On Wed, 29 Dec 2010 12:39 -0500, "John Sessoms" <[email protected]>
wrote:
> From: "Brian Walters"
> 
> > On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 23:56 -0500, "John Sessoms" <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >> > Well, as Harpo Marx always said ...
> >> >
> >
> > Harpo or Groucho?
> >
> 
> Indeed, Harpo.
> 
> Perhaps the humor was a little too dry. Would it make more sense as 
> "Well, as Marcel Marceau always said ..."?
> 



Probably.

I was thinking more along the lines of Groucho's "I wouldn't want to
belong to a club that would accept me as a member" - or words to that
effect....

:-)>


Cheers

Brian

++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/



> (Both had famous on-screen personae notable for their non-speaking
> roles.)
> 
> Harpo had a reputation as a raconteur off screen and there are some 
> quite pithy comments attributed to him. The one I remembered best was 
> about Harpo's "membership" in the Algonquin Round Table ... that "The 
> price of admission is a serpent's tongue and a half-concealed stiletto."
> 
> Although upon researching the quote I find it attributed to Groucho 
> Marx, describing Harpo's association with "The Vicious Circle".
> 
> But Harpo was who I meant.
> 
> As Harpo Marx always said ... (silence).
> 
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