Friday, August 17, 2012

Happy 119, Mae West

Jezebel reminds us that it is Mae West's birthday, which calls for a celebration. Jezebel provides some choice quotes:
"A hard man is good to find." (A classic.)
"I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it."
For years I had thought that she was the originator of "Men are like street cars. If you miss one, there's another one coming in five minutes", but after doing a little googling, I learned this was the title of a song by Rosetta Howard from 1939. You can hear Howard singing it here.

No comments:

Post a Comment