From: | Ph. D. <phild@...> |
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Date: | Tuesday, June 15, 2004, 4:06 |
John Cowan wrote:> > (There is, to be sure, the engaging testimony of > an Irish stonemason in the matter of a Celtic cross > which had collapsed in a churchyard, thus: "The > Gaels put it up, and the gales blew it down." The > jury found for his employers, the defendants.)My favorite: "This building was raised in 1914, and it was razed in 1974." --Ph. D.