According to one anecdote ( from Al Capp Remembered, 1994 ), Capp and his brother Elliot ducked out of a dull party at Capp's home — leaving Walt Kelly alone to fend for himself entertaining a group of Argentine envoys who didn't speak English.

According to an anecdote preserved by Suetonius, Caesar did not deny that Catullus's lampoons left an indelible stain on his reputation, but when Catullus apologized, he invited the poet for dinner the very same day.

According to Tom Jr .: This anecdote never made it into IBM lore, which is too bad, because it would have helped explain Father to the tens of thousands of people who had to follow his rules.

" According to an anecdote recorded on a papyrus, dating to around 250 BC, Hieron once asked the poet if everything grows old: " Yes ," Simonides answered, " all except money-making ; and kind deeds age most quickly of all.

According to one anecdote, the public would not accept Gluck's style until he inserted an aria in the lighter Milanese manner for contrast.

According to anecdote, this designation came to stand for " superior quality ", which the spirit distilled as ouzo was thought to possess.

According to Issa, the Examiner reporter had misunderstood an anecdote he had related.

According to the most famous anecdote, in 1962 he addressed a crowd in Liberia: " Ladies and Gentlemen, dear Negroes ...".

According to anecdote, he was close to Wellington when his leg was hit, and exclaimed, " By God, sir, I've lost my leg!

According to an anecdote recorded at the Internet Movie Database web page on The Odd Couple, the scene was actually filmed just prior to the start of a regular game at Shea Stadium on June 27, 1967.

Al-Tabari records the following anecdote: " According to ' Ali -- Suhaym b. Hafs: A slave girl belonging to Sulayman looked at him one day, and he asked, " How do you like what you see?

According to a French anecdote, after the battle Vandamme was accused by Emperor Alexander I of Russia of being a brigand and plunderer.

According to an anecdote by Serpent Isle project leader Bill Armintrout, Origin Systems has lost the source code to both " Serpent Isle " and its add-on " The Silver Seed ", and Electronic Arts is not planning on any kinds of rewrites for modern systems.

According to an anecdote related by Samuel R. Delany, when Sturgeon first submitted the story, the editor ( John W. Campbell ) not only rejected it but phoned every other editor he knew and urged them to reject it as well.

According to a famous anecdote, while de Gaulle was marching down the Champs Élysées and entered the Place de la Concorde, snipers in the Hôtel de Crillon area shot at the crowd.

According to anecdote, the term emerged in Melbourne's outer-Western and outer-Eastern suburbs in the late 1970s and early 1980s as a non-pejorative term, used by fans of heavy metal and hard rock music to describe themselves, and was used almost interchangeably with " head-banger ".

According to one anecdote, he left a final, good-humored message for friends and family at his wake, having arranged for an airplane to fly overhead with it.

According to an anecdote related by Samuel R. Delany, when Sturgeon first submitted the story, his editor not only rejected it but phoned every other editor he knew and urged them to reject it as well.

According to one anecdote, the Indians at one point gave him a delicious soup ; after finishing his dinner, he found in the bottom of the cauldron some small skulls, which he later found out to be those of the children in his choir.

According to an anecdote told by Thomas himself, it was an accident that inspired him to use personal written material as primary ethnographic sources and to develop the biographical approach to sociology that would make his lasting reputation in the field: While walking down a street near his home, Thomas was nearly hit by a garbage bag that had been thrown out of a window.

According to this version of the anecdote, when stationed in Berlin, Knorozov came across the National Library while it was ablaze.

According to an anecdote, the inhabitants of Gumbinnen were embarrassed by the name and asked King Friedrich Wilhelm IV for a name change.

According to BJ Cohrs it is probably the work of Bruckner himself.

According to Bruckner, modern philosophers from Heidegger to Gadamer, Derrida, Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno have mounted a broad attack on the Enlightenment, claiming that " all the evils of our epoch were spawned by this philosophical and literary episode: capitalism, colonialism, totalitarianism.

According to the conductor Georg Tintner, this lack of confidence in the work arose from a question by the puzzled conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Felix Otto Dessoff, who asked Bruckner, " Where is the main theme?

According to " The Phoenix on the Sword ", the adventures of Conan take place "... Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas ..."

According to The General History of the Pirates, published more than 25 years after the event by an author whose very identity remains in dispute, Kidd made peaceful overtures to Culliford: he " drank their Captain's health ," swearing that " he was in every respect their Brother ," and gave Culliford " a Present of an Anchor and some Guns.

According to Spielberg on a documentary on the Close Encounters DVD, Spielberg met him at a bar, where McQueen drank beer after beer.

The Greek geographer Strabo claimed that Greek colonists named the river Sybaris after a fountain of the same name at Bura in Achaia: According to some sources it had the property of making the horses that drank its water shy.

According to lore, among the treasures of the Greek church entrusted to Lawrence for safe-keeping was the Holy Chalice, the cup from which Jesus and the Apostles drank at the Last Supper.

According to Malkavian legend, when Malkav was killed, all his childer came to his corpse and drank the blood of their father, thus collectively diablerizing Malkav.

According to Brown, she drank the bottle.

According to their mythology, Olodumare, the Supreme God, ordered Obatala to create the earth but on his way he found palm wine, drank it and became intoxicated.

According to a Chinese source, people of ancient Java drank wine made from palm sap called tuak ( palm wine ).

According to the BBC, " found that milk had the strongest link with ovarian cancer — those women who drank two or more glasses a day were at double the risk of those who did not consume it at all, or only in small amounts.

According to legend, during the Samudra manthan, the asura Rahu drank some of the divine nectar.

According to Samuel Pepys, Sedley ` showed his nakedness-acting all the postures of lust and buggery that could he imagined, and abusing of scripture ... preaching a Mountebank sermon from that pulpit ... that being done, he took a glass of wine and washed his prick in it and then drank it off ; and then took another and drank the King's health '.

According to NHL lore, Hall threw up before each game, then drank a glass of orange juice.

According to his personal account, he drank, gambled, womanized, and once went on a several day long car theft and drinking binge.

According to " The Phoenix on the Sword ", the adventures of Conan take place "... Between the years when the oceans drank Atlantis and the gleaming cities, and the years of the rise of the Sons of Aryas ..."

According to a contemporary New York Times review of the book, Thompson relates how he " drank at their bars, exchanged home visits, recorded their brutalities, viewed their sexual caprices, became converted to their motorcycle mystique, and was so intrigued, as he puts it, that ' I was no longer sure whether I was doing research on the Hell's Angels or being slowly absorbed by them.

According to a story presently written on the bottle, it was given its name when the Head Brewer drank " several tankards " and " fell on " a name for the beer.

According to Pete Fountain, for whom Fazola was one of his two foremost idols, Faz also drank heavily, which contributed to his weight and his early death.