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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles...While traveling on a train one day, Sir Thomas Beecham was joined in his non-smoking compartment by a pompous woman who proceeded to light a cigarette. "I'm sure you won't object if I smoke," she declared. "Not at all," Beecham replied, "provided that you don't object if I'm sick." "I don't think you know who I am," the woman snapped. "I am one of the directors' wives." "Madam," Beecham replied, "if you were the director's only wife, I should still be sick."
[We are reminded of a classic scene in Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, in which Steve Martin replies to the smoking question: "Not at all. Do you mind if I fart?"]
Beecham, Sir Thomas (1879-1961) British conductor and impresario, founder of the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1932), artistic director of the Royal Opera House
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