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From: Toby Thain <toby@telegraphics.com.au>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] more bad news from Lucent
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:55:40 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3B505947.7A6DAB60@telegraphics.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <25486.994896445@apnic.net>

George Michaelson wrote:
>
> Flann O'Brien, aka Miles Na Gopaleen. The catechism of cliche'
>
> -George


Gustave Flaubert, The Dictionary of Received Ideas:
"BLACK  Always followed by 'as ebony' or preceded by 'jet'.
...
DISTINCTION  Always preceded by 'rare'.
...
POLICEMAN  Bulwark of society. Don't say 'the police' but 'the forces of
law and order' or 'the constabulary'."

Plenty more.

T


  reply	other threads:[~2001-07-16  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-07-11 16:32 jmk
2001-07-11 17:40 ` Theo Honohan
2001-07-11 18:26 ` Dan Cross
2001-07-11 22:25   ` Jason Gurtz
2001-07-11 18:36 ` Quinn Dunkan
2001-07-11 18:45   ` chad
2001-07-12  0:07 ` George Michaelson
2001-07-16  8:55   ` Toby Thain [this message]
2001-07-16  9:40     ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-15  9:12       ` Zebedee
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-07-11 10:54 [9fans] General question about hosted interfaces forsyth
2001-07-11 10:58 ` Lucio De Re
2001-07-11 12:56   ` [9fans] more bad news from Lucent Matt

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