> The philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, whose offhand remarks were celebrated enough to have been collected, is here only for his famous retort to a speaker who

> The philosopher Sidney Morgenbesser, whose offhand remarks were celebrated enough to have been collected, is here only for his famous retort to a speaker who had said that although there are many cases in which two negatives make a positive, he knew of no case in which two positives made a negative (“Yeah yeah”). So, that was the clever clogs. OK, sold, I have only half a dozen anthological quotation books, seems I have another one to fish for. Seems a bit noughties dated, but superbly scrubbed down. Good piece, wringing out the juiciest bits.