“Could you exchange this lucky charm for a baby's feeding-bottle?”
George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"
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George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"
George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill", in Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters (1984) Vol. 2, pp. 194-5.
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“I want to back the favourite, please. My sweetheart gave me a pound to do it both ways!”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/misc/cartoon_libel08.shtml.
“Do you like Kipling?"
"I don't know, you naughty boy, I've never kippled.”
The Guinness Book of World Records 1988 p. 203. http://www.unc.edu/~sstaff/images/kippled.jpg
Holds the record as the world's most successful postcard, with a sale of about 6,000,000.
Several earlier versions of the gag exist dating to the 19th century, according to the Quote Investigator blog. http://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/10/02/like-kipling/
“I like seeing experienced girls home."
"But I'm not experienced!"
"You're not home yet!”
George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"
Donald McGill Quotes
Arthur Calder-Marshall Wish You Were Here: The Art of Donald McGill (1966) p. 44.
The drawing shows a small child on a beach, hidden under the bulging stomach of his father.
“For Heaven's sake, send help! There's a man trying to get into my room and the door's locked!”
The Independent, September 8, 2006. http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1372035.ece.
“She didn't ask me to the christening, so I'm not going to the wedding.”
George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"
“I've been struggling for years to get a fur coat. How did you get yours?"
"I left off struggling.”
George Orwell "The Art of Donald McGill"
“"'Isaiah' – what a funny name for a teddy bear!"
"Well, you see one eye's 'igher than the other."”
Exhibited as part of the Michael Winner collection of McGill designs at the Chris Beetles Gallery, March 14 to April 8, 2006. http://www.chrisbeetles.com/pictures/artists/McGill_Donald/DMG185.htm
