Re: OT: interestin' factoids (mostly language-related)
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, August 8, 2000, 12:25 |
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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.
/BP 8^)>
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