[OT] Double-Positive [WAS: Re: Replace slash by underscroe in file name]
[OT] Double-Positive [WAS: Re: Replace slash by underscroe in file name]
- Subject: [OT] Double-Positive [WAS: Re: Replace slash by underscroe in file name]
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:14:11 -0800
- Thread-topic: [OT] Double-Positive [WAS: Re: Replace slash by underscroe in file name]
On 3/23/06 11:41 AM, "Paul Berkowitz" <email@hidden> wrote:
> On 3/23/06 11:06 AM, "kai" <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 23 Mar 2006, at 19:00, Michelle Steiner wrote:
>>
>>> Or as the English professor said, "Although two negatives make a
>>> positive, two positives never make a negative," to which the
>>> student replied, "Yeah. Sure."
>>
>> Cute. :-)
>
> This actually happened. It was not a student, but a professor of philosophy
> at a colleague's guest lecture. It happened in the 1950s. (May have happened
> spontaneously elsewhere too, I suppose but this one is documented.) The man
> died last year, and the story was told on NPR. I've forgotten his name, the
> place was New York. I'm googling at the moment to track it down, but it's
> kind of difficult to get a handle on it without the name... (just got
> another apocryphal story about a Scottish "student" - this version quotes
> "Aye. Right.")
As kai wrote me off-list (unless it was Reply All and the server is slow):
> Sidney Morgenbesser, perhaps?
Yes indeed!
>
> http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?
> Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/
> 2004/08/03&ID=Ar01400
> http://thettablog.blogspot.com/2005/06/ttablog-answer-to-double-
> positive-quiz.html
[This message has been protected for Emmanuel and others by a new OT subject
designation.] ;-)
--
Paul Berkowitz
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