Fwd: A Few Thoughts on Cat Baths... By The Cats

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From: MOM
Date: Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:41 AM
Subject: A Few Thoughts on Cat Baths... By The Cats
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A few thoughts on cat baths... By The Cats:
'No, no, no, no..... NOOOOOO!

'I want my Mommmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!'

'Traction.... I'm losing Traction!'

'No, I'm not your Good Little Kitty anymore.'

'E.T. Phone home...... Quick!'

'You SUCK!'

'I don't think I like you anymore.'

'Jeeez, you call this water warm?'

'You will pay, as God is my witness, you will pay.'

'But You Said You Loved Me!'

FW: DO NOT SWALLOW YOUR CHEWING-GUM

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From: MOM
Date: Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:08 AM
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To: KID


DO NOT SWALLOW YOUR CHEWING-GUM

or else, see what happens:

Fwd: [Fwd: Political Put Downs]

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Winston Churchill had been drinking heavily at a party when he bumped into Bessie Braddock, a Socialist Member of Parliament.

"Mr. Churchill, you are drunk," Braddock said harshly.

Churchill paused and said, "And Bessie, you are ugly. You are very ugly. I'll be sober in the morning."

* * *

Henry Clay was sitting outside a Washington hotel with Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster.

They watched a man walk by with a pack of mules and Webster remarked, "Clay, there goes a number of your Kentucky constituents."

"Yes," Clay replied, "they must be on their way to Massachusetts to teach school."

* * *

John Wilkes, an eighteenth-century political reformer, was involved in a particularly angry exchange with John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich. "Sir," Montagu exclaimed, "I do not know whether you will die on the gallows or of the pox!"

To which Wilkes responded, "That, sir, depends on whether I first embrace your Lordship's principles or your Lordship's mistresses."

* * *

During a television debate against incumbent U.S. Senator Fritz Hollings in 1986, Republican candidate Henry McMaster challenged his opponent to take a drug test.

"I'll take a drug test," Hollings responded, "if you'll take an IQ test."

* * *

In the fifth century B.C., Alcibiades debated his uncle, the Greek orator Pericles.

"When I was your age, Alcibiades, I talked just the way you are now talking," Pericles said.

"If only I had known you, Pericles," Alcibiades replied, "when you were at your best."

* * *

At the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919, Georges Clemenceau held out for the harshest terms against Germany. Someone pointed out that historians would be arguing for generations over who was responsible for starting the Great War.

"Yes," Clemenceau said, "but one thing is certain: They will not say that Belgium invaded Germany."

* * *

During one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates, U.S. Senator Stephen Douglas called Abraham Lincoln "two-faced."

To which Lincoln replied, "I leave it to my audience. If I had another face, do you think I would wear this one?"

* * *

Just after the 1992 Republication National Convention, Vice President Dan Quayle revealed that he planned to be "a pit bull" in the upcoming campaign against the Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton and his running mate Al Gore.

When Clinton was asked for his reaction, he replied: "That's got every fire hydrant in America worried."

* * *

When the Reverend Edward Everett Hale was chaplain of the U.S. Senate, he was asked if he prayed for the Senators.

"No," he said. "I look at the Senators and pray for the country."

* * *

Once when television reporter Andrew Kirtzman was interviewing New York Mayor Ed Koch, the reporter pressed the mayor on an inconsistency.

Finally, Koch, a bit frustrated, leaned closer to the reporter and said, "I can explain this to you; I can't comprehend it for you."

* * *

A foreign diplomat walked into Abraham Lincoln's office while the president was polishing his shoes.

"Mr. President!" the startled diplomat said with disdain, "you black your own boots?"

"Yes," Lincoln said, "whose boots do you black?"

* * *

Playwright George Bernard Shaw invited Winston Churchill to the first night of his newest play, enclosing two tickets: "One for yourself and one for a friend – if you have one."

Churchill wrote back, saying he couldn't make it, but could he have tickets for the second night – "if there is one."

* * *

U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller was presiding at a church conference when an audience member rose and began a tirade against universities and education, saying that he gave thanks to God that he had never been corrupted by any contact with a college.

"Do I understand the speaker thanks God for his ignorance?" Fuller interrupted.

"Well, yes, if you want to put it that way," the man answered.

"Then," Fuller replied, "you have a great deal to be thankful for."

* * *

The conservative Winston Churchill was often at odds with Clement Attlee, leader of the Labor Party, which advocated a greater role for government in economic policy. Churchill once entered a men's room to find Attlee standing at the urinal. Churchill took a position at the other end of the trough.

"Feeling standoffish today, are we, Winston?" Attlee asked.

"That's right," Churchill responded. "Every time you see something big, you want to nationalize it."

*Excerpted from /I'll Be Sober in the Morning: Great Political Comebacks, Putdowns and Ripostes/, edited by Chris Lamb.*