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- From: aaron@atlantis.uucp
- Subject: Re: The Quotation to End All Quoting
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.063114.28822@atlantis.uucp>
- Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 06:31:14 GMT
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- Charles Neveu (charles@capmkt.COM) wrote:
-
- : I've heard it this way:
- : The opposite of truth is falsity, but the opposite of a great truth is
- : another great truth.
-
- Sherwood Botsford, my former sysadmin, had this to say about platitudes...
-
- "Platitude is latitude with a 'p' in front of it. Latitude is perpendicular to
- longitude, so platitudes must be perpendicular to plongitudes. A platitude is
- something that is trite but true. So a plongitude, at right angles to it,
- must be something that is profound but utterly false."
-
- Paraphrased from memory, and I have no idea if it's his originally, but I
- always attribute it to him.
-
- --
- ---Alfvaen(Still looking for "October's Baby")
- "I'm gonna follow my feelings...I'm gonna follow my senses...I'm gonna follow my compass!"
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