…and the lightning cable 🤠
- Found on Bartleby.com (a letter to George Bainton), September 15, 1888
- Mark Twain, a.k.a, Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), Wikipedia
The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter—’tis the difference between the lightning‐bug and the lightning.
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Found: Random-facts-from-the-internet.txt on a deeply‐buried folder on my HD. Decided to ask the internet again and this apparently is false. According to Mr. Stitt, rupturewort, proprietory, and proterotype are all longer than typewriter—only by a single letter, but…longer. Guess …
Found: listening to Jill Lepore’s brilliant collection of essays, The Deadline: Essays. Specifically, she quoted Benjamin Franklin in Chapter 12, Valley of the Dolls, which is about the Barbie vs Bratz legal battle and …
From an interview with the late, great Larry King. Back in 1975, six of his shows were being broadcast every week to a prime‐time audience: “All in the Family” “Maude” “Good Times” “The Jeffersons” “Sanford and Son” …
…I suppose that’s the problem.
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