Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/06/13

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Subject: NO LEICA CONTENT: WC FIELDS
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 1997 21:06:26 -0400
 
At 05:42 PM 6/13/97 -0700, Roger Beamon, curmudgeon, wrote:
>(Did W.C. Fields ever take off on Frisco the way he did Philly?)

No.  He was too much the gentleman -- and his real target, of course, was
never "Filthadelphia" nearly as much as E-Schleberty, Pennsylvania.  They
censored his tombstone to put the crack about Philadelphia on it.

Marc


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