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

From:The Gray Wizard <dbell@...>
Date:Tuesday, August 8, 2000, 13:07
> 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. David David E. Bell The Gray Wizard dbell@graywizard.net www.graywizard.net "Wisdom begins in wonder." - Socrates