that sucks

Mark Mandel thnidu at GMAIL.COM
Fri Mar 28 00:39:18 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
>
> At 7:55 PM -0400 3/27/08, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>
> >I am about the same age as Dennis, and like him I remember being confused in
> >the late 1960s at something someone had written on a bathroom wall: "The
> >Universe sucks."
>
> Wasn't the full quote
>
> THERE IS NO GRAVITY--THE UNIVERSE SUCKS
> or "THE EARTH SUCKS", depending on your theory?


 THERE IS NO GRAVITY--THE EARTH SUCKS
 is how I encountered it.

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Mark Mandel

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