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- From: columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: This was writ satiric (was: Explain this group)
- Date: 22 Dec 92 10:33:17
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
- Lines: 22
- Message-ID: <COLUMBUS.92Dec22103317@strident.think.com>
- References: <1992Dec21.132320.14478@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- <COLUMBUS.92Dec21093209@strident.think.com> <BznCzq.H16@andy.bgsu.edu>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: strident.think.com
- In-reply-to: edwards@andy.bgsu.edu's message of Tue, 22 Dec 1992 06:07:01 GMT
-
- Oh boy, leave out a smiley and you're doomed.
-
- In article <1992Dec21.132320.14478@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Mike.Oniffrey@launchpad.unc.edu (Mike Oniffrey) writes:
-
- What type of quotes are discussed here? Can one submit personally
- authored quotes? Hmmmm...
-
- ObQuote: Anything humanly conceivable has already, or is at this very
- moment, occuring somewhere on this planet or elsewhere in the
- cosmos.
-
- I replied, tongue-in-cheek:
-
- Verily, there is indeed nothing new under the sun. I could swear I've read
- the above sentiment, except more pithily expressed.....
-
- I knew perfectly well the quotation was from Ecclesiastes. I meant, of
- course, that "There is nothing new under the sun" is a more pithy
- expression of "Anything humanly ..." (To be pedantic, I do not claim the
- two quotations have identical meanings.) And then to have the ObQuote
- attributed to me by a careless poster! Arghh...
-