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Re: To Wear - Or What To Wear!

To: <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: To Wear - Or What To Wear!
From: "Alec Gallagher" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 1999 01:08:01 +0100
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-----Original Message-----
From: Colin Randle <colin.randle@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Mailing List <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 22 October 1999 07:35
Subject: To Wear - Or What To Wear!


... This quote reminds me
>of another which was used to devastating effect by a fellow listee from
>America some months ago, when, in response to a particular rowdy thread
>at the time, which has since escaped my memory, retorted " I'd rather
>remain silent and be thought a fool, than speak up and confirm it".
>(Does anyone know who really said that)?

"Far better to keep your mouth shut and let everyone think you're stupid
than to open it and leave no doubt".

Norman Tebbit (Conservative minister in the eighties), to Labour MP Dennis
Skinner.

Alec


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