[Sca-cooks] OT OOP English was (Re: Drive up ATM's OT, OOP)
Randy Goldberg MD
goldberg at bestweb.net
Thu May 23 04:25:12 PDT 2002
> > > "You know the difference between 'pro-' and 'con-', right?"
> > > "Yeah..."
> > > "Well, if 'progress' means 'moving forward' or 'becoming
> > > better', then what
> > > does that say about 'congress'?"
> > >
>
> Wasn't this a line from the Broadway musical "1776"? Certainly this basic
> truth goes back that far.
It does go back that far, but I'm not aware of any such line in the text...
and it's my favorite musical. A quick glance through the libretto doesn't
reveal it, either.
Avraham
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