From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: RE: More boring and pointless
Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 01:01:11 +0100



I wrote


>> I could be wrong, maybe there were earlier instances of other folk
>> coming up with very similar remarks, but I know that in the 1950s
>> Arthur Askey was asked how he wanted his obituary to read, and he
>> replied "nonegenarian comedian shot by jealous young husband".


and Old Goat responds


> Well, mebbe so, David, but it actually happened quite sometime
> prior to the 1950s.
>
> In the mid 1890s my great-great, Nicolas Gambs, the first Senex
> Rupicapra, was visiting his daughter and her family in Lake
> Charles, Louisiana, when he was shot in a "hunting accident" 
> by a younker man, Jean Paul deLesseps (age 70) who sometime 
> earlier had  openly accused Nicolas of bird-dogging (or whatever 
> it was called back then) one Mercienne deLesseps (age indeterminate 
> but believed to be in her late 60s), wife of Jean Paul.


It looks like that English comedian may have based his line
on a real life incident involving your great-great-granpappy.
It doesn't surprise me he wasn't being original. I never 
did think much of Arthur Askey. 


Dave C