Punch (magazine)

right|thumb|200px|Front cover of the first edition Punch was a British humorous and satirical magazine published between 1841 and 1992. It was revived in 1996 and closed in 2002. Quotes I used your soap two years ago; since then I have used no other. Volume lxxxvi, 1884, page 197. Illustration by Harry Furniss. (Cartoon True Humility, curate Jones having breakfast at his Bishop's house.) Bishop: I'm afraid you've got a bad egg, Mr Jones. Jones (apparently trying not to give offence): Oh, no, my Lord, I assure you that parts of it are excellent! By George du Maurier, 9 November 1895. From which comes the expression curate's egg for something with good and bad parts. (Cartoon featuring the vicar's wife talking to a rustic old man laid up by an injured foot.) Vicar's wife: Now that you can't get about and are not able to read, how do you manage to occupy the time? Rustic man: Well, mum, sometimes I sits and thinks and then again I just sits. By Gunning-King, 24 October 1906, Volume 131, page 297. Quoted by Nigel Rees in his book Why Do We Say ...?. This is the origin of the saying Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits. Used by Lucy Maud Montgomery in Anne of the Island. And perhaps as Sometimes I just sits as an inscription on a china figurine of a boy on a lavatory. External links Punch (magazine) Punch magazine Punch,_or_the_London_Charivari Punch, or the London Charivari Punch Punch Category:Magazines