Friday, October 16, 2009

Having my bread and cake

So one of the funniest things I ever heard was listen to George W Bush foul up a famous quote by a previous president good old Abe Lincoln, who said: "You can fool some of the people all the time and you can fool all of the people some of the time but will never able to fool all the people all the time.
"You can fool, all of the people, some…" Bush began, before stopping for a brief pause, and starting again… "You can fool some of the people all the time and you can fool some of the people all of the time but will never able to fool some of the people all the time," he said pausing again to realize his mistakes, before deciding to call it a day and move on!

One of the quotes I have always thought to be a classic and have used to great effect, is: "Let them eat cake". - Marie Antoinette. In fact, she actually said "Let them eat bread", apparently.

However, why ruin a good thing,I am going to pretend that she muttered the former under her breath anyway, to be heard by her muse or foot attendatnt, or cat minder or whoever it was that was closest to her and thus became famous, although perhaps not altogether official.

That’s sorted then! Well not really… Some sad individual is hell bent on having his cake and eating it on this matter, and even eating mine in the process…

If they have no bread, let them eat cake….
("S'ils n'ont plus de pain, qu'ils mangent de la brioche.")

Apparently brioche is not cake, it's a kind of fancy bread, and it wasn't Marie Antoinette who said this, according to some bent nosed twat.
It was actually a quote from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's autobiography, Confessions, in which he wrote: "At length I recollected the thoughtless saying of a great princess, who, on being informed that the country people had no bread, replied, "Then let them eat brioche!"

Rousseau doesn't name the "princess", and Marie Antoinette didn't arrive at Versailles until 1770, three years after Rousseau had written the above passage. So if there ever actually was a "great princess" who said this, it could not have been Marie then, apparently…said who? LOL

Rodney Dangerfield once said: I was such an ugly baby. My mother never breast fed me. She told me that she only liked me as a friend.

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