Robin Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve Holden wrote: >> Lorenzo Stella wrote: > ...... >> So, which environment do you habitually use that provides an >> *unlimited* stack? >> >> You remind me of the conversation between the philosopher and an >> attractive lady whom he was seated next to at dinner. He asked her >> if she would sleep with him for a million dollars, to which she >> readily agreed. So he followed this by asking her if she'd sleep >> with him for a dollar. She replied: "No. Do you take me for a >> prostitutte?", to which his riposte was "We have already established >> that fact, and are now merely haggling about the price". >> > > allegedly G B Shaw > (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19980925/ai_n14182408)
Also allegedly Winston Churchill, although wikiquote says: "This is a very old joke where the participants vary dramatically from each telling. It's very unlikely though not impossible that the joke originated from Churchill." -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list