Hook, Line & SinkerGeorge Bernard Shaw once found himself at a dinner party, seated beside an attractive woman. "Madam," he asked, "would you go to bed with me for a thousand pounds?" The woman blushed and rather indignantly shook her head.
"For ten thousand pounds?" he asked. "No. I would not." "Then how about fifty thousand pounds?" he contined.
The colossal sum gave the woman pause, and after further reflection, she coyly replied: "Perhaps." "And if I were to offer you five pounds?" Shaw asked.
"Mr. Shaw!" the woman exclaimed. "What do you take me for!" "We have already established what you are," Shaw calmly replied. "Now we are merely haggling over the price."
[This tale is told of others and is probably apocryphal.]
[Trivia: Shaw was a virgin until 29, when he was seduced by an elderly widow. The experience shocked him into 15 years of total abstinence.]
Shaw, George Bernard (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic, wit and man of letters; Nobel Prize recipient (Literature, 1925) [noted for such works as Pygmallion,Major Barbara, Heartbreak House, Saint Joan,Mrs. Warren's Profession, Arms and the Man, Candida, and Man and Superman]
[Sources: The Friars Club Encyclopaedia of Jokes: 2,000 One-Liners, Straight Lines, Stories, Gags, Roasts, Ribs and Put-Downs; The Book of Lists, p. 321]More George Shaw anecdotesRelated Anecdote Keywords:
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