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Q: I've got something for you. In China.
Diverdude has prompted me to share with you something I read this morning in China.
It's apropos of nothing really but definitely worth a nod of appreciation.
The following is a letter sent to the London Daily Mail columnist Don Iddon in 1954 and republished this week in The Paris Review.....
A word for your guidance. Do you realise, you revolting little object, that the copyright of a letter belongs to the writer of it? If you plan to continue your practice of publishing private letters sent to your private address, you are liable to come up against someone who thinks you worth powder and shot -- which I don't -- and get into trouble. Of course, only a confirmed cad and bounder would do such a thing, but I suppose your answer to that would be that you are a confirmed cad and bounder. You say in your column that I am "angry" with you. Not at all. When I am annoyed by a cockroach, I step on it and demolish it, but I am not angry with it. You have my permission to publish this one.
What a beauty, eh!
So, to the question....Who wrote it?
And do you think you can use it, in combination or as part thereof, to communicate with your Chinese people?
*Slow afternoon as the footy broadcast has stalled and my class doesn't start for an hour.
8 years 47 weeks ago in Arts & Entertainment - China
I binged it and got the answer 
Reminds me of the spats between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill.
Her: "Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your tea"
Him: "My Lady, if you were my wife I would drink it".
Aye, people of letters, not many about now. But there are some greet tweeters out there. I suppose they can be considered the same really.
Can I send these lines to the CIhey and NShey spying programs' cheifs?
These lines cannot be wasted on tiny issues, a class in itself.
It is a beauty. Written during a time when written correspondence was still an art form. These days, you can only find dialog like that in Tarantino movies.
'thinks you worth powder and shot'
serious classic. I hope I can recall and use it when the time comes~
* I am out of the guess who wrote it competition because u told me earlier
I binged it and got the answer
Reminds me of the spats between Lady Astor and Winston Churchill.
Her: "Sir, if you were my husband I would poison your tea"
Him: "My Lady, if you were my wife I would drink it".
Aye, people of letters, not many about now. But there are some greet tweeters out there. I suppose they can be considered the same really.
You revolting little object..... you are a confirmed cad and bounder..
Love it 
So do you think that was for the Echina admin for a font page story that they got from the answers section ?
I read this post and laughed a lot. Then I remembered it was my post. More laughing.
But I would do that... Laugh. Probably due to the amount of grog I've shoved down my guts this evening.
But no prob...wife is just happ to see me home alive. I really should wake up to myself.
Such class!
"revolting little object"
"confirmed cad and bounder"
"liable to come up against someone who thinks you worth powder and shot"
I sincerely hope these become part of forum lingo.
royceH:
That would be good.
I'm pondering now whether guoxiong qualifies as a confirmed cad and bounder, given it seems he's responsible for the latest demise of Vicky?
