Sir Winston Churchill

[clbevilacqua]

Since a couple of you have said that you enjoy reading of him, I thought I would recommend a book my husband received as a gift and we both found to be quite hilarious "The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill". It is a compilation of things he said during his lifetime-most of them just downright funny-I can always just picture him in my mind-delivering his witicisms with such a straight demeanor the recipient is never quite sure if he meant to be funny or if he was serious! An excellent and quick read (only 160 pages and not tightly typed), although I do confess that my husband and I have both read the book over several times! Here is one of my personal favs:

"At a reception in Richmond, VA, in the USA, his hostess, an ample lady, led Winston S. Churchill, the guest of honour, to the buffett table. When she offered him some cold chicken, he asked if he could have a breast. As she helped him to a particularly succulent-looking piece his hostess informed him genteely that 'We Southern ladies use the term "white meat".' The next day a corsage arrived for her-with the flowers was a card from Churchill on which he had written, 'I would be most obliged if you would pin this on your "white meat".'

-Cathy

[Fiddle-Faddle]

Thank you so much--this is the perfect gift for my dad!

[debmidge]

Cathy, I think you and I have same taste in books. Have you ever read "Gone with the Wind."

I also recommend any of the older Leon Uris books like Exodus.