One day during a visit to Taipei, S. J. Perelman was accosted by a gang of prostitutes and had great difficulty shaking them off. "A case," he later explained, "of the tail dogging the wag."
Perelman, Sidney Joseph (1904-1979) American humorist and screenwriter [noted for his scripts for several Marx Brothers' films and for his short stories and sketches for The New Yorker]