Apologies
Obviously apologies, and the lack of them, have been much in the news over the last year. You can't really beat this one from Orson Welles, said at the end of his infamous 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast (on CBS radio).This is Orson Welles ladies and gentleman, out of character. We annihilated the world before you very ears, and utterly destroyed the CBS. You will be relieved, i hope, to learn that we didn't mean it.
While on panicky quotes, I have to repeat this great one from the Permanent Under-Secretary to the Cabinet at the time of Suez.
Kirkpatrick told one doubter that 'the PM was the only man in England who wanted the nation to survive; that all the rest of us have lost the will to live; that in two years' time Nasser will have deprived us of our oil, the sterling area fallen apart, no European defence possible, unemployment and unrest in the UK and our standard of living reduced to that of the Yugoslavians or Egyptians
The phrase, if I remember rightly, is "to wig".
posted by Matthew @ 5/26/2004 09:30:00 PM
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