Quotations

“I couldn't find the Quotations thread and so decided to start a new one.

I always thought, 'You're not drunk until you can;t lie on the floor without holding on.' was a W.C. Fields quote, but I found this while reading Wade Davis's Into the Silence(a must-read, BTW):

(from JohenMorse, transport officer for the 1922 British Everest Expedition)

'We decided that a man was not drunk' he reported, 'so long as he could lie on the ground without holding on. It was, we felt, a generous interpretation, but there was one porter who was consistently unable to comply even with this simple test.'

Morse, John: RGS [Royal Geographical Society] Box 31, File 3 [no further details in Davis's Annotated Bibliography, quoted:
Davis, Wade: Into the Silence: The Great
War, Mallory, and the conquest of Everest; New York (Random House), 2 011; p.447”

“Well, edit doesn't work worth a tinker's damn, but you'll understand it.”

“Far too many apostrophes to edit.

We normally call them 'quotes' below the 49th parallel:

http://www.thebackpacker.com/trailtalk/thread/4547,-1.php”