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Margaret Thatcher and the Queen’s English

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Margaret Thatcher and the Queen's English -  A joke told by Red Skelton, about meeting Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher and the Queen’s English –  A joke told by Red Skelton, about meeting Margaret Thatcher

(Editor’s note: This is a joke told by  Red Skelton, when he met Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom)

Red Skelton: I turned to Margaret Thatcher and said, “Ain’t this beautiful?” and she replied, “Not  ain’t,  isn’t.   Don’t you know the Queen’s English?”

Red replied, “I heard she was, yes.”