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- From: ron@syacus.acus.oz.au (Ron Williams)
- Subject: Re: Shakespearean Quotations: Do you fancy a few?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.222009.5187@syacus.acus.oz.au>
- Organization: ACUS Australian Centre for Unisys Software, Sydney
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:20:09 GMT
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- Eugene Hung (eyhung@garnet.berkeley.edu) wrote:
- > In article <1992Dec21.220441.16939@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu> rrulli@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Rebecca Rulli) writes:
- > >
- > >"Oh, the tangled webs we weave"
- > >
- > >Shakespeare
- > >(not sure from which although although I constantly quote it)
- >
- > Actually, I believe Sir Walter Scott is the author of that quote (in Marmion)
- >
- > "Oh, the tangled webs we weave
- > When we practice to deceive."
- >
- > Eugene
-
- An example of the misuse of quotations?
-
- I know a guy who has a company called 'Tangled Web Software Pty. Ltd.'
- This is real. His intention was that your software was tangled, and he, leaping
- heroically into the fray, would straighten it out for you. Last I heard, someone
- said to him that he ought to change the name. Hasn't yet though, as far as I
- know...
-
- ron
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