lawyer/liar confluence

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Wed Apr 16 19:32:04 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>  Maybe Dick the Butcher in "Julius Caesar" was really ("The first
>  thing we do...") recommending the genocide of prevaricators, not
>  attorneys.

That's the first I've heard of either of those being an ethnic group.

m a m

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