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- From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
- Subject: Re: Coolidge
- Message-ID: <BzyJH5.1z2@world.std.com>
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec27.205034.11668@sol.cs.wmich.edu> <1hlbt9INNeva@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 07:00:40 GMT
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- wb8foz@skybridge.SCL.CWRU.Edu (David Lesher) writes:
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- >Others said:
- ># No one is really sure who said it. Odds on favorites are Dorthy Parker
- ># and Alexzander Woolcott.
- >#
- ># "Coolidge is dead"
- ># "How can you tell?"
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- >You might try H. L. Menckin......
- > {sp?}
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- It was indeed Dorothy Parker, according to _The_Portable_Curmudgeon_ by
- Jon Winokur, 1987.
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- The precise words were "How could they tell?".
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- ~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
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