Quote ="reffy"In my opinion, I know an opinion usually different to most, I think no statement would have been better then that one. Let's shorten the bit that is the explanation:- Person A uses Person B's phone to call Person C, Person D answers Person C's phone, thinks it is a mate of Person B taking the mickey and abuses him, Person A explains that he really is Person A , Person D apologises. Club fined £2000.
Hans Christian Andersen?'"
Mrs. Hardy: "Oliver did I or did I not give you the money to pay on the furnitre?"
Ollie: "You certainly did"
Mrs. Hardy: "Then why wasn't it paid?"
Ollie: "Why, I gave it to him (points to Stan) to pay it for me"
Mrs. Hardy (to Stan): "Then what did you do with it?"
Stan: "I gave it back to him"
Ollie: "You gave it to me?"
Stan: "Yeah I gave it to you to pay my room and board then you gave it to her, remember"
Mrs. Hardy: "Do you mean to say that the money that he gave to you that you gave to him that he gave to me was the same money that I gave to him to pay him?"
Stan: "Well if that was the money that you gave to him to give to me to pay to him, it must have been the money that I gave him to give to you to pay my rent - didn't I?"
Mrs. Hardy: Mr. Finlayson I owe you an apology"
Fin: "And thirty-seven dollars"
Laurel & Hardy - Thicker Than Water 1935
Sorry, Couldn't Help It.