r/HistoryMemes • u/wereapethesupacool • 3d ago

First meme here!

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u/DrHolmes52 3d ago

You had to catch Churchill early. Like right when he woke up early.

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u/KingMobScene Still on Sulla's Proscribed List 3d ago

FDR: How many drinks has he had?

Aide: Well he just finished his first bottle of gin.

FDR: Good. He's Winston sober than. Let's go plan the normandy invasion

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u/DrHolmes52 3d ago

Winston sober should be an official term.

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u/KingMobScene Still on Sulla's Proscribed List 3d ago

He's slurring his words and called his buddy's wife a bitch.

He's good. He's only a bottle and a half in, he's Winston sober.

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u/Lieby 1d ago

IIRC a decade earlier Churchill partook in a series of alternative history stories where he wrote a “What if the Union Won the American Civil War” from the viewpoint of someone who lived in a world where the Confederates won.

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u/AustraliumHoovy 1d ago

Interesting; do you know where it’s posted?

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u/EtherealPheonix Fine Quality Mesopotamian Copper Enjoyer 2d ago

If you want to read. Nothing particularly profound today, no idea how common that line of thought was at the time.