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- From: joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
- Subject: Re: if at first you [do|don't] succeed...
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- Organization: SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)
- References: <Bzq50p.9s4@news.iastate.edu> <1992Dec23.204617.28413@cas.org> <1992Dec24.003957.16623@quantime.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 02:27:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.003957.16623@quantime.co.uk>, roger@quantime.co.uk (Roger Phillips) writes:
- |>
- |> "If at first you don't suck seed, try drier grain."
- |> -- Frank Muir or Denis Norden
- |>
- |> "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
- |> -- Quentin Crisp, in a questionnaire from
- |> the Sunday Correspondent Magazine, 24 Sep 89.
- |> Mind you, it was in answer to the question
- |> "What would your motto be?",
- |> so he's not necessarily claiming to have coined the phrase.
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- If at first you don't succeed, try second base.
- -- Origin unknown
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- If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. No sense
- being a damn fool about it.
- -- W. C. Fields (?)
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- Jo Ann Malina, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
- joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu -or- 415/926-2846
- Neither Stanford nor the DOE would be caught dead with these opinions.
- Nor do they consult me when formulating theirs.
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