No Googling please!

[artme]

Just Vote on this question:

Who is responsible for the oft (mis)quoted say about the law being an ass:

Charles dickens
George Bernard Shaw
Henry Glapthorne
Bertrand Russell
Samuel Johnson
George Chapman

[GourmetSaint]

Gbs?

[Big Shed]

Charles Dickens

[Scott]

Dickens

[robbygard]

i remember reading one time that it was wrongly attributed to dickens but can't remember who (if indeed the article said) it was ... i would guess gbs who said many clever things


regards d avid

[artme]

Dickens 2

GBS 2

[Grommett]

Gbs

[Grommett]

I just googled.

[Sturdee]

I just googled.

So did I, but I won't spoil it.

Peter.

[michael_m]

Dickens - from Oliver Twist, from memory

[artme]

Gotta love a confession - or two!!!

[cava]

Henry Glapthorne

[artme]

Dickens 3

GBS 3

Google 2

Glapthorne 1


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[Optimark]

We did this in school, the teacher had an extremely difficult time ensuring we pronounced the word as "ass" instead of how we thought it should be pronounced, "arrrse".

Being a school border come dinner time, all you could hear around our class table were many variations of rolling ones r

I'm going with Dickens in Oliver Twist.

Mick.

Edit, funny how something like this stays with you for your life and is instantly returned from the dark recess of the brain, it was nearly 50 years ago.

[Mutawintji]

Bertrand Russell ... From memory he was an iconoclast.

greg