tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post4481059113226365840..comments2023-11-05T07:37:16.624+00:00Comments on The Drayton Bird Blog: Getting sex when you're ugly - and a tale of my imcompetenceDrayton Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06871107998046212949noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-11597445824319104092011-09-08T15:02:39.482+01:002011-09-08T15:02:39.482+01:00That's what I was trying to say.That's what I was trying to say.Draytonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-52119427069847759792011-09-08T14:06:08.154+01:002011-09-08T14:06:08.154+01:00I believe that the initial line ( "you will e...I believe that the initial line ( "you will either die...") was actually Lord Sandwich to Wilkes - and Wilkes gave the witty rejoinder. This has on several occasions been wrongly attributed to Gladstone and Disraeli.Allie_Davnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-40811349974925134762011-09-08T13:20:16.601+01:002011-09-08T13:20:16.601+01:00Absolutely correct, Jon. This makes me doubly inco...Absolutely correct, Jon. This makes me doubly incompetent. First because I didn't even spell the damn word incompetent properly. Second because I saw the line years ago when about to speak at Haldane's college and used it in my talk. I noted the use of the word queer - and promptly forgot it.Draytonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2421913838337434.post-73485522236516464342011-09-08T13:12:51.395+01:002011-09-08T13:12:51.395+01:00That'd be J.B.S. Haldane who said that about l...That'd be J.B.S. Haldane who said that about life (he also said it about the world, and paraphrased it yet again with "Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose").Jon McCullochhttp://www.facebook.com/JonMcCullochnoreply@blogger.com