Quotation by Calvin Trillin

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English people apparently queue up as a sort of hobby. A family man might pass a mild autumn evening by taking the wife and kids to stand in the cinema queue for a while and then leading them over for a few minutes in the sweetshop queue and then, as a special treat for the kids, saying "Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in."

Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin (b. 1940), U.S. humorist. American Fried, ch. 5, Doubleday (1974).

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