Which is most fair and right?

[Kelly the Dog]

That sounds like George Bernard Shaw.

Pretty sure I read on Facebook that it's from Tiglath-Pileser III

George Bernard Shaw was also a theatre critic, maybe even before he was a playwright. I could be mistaken, because there were a few of these guys who were great playwrights but also acerbic theatre critics themselves, but I think it was Shaw who was watching a particularly dreadful play one time, and he leaned forward, and tapped a woman on the shoulder right in front of him, and said, "Excuse me, madam, but would you be so kind as to put on your hat."

 

Many different people have been attributed with the long letter quote. Abe Lincoln. Mark Twain. Blaise Pascal. I have no idea who said it first.

Edited September 27, 2017 by Kelly the Dog

[DC Tom]

George Bernard Shaw was also a theatre critic, maybe even before he was a playwright. I could be mistaken, because there were a few of these guys who were great playwrights but also acerbic theatre critics themselves, but I think it was Shaw who was watching a particularly dreadful play one time, and he leaned forward, and tapped a woman on the shoulder right in front of him, and said, "Excuse me, madam, but would you be so kind as to put on your hat."

 

Many different people have been attributed with the long letter quote. Abe Lincoln. Mark Twain. Blaise Pascal. I have no idea who said it first.

 

It wasn't Twain, I'm sure. His style was more acerbic and less absurdist than that quote. It wasn't Pascal either, I'd wager.

[Kelly the Dog]

"Breaking news: the blacks have traded Ray Lewis for Gregg Popovich. Ben Carson, considered untradeable, has been cut."

[Deranged Rhino]

 

It wasn't Twain, I'm sure. His style was more acerbic and less absurdist than that quote. It wasn't Pascal either, I'd wager.

[Paulus]

"Breaking news: the blacks have traded Ray Lewis for Gregg Popovich. Ben Carson, considered untradeable, has been cut."

So, who gets Talcum X?

Edited September 28, 2017 by Paulus