[Sca-cooks] OT OOP English was (Re: Drive up ATM's OT, OOP)

Philip & Susan Troy troy at asan.com
Thu May 23 04:41:04 PDT 2002


Also sprach Randy Goldberg MD:
>  > > > "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.

Does the libretto contain the spoken lines, a.k.a. the "book"?

Adamantius



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