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Salvador Dali on "What's My Line?"

Started by Queequeg, February 08, 2014, 04:28:00 PM

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February 09, 2014, 10:05:02 PM
A colleague of mine met Peter Ustinov several times when she was working for SwissAir in Washington D.C. She said he was one of the nicest persons you'd ever meet.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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#46
February 10, 2014, 07:42:12 AM
There's a very high standard of spoken English in that clip, certainly by today's television standards. I also love the Mid-Atlantic accent of one of the panelists. :wub:
" SIR – I must commend you on some of your recent obituaries. I was delighted to read of the deaths of Foday Sankoh (August 9th), and Uday and Qusay Hussein (July 26th). Do you take requests? "

OVO JE SRBIJA
BUDALO, OVO JE POSTA

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#47
February 10, 2014, 08:04:05 AM
Quote from: Warspite on February 10, 2014, 07:42:12 AM
There's a very high standard of spoken English in that clip, certainly by today's television standards. I also love the Mid-Atlantic accent of one of the panelists. :wub:

I presume you might mean Bennett Cerf?
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.
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