'd poison your coffee,' Lady Astor told Sir Winston Churchill during one of the many rows they had.
'If you were my wife, I'd drink it,' he told her. -
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Originally posted by seotiblizzard:
The long feud between John Wilkes, one-time M.P. and author of the 'obscene libel' the Essay on Woman, and the Earl of Sandwich, who brought about his political downfall, became notorious in the eighteenth century. The two men had refused to speak to each other, and when they met accidentally Wilkes more than got his own back in this famous exchange.
'Sir,' said Sandwich, 'you will die either of the pox or on the gallows.'
'That, my lord,' replied Wilkes, 'depends on whether I embrace your lordship's mistress or your principles.'
some1 explain this pls!
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. Which part u dont understand??
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the punchline lor. . . about his mistress or principles. .
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Cos if he embrace his mistress, he will get pox, if he embrace the earl's principles, he will go to the gallows la.
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ouh. . ahaha i slow. . . thnx for explaining