AABD - Humor Corner

The following were reported in The Little Brown Book of Anecdotes, Clifton Fadiman, General Editor, 1985:

Shortly after World War I, Nancy Astor, the American-born wife of Waldorf Viscount Astor, visited Blenheim Palace, the ancestral home of the Churchill family. In conversation with Churchill, she expounded on the subject of women's rights, an issue that was to take her into the House of Commons as the first woman member of Parliament. Churchill opposed her on this and other causes that she held dear. In some exasperation Lady Astor said, "Winston, if I were married to you, I'd put poison in your coffee."  Churchill responded, "And if you were my wife, I'd drink it."