JAZZ <-- JASS

[AAllan at AOL.COM]

In a message dated 4/3/01 12:56:01 AM, douglas at NB.NET writes:

<< But wait! On the same page, a citation (baseball, not exactly music or sex,
but maybe worth a look!): "very much to the jazz": "San Francisco
Bulletin", 3 March 1906!

Unfortunately this reads too much like Gerald Cohen's citation from the
"San Francisco Bulletin", 3 March 1913.

Why do these boo-boos occur so often? Must be Spode's Law or Sod's Law or
something. >>

Perhaps there is some law of memory: The purported date of an event recedes
in memory over time. Or, long-ago events seem more long ago than they are.
Doesn't this happen with the birth dates of very old people?

- Allan Metcalf