Re: OT: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)
| From: | Thomas R. Wier <artabanos@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 8, 2000, 15:12 |
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The Gray Wizard wrote:
> > From: BP Jonsson
> >
> > At 16:13 07.8.2000 -0400, John Cowan wrote:
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> > >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)
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