[humor] Churchill and Madame de Gaule

[Dam Son <son@u.washington.edu>]

The British weekly, New Statesman, once recalled a true-life incident to
warn against linguistic adventurousness. 

At a lunch at the end of World War II, Winston Churchill apparently asked
Madame de Gaulle what she was most looking forward to in peacetime France. 

"A penis," she replied. 

"What?" barked an astonished Churchill. 
     
His guest repeated that what she wanted most, now that the war was over,
was "a penis". 

While the table waited in stupefied silence, her husband leapt gallantly
to his spouse's rescue. 
     
"I think, my dear," rumbled the great General de Gaulle, "the English
pronounce it 'appiness!"