Acts 22:16
Maurice A. O'Sullivan
mauros at iol.ie
Thu Jul 13 12:05:09 EDT 2000
At 16:35 13/07/00, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:
> Drat that rascally Dr. Conrad -- going around and stirring up trouble!
Nearly as bad as the late lamented Lord Whitelaw who once accused an
opponent of
" going around stirring up apathy ". -- as gnomic an utterance as any
politician could wish for.
Universally known as Willie Whitelaw, before _and_ after his ennoblement,
he was highly valued as a " troubleshooter " by Margaret Thatcher. whose
grasp of demotic English was so poor that she paid tribute to him by
proclaiming " every Prime Minister needs a Willie ".
Regards
Maurice
Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie
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