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Re: OT: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)

From:Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 8, 2000, 15:12
The Gray Wizard wrote:

> > From: BP Jonsson > > > > At 16:13 07.8.2000 -0400, John Cowan wrote: > > > > >A playwright once telegraphed "?" to his producer to enquire how the > > >first night of his new play had gone. The producer replied "!". > > > > In Sweden it is told about an actor enquiring how his colleague's meeting > > with Strindberg went. Probably a total apocryph. > > The version I heard (surely derivative) involved two APL programmers > inquiring about the progress of their coding efforts.
I would be shocked if it's not occurred many, many times before, mostly independently. It's a very intuitive kind of witticism. (Sorry if you're getting this twice, David) ====================================== Tom Wier | "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero." ======================================