Received: from fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca (fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca [128.100.43.253]) by tapehost.texas.net (8.8.8/2.4) with ESMTP id IAA02142 for ; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 08:24:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca (8.9.0.Beta5/8.9.0.Beta5) id JAA01391 for emweb-outgoing; Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:20:16 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca: majordom set sender to owner-emweb@mgmt.utoronto.ca using -f From: LouisFors Message-ID: <1ffc2cf.35409169@aol.com> Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:19:36 EDT To: emweb@fmgmt.mgmt.utoronto.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Swearing like...the army...in Flanders Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 49 Sender: owner-emweb@mgmt.utoronto.ca Precedence: list Reply-To: emweb@mgmt.utoronto.ca Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-UIDL: 02e45fbbb2f27ff7212c7055bed17c58 Andrew wrote: > Bartlett's Familiar Quotations led me to... serendipity! one of my > favorites! > > "--Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried my Uncle Toby, --but > nothing to this." > - Laurence Sterne, "Tristram Shandy", Vol III, Ch XI > Andrew: Wow, some sleuthing. It didn't occur to me to look at Bartlett's. The quotation has certainly been lost in our time, at least as something that might work in the press. I am grateful for your solution to something that has bugged me for several days. Louis Forsdale