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mmcirvin ([personal profile] mmcirvin) wrote2006-01-03 07:30 pm

Pluto and misquotes

[livejournal.com profile] james_nicoll links to an interesting paper on Pluto's moons, then somebody mentions that something he said on Usenet in 1990 is commonly misattributed to Booker T. Washington. I've seen myself quoted as "Anonymous" once or twice, but Nicoll has clearly hit the big time.

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Here's a search that gets the whole sentence (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=%22When+my+grandmother+got+arthritis%22+%2B%22hand-job%22&btnG=Search)...

[identity profile] mmcirvin.livejournal.com 2006-01-04 07:19 am (UTC)(link)
(Google seems to have a limit on the number of keywords it'll accept, so putting in that many just gets you the glurgey version.)