"George M. Middius" > wrote in message

> Nah... This isn't a publishing forum.

True, but this is a discussion group and Michael and I were in fact having a
discussion. True, we had drifted OT but then so is much of what goes on
here.

Everybody recognizes the line as
> being spoken by Churchill. Whether he cribbed it somewhere doesn't
> matter because whoever may have said it earlier didn't have
> Churchill's weight. Next time there's a thread about chocolate cake,
> watch for me to say "I can resist everything except temptation." Will
> you then commend whoever points out it wasn't my line, or will you nod
> in recognition of the thought?

Now, you aren't really so needy that you are already lining up responses to
your future posts are you George?