Originally Posted By pandy
That sound's like shades of Oscar Wilde's "The importance of being Earnest"

Lady Bracknell: "To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness".

My grandmother paraphrased that to my mother when my mother fell pregnant for the second time. Needless to say my mother was an only child, but I'm the first of seven.

Peter

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