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[RKP5637]

1. Well said!!! n/t

[OhNo-Really]

27. Thank you ☺️

[Aristus]

2. I never repeat gossip!

So listen carefully the first time...

[cwydro]

4. Lol, reminds me of a past wit (forgotten who it was) who said -

“If you don’t have anything good to say about anyone, come over here and sit beside me.”

[Aristus]

5. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, TR's eldest daughter.

"If you can't say something nice about someone, come sit right here next to me!"

[cwydro]

6. You know? I thought it was a presidential something or other lol, but was too lazy to look it up.

I was thinking Eleanor, but knew that wasn’t right.

Thanks! It’s a great quote.

[Aristus]

7. Eleanor could never be that waspish.

She had the soft heart, Alice had the sharp tongue.

[cwydro]

8. Of course you're right.

As much as I hate gossip, I love that quote.

Kind of Dorothy Parkerish, ya know?

Speaking of her: do you know the one when she was a correspondent for some paper and was in England or Paris or somewhere, editor trying to reach her, she left a note on her door or with the switchboard, not sure which - and it said something like “sorry, too fucking busy” and then she added “or too busy fucking.”

God I wish we had someone like her around today!

[Aristus]

11. Yeah, I think I heard that one too, a long time ago.

It's nice to be reminded of it.

She was really something.

The whole Algonquin Round Table was amazing.

Just like Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley liked his dry martinis, too. But usually as something to slip into when he was wet...

[cwydro]

13. Bwaha!

Stop it!

[Aristus]

14. You want me to stop it?

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."

[cwydro]

15. Lol!

I’m not a vodka person, but have had a whisky tonight.

Not in any way able to counter your wit, my man! Love it though.

Not looking that up, Churchill? Noel Coward? Who?

[Aristus]

16. Finally, I'm stumped.

Speaking of Churchill, ever hear the story about the wife of a certain Member of Parliament and political enemy of Winston Churchill?

Encountering him at a party, she buttonholed him and told him: "Mr. Churchill, if I was your wife, I'd poison your coffee!"

He replied: "Madame, if you were my wife, I'd drink it."

[cwydro]

17. Ha! And wasn't he the one that said something about being sober in the morning, but she'd still

be ugly...something like that.

Not fond of insults against women, but that one seems to have deserved it lol.

[Aristus]

18. Yeah. It might even have been to the same person.

Public figures always have their favorite enemies...

[cwydro]

19. Yes indeed.

I think that political enemies in those days, certainly in Britain, knew who the real enemy was.

[Aristus]

20. Yeah.

Scotland.

GERMANY! I meant Germany!...

[cwydro]

21. I have to look that up.

As to whom she was speaking about.

But nearing under the table, not anywhere under the host.

So I’ll look that up tomorrow. (As Scarlett O’Hara might have said)

[Aristus]

22. That's enough whiskey for you!

[cwydro]

23. Yes indeed!

There should be a shame emoji lol.

[Aristus]

24. Is this close enough?

[cwydro]

25. Oh my goodness, perfect.

[Aristus]

29. Just finished a glass of nice, peaty Lagavulin...

Perfect.

Good night...

[emmaverybo]

26. I adore that one.

[wendyb-NC]

28. Ha Haaaa. I love that one.

[cwydro]

3. Lot of that going on lately.

Seems to be as long as it’s about the other side - we don’t care if it’s true.

Not a good trend for DU.

[mercuryblues]

9. We have an alert system where juries/ members

decide if a post should stay or be deleted. The Mods are good at removing and banning trolls.

The alert button is in the low, left corner of the text box.

[OhNo-Really]

10. Omg! I never noticed the "alert button".

Will use that for “other side” comments. Thank you.

Wonder if moderators notice cumulatively bad actors?

[mercuryblues]

12. They do.

I pretty much stay out of the primary forum. The closer to the primaries, the uglier it'll get. Then *poof* it will get removed from the forums after the primaries are over, fences get mended and almost everyone will be all in for the nominee.