I'll let someone else answer that Frederick.:)
I've always loved Fields' carved quip (he was raised in Philadelphia,
wasn't he?) On a par with Lady Nancy Astor, who, on her deathbed, woke to
find her family round her: "Am I dying, or is this my birthday?"
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> You could move to Raynes Park :)
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> I don't catch the reference. Is it the equivalent of Philadelphia? (On W.
> C. Fields's tombstone: I'd rather be here than in Philadelphia.)
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