“[On the phone] "My dear Jim's dead…No dear, he jumped off Waterloo Bridge - Yes, the one next to Charing Cross - No, no, no that's Blackfriars."”
Early review, cited in Frank Muir's Book of Comedy Sketches.
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Nooncoming, p. 100 (Originally published in Universe 8, edited by Terry Carr), 1978
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“Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.”
"Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford and Mortimer" (1721).