weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P. Wiener) (02/01/86)
In article <2225@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes: > A man asked a beautiful woman at a bar, "Would you sleep with me if >I offered you a million dollars." > With only a slight hesitation, the woman answered, "Of course." > In that case, would you sleep with me for five dollars. > "Certainly not!" answered the woman, "What do you think I am?" > "We've already established that," replied the man, "we're just >haggling about price now." I've heard that the above joke is from a true conversation of Bertrand Russell. Can anyone confirm? And while we're at it, there's the story of BR and a beautiful actress discussing what their children would be like. References? ucbvax!brahms!weemba Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) (02/03/86)
> In article <2225@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes: > > A man asked a beautiful woman at a bar, "Would you sleep with me if > >I offered you a million dollars." > > With only a slight hesitation, the woman answered, "Of course." > > In that case, would you sleep with me for five dollars. > > "Certainly not!" answered the woman, "What do you think I am?" > > "We've already established that," replied the man, "we're just > >haggling about price now." > > I've heard that the above joke is from a true conversation > of Bertrand Russell. Can anyone confirm? And while we're > at it, there's the story of BR and a beautiful actress > discussing what their children would be like. References? Wrong. It was George Bernard Shaw. -- jcpatilla "Not faint canaries but ambrosia.." (name the original source)
julian@riacs.UUCP (02/04/86)
> > In article <2225@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes: > > > A man asked a beautiful woman at a bar, "Would you sleep with me if > > >I offered you a million dollars." > > > With only a slight hesitation, the woman answered, "Of course." > > > In that case, would you sleep with me for five dollars. > > > "Certainly not!" answered the woman, "What do you think I am?" > > > "We've already established that," replied the man, "we're just > > >haggling about price now." > > > > I've heard that the above joke is from a true conversation > > of Bertrand Russell. Can anyone confirm? And while we're > > at it, there's the story of BR and a beautiful actress > > discussing what their children would be like. References? > > Wrong. It was George Bernard Shaw. > -- > jcpatilla > > "Not faint canaries but ambrosia.." > (name the original source) And I've seen it attributed to Winston Churchill. -- "If Chaos himself sat umpire, what better could he do?" Julian "a tribble took it" Gomez (ARPA: julian@riacs) 415-694-6141 415-694-6363 (UUCP: decvax!decwrl!julian@riacs) RIACS - Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science
mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (Michael Ross) (02/05/86)
>> I've heard that the above joke is from a true conversation >> of Bertrand Russell. Can anyone confirm? And while we're >> at it, there's the story of BR and a beautiful actress >> discussing what their children would be like. References? > >Wrong. It was George Bernard Shaw. >-- >jcpatilla > >"Not faint canaries but ambrosia.." >(name the original source) I've noticed that, if you don't know who said something witty, you're probably safe to attribute it to: 1) George Bernard Shaw 2) Mark Twain 3) Winston Churchill and on certain occasions: 4) Oscar Wilde except if it contains mangled English, in which case it's: 5) Yogi Berra 6) Leo Durocher 7) Casey Stengel --MKR :-)
greg@unlv.UUCP (Greg Wohletz) (02/09/86)
>> A man asked a beautiful woman at a bar, "Would you sleep with me if >>I offered you a million dollars." >> With only a slight hesitation, the woman answered, "Of course." >> In that case, would you sleep with me for five dollars. >> "Certainly not!" answered the woman, "What do you think I am?" >> "We've already established that," replied the man, "we're just >>haggling about price now." > > I've heard that the above joke is from a true conversation > of Bertrand Russell. Can anyone confirm? And while we're > at it, there's the story of BR and a beautiful actress > discussing what their children would be like. References? I actually witnessed a profesor pull that one on a girl in a large 101 class in my freshman year. She was not amused.... ======================================================================== University of Nevada, Las Vegas --Greg Wohletz "Death to Kate Bush" greg%unlv@CSNet-Relay "Long live Stevie Ray Vaughan" seismo!unrvax!unlv!greg ========================================================================
mrgofor@mmm.UUCP (MKR) (02/12/86)
In article <120@csee-vax.unlv.UUCP> greg@unlv.UUCP (Greg Wohletz) writes: >>> A man asked a beautiful woman at a bar, "Would you sleep with me if >>>I offered you a million dollars." >>> With only a slight hesitation, the woman answered, "Of course." >>> In that case, would you sleep with me for five dollars. >>> "Certainly not!" answered the woman, "What do you think I am?" >>> "We've already established that," replied the man, "we're just >>>haggling about price now." >> >> I've heard that the above joke is from a true conversation >> of Bertrand Russell. Can anyone confirm? And while we're >> at it, there's the story of BR and a beautiful actress >> discussing what their children would be like. References? > I actually witnessed a profesor pull that one on a girl in a large >101 class in my freshman year. She was not amused.... >======================================================================== >University of Nevada, Las Vegas --Greg Wohletz >"Death to Kate Bush" greg%unlv@CSNet-Relay >"Long live Stevie Ray Vaughan" seismo!unrvax!unlv!greg >======================================================================== A large 101 class? Oh, yeah, now I remember. I took large 101 when I was in school. It was a mick. :-) --MKR