Dove feathers in the President's mouth etc

[David Gentle]

<<...dead silence as she counted my payment of coins and handed me back my receipt.  Then she looked
up at me, her usually animated face tense and cold, her chattery little red-lipsticked mouth
startlingly tight.  "Well," says Joanie through her teeth, "It's a good thing we live in a country
where people can express their own views about things (pause) and not get shot!" (Clearly indicating
by her tone of voice that I was fortunate she hadn't a weapon at hand)  Realizing my faux pas, I
decided to go all the way.  So I answered her remarks by saying, "Not yet anyway."  I don't think
they'll carry my tab at Dave's next time.

Elaine M.M. Bell, Writer>>

"Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and
I'll show you someone with no brains." - Winston Churchill

http://www.fightthebias.com/Quotes/winston_churchill.htm

Though elsewhere this is said to be false:
http://www.winstonchurchill.org/myths/falsequotes.htm

David Gentle