The tale has many variations. Unlikely to have been Bessie Braddock. WC died in 1965 and was out of politics. It was reputed to be Lady Astor.
On Fri, Jan 3, 2020, 05:03 Seymour J Metz <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > To put it in context, WC called her ugly *before* she called him drunk. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf > of Nightwatch RenBand <johnmattson...@gmail.com> > Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2020 11:06 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: it was 20 years ago today > > Hey, Rupert! > Winston Churchill and the British politician Bessie Braddock. > Braddock encountered an intoxicated Churchill and said “Sir, you are > drunk.” > He replied:And you, Bessie, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning, > and you will still be ugly. > > https://secure-web.cisco.com/1OFrGwpGH70rWFs-EMrAUGN6jEySb0De7a6s2QRo2CooV41jBvUwt2DA-wvlsUv6Vkl8hQLFeQp838B2YxYNm3bXQYrUEDUbqL6uv0OdtAPbTmK3ntDdPqErj-pFyEwMc2ikZQl6Ec00T3S33_smVePsYfwcTRaZY7iKJQBPR83YKqmrpH11xvZ0VdPiqzb3aKAvwkdBC8VF9tCr_ZuzEqFowOpI4HBGUkOfwka_WOra-l-jpRsX-4P_wDQHNN-kLvdk09SuCPE8frNDO6BQ3sW0IbNQsCgfD2pbyw8VT0Mc5Y8qSciQg7vVLkK0XeqjFG8PIL9f9yugazObaPkSXhjVMJOP75CzEZ9UaneUrfag2vOvmBVI6JVU9ITlkvA3V/https%3A%2F%2Fquoteinvestigator.com%2F2011%2F08%2F17%2Fsober-tomorrow%2F > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
