[64932] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: attribution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucy E. Lynch)
Wed Nov 5 11:18:43 2003
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 08:16:12 -0800 (PST)
From: "Lucy E. Lynch" <llynch@darkwing.uoregon.edu>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E1AHGM1-00020L-O3@ran.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
see:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/invitational/invit980802.htm
Dopeler effect: the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they
come at you rapidly. (Greg Oetjen, Lorton)
and he seems to be a Bridge player from VA...
Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services
Computing Center University of Oregon
llynch @darkwing.uoregon.edu (541) 346-1774/Cell: 912-7998
On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> in chicago, kc attributed this quote to me
>
> Dopeler effect: the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter
> when they come at you rapidly.
>
> the closest attribution i have is
>
> The Washington Post's "Style Invitational" asked readers to
> take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding,
> subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new
> definition.
>
> randy
>
