On a lighter note ...

You've got to love these 'soft' insults traded by Shaw and Churchill:

• "I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play, bring a friend... if you have one." -- George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
  
  
• "Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second...if there is one." --Winston Churchill, in response

And then, there's always the inimitable Twain:

• "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." -- Mark Twain