WHY WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS BOTH A CELEBRATED AND CONTROVERSIAL FIGURE

LADY ASTOR WAS THE FIRST FEMALE MEMBER OF

PARLIAMENT AND SHE WAS ALWAYS BUTTING

HEADS WITH CHURCHILL. ONCE, SHE TOLD HIM

THAT IF THEY WERE MARRIED, SHE WOULD HAVE

POISONED HIS TEA. HE REPLIED

"MADAM, IF I WAS YOUR HUSBAND, I WOULD DRINK IT."

THE FIRST VERIFIABLE INSTANCE OF OMG BEING USED

IN PRINT WAS IN A LETTER TO CHURCHILL ON

SEPTEMBER 9^TH, 1917 FROM ADMIRAL

JOHN ARBUTHNOT "JACKY" FISHER.

TACT, ACCORDING TO CHURCHILL, IS BEST DEFINED

AS "THE ABILITY TO TELL SOMEONE TO GO TO HELL

IN SUCH A WAY THAT THEY LOOK FORWARD TO THE TRIP.”

BEFORE SETTING OUT FOR THE BOER WAR,

CHURCHILL ALLEGEDLY TOOK NEARLY 60

BOTTLES OF ALCOHOL WITH HIM

BECAUSE HE WAS USED TO LOOKING RIGHT INSTEAD

OF LEFT FOR APPROACHING CARS, WHEN HE WAS

EXITING A TAXI IN NEW YORK CITY WINSTON

ENDED UP GETTING STRUCK

WHEN HE WAS ASKED TO COMMENT ON THE SUPPOSED

GRAMMAR LAW STATING THAT SENTENCES

SHOULDN'T END IN PREPOSITIONS, CHURCHILL

ALLEGEDLY RESPONDED “THAT IS NONSENSE,

UP WITH WHICH I SHALL NOT PUT!”

ONE OF HIS FAVOURITE PASTIMES WAS

BRICKLAYING…JUST BRICKLAYING

DURING PROHIBITION IN THE UNITED STATES,

CHURCHILL CALLED IT "AN AFFRONT

TO THE WHOLE HISTORY OF MANKIND."