believe it or not (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/10/2012 02:28 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC wrote:
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>Perhaps a precursor to Wolfgang Pauli's "That's not right, that's not
>even wrong."?

But those are not two of the flavors of quarks.

Joel


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> > Here's a folk saying that seems to have been overlooked despite its
> > excellence:
> >
> > 1899 _The Speaker_  (London) (Jan. 28) 115: But they hardly seem to
> > have attained that highest stage of art when a man is "such a liar
>that
> > you cannot even believe the opposite of what he says."
> >
> > 1947 _Soviet Russia Today_ XV (No. 8) 6 [GB snippet]: It reminds me
> > sometimes of the Irishman who said of another Irishman, "The man is
> > such a liar that you cannot even believe the opposite of what he
>says."
> >
> > 1963 Richard W. Rowan _Cuba: The Big Red Lie_  (Kingston, N.Y.: Quinn)
> > 41:
> > A famous Chief of Intelligence once said of a foreign diplomat from
> > whom it had been hoped to gain certain vital intelligence: "You can't
> > even believe the opposite of what he says."
> >
> > 1968 D. N. Pritt, in _Labour Monthly_ (March) 142: That government has
> > now reached the class described by an Irishman who said that his
> > opponent was "such a liar that you cannot even believe the opposite of
> > what he says."
> >
> > 1988 _Jewish Frontier_ LV [GB snippet]: The type Abba Eban had in mind
> > when he quipped: "You can't even believe the opposite of what he
>says."
> >
> > 2010
> >
>http://www.elitetrader.com/vB/showthread.php?s=0d2085a3ccd00d11cdcb64c1
> > 371c9dae&postid=2879703:
> > Anything Soros says is suspect. Every word out of his mouth is self-
> > serving. You probably cannot even believe the opposite of what he says
> > .
> >
> > JL
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> > "If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the
> > truth."
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