In these challenges, I try to explore not just your conventional writing abilities, but also to challenge you in your ingenuity and in manipulation of words. This challenge is a good deal shorter in word length and looks for ingenuity. The theme is "Applicable Misquotes".

I recently attended a talk at the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra referring to the work of Leopold Stokowski. He was an American (showman-style) conductor who amongst other things worked with Walt Disney in the film "Fantasia". If you've never seen the film, it was based on the cartoon interpretation of a number of pieces of serious music. I remember particularly The Sorcerer's Apprentice, and the Pastoral Symphony. Well, the story goes that when Disney saw the final section of this creative film which dealt with the Pastoral Symphony, he said to Stokowski, "Well, I guess this will put Beethoven on the map!". I can't imagine anyone really saying that, but it somehow fits the image of Disney.

Playing around with this idea, I felt there was also scope for mangling some established quotes. For instance, what would Churchill have thought about the profligate spending of our current crop of politicians? I suspect he would have said "Never before have so many spent so much and achieved so little."

Probably many of you (I know we did at school, but that was a long time ago) played around with what Confucius might have said. One I remember was his comment after a supposed typhoid outbreak in China: "Woman who cooks greens and peas in the same pot, very insanitory."

Can you think of or create a quote which will fit a person (existing or historical) in a particular context, or by mangling what he/she has said which will seem apt or amusing? The quotation is important, but you should lead into it with a description naming the person and the situation.

Entries, please, to Geoff by Alpha Day 10 (March 29th)