Playwright Harold Pinter’s response to a fundraising dinner invitation also works for all unwanted invitations
Nobel Prize-winning playwright, screenwriter, director and actor Harold Pinter certainly had a gift with words – as shown in his response to this fundraising dinner invitation.
My spirit animal is Harold Pinter pic.twitter.com/FCfDPvFbF8
— Agnes (@agnesfrim) October 27, 2017
The oddest thing about that is the phrase "All the best".
— Simon Coward (@Simon_Coward) October 27, 2017
How I'm going to decline all future invites – "I'd rather die,
…… all the best" !!!— Uma Nayer (@UmaNayer) October 27, 2017
It’s basically a more polite version of “Fuck off. Cheers!”
And while we’re on the subject of Pinter, time to remember that “In Greggs” is the finest bit of dialogue he never wrote.
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