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From: "Peggy Munroe" <>
Subject: Re: That Unusual Dinner Party
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 15:07:57 -0500
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Great, Stan! My husband is "supposed" to be descended from one of Chas II's
mistresses. I will have to see if it was Nell!

Peggy

----- Original Message -----
From: "stan.bayne" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 5:19 PM
Subject: That Unusual Dinner Party


> Right - it's about my turn, seeing that I kicked this one off.
>
> My list would be:
>
> The Men.
>
> * Samuel Pepys, diarist and civil servant. We would have to appreciate
the
> man who said, "I find that my wife hath something in her gizzard which
only
> wants the opportunity of being provoked to bring up, but I will not, for
my
> content-sake, give it."
>
> * Benjamin Franklin, scientist, diplomat and humanitarian. Anyone who
had
> the temerity to fly a kite during an electrical storm and survive it is
> worthy of our companionship. And he was a very good-natured chap.
>
> * Georges Danton, French revolutionary, shortened by the guillotine.
And,
> yes - he
> spoke fluent English. The man who could say, while waiting his turn to
go
> to the guillotine, "I wish I could bequeath my legs to Couton [who was a
> cripple], and my genitals [he was actually somewhat less delicate in his
> statement than I am] to that eunuch Robespierre," would enliven the party
> more than somewhat with his earthy manner.
>
> The Women.
>
> * Lady Jane Grey, the "Nine Days Queen", beheaded on the orders of Queen
> Mary I. A lady of considerable education but lacking the necessary
> quantity of blue blood which Mary had.
>
> * Nell Gwynn, the self-styled "Protestant Whore", mistress of Charles II.
> A lady of considerable charm, intelligence and personality. Pepys refers
> to her in his diary as 'pretty, witty Nellie".
>
> * Jane Austen, novelist and student of human nature. Any woman who could
> write such a novel as 'Pride and Prejudice' would cope very well with
> Mistress Gwynn.
>
> * Mary Shelley, wife of the poet Percy Shelley, author of the novel
> "Frankenstein". She wrote that novel at the ripe old age of 19, and I
> would be most interested to hear her views on human nature.
>
> Howzat?
>
> Stan
>
>
>
>
>
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