Don't like weather? Wait fi ve minutes (1934)

[Laurence Horn]

At 2:27 PM -0400 8/4/03, Baker, John wrote:
>         This is frequently misattributed to Mark Twain.

I thought that was "Everybody talks about the weather but nobody does
anything about it", which quite likely wasn't actually said by him
either.

larry

>  According to an article on the Internet, it was shown that this did
>not come from Twain in Kim A. McDonald, "Many of Mark Twain's Famed
>Humorous Sayings Are Found to Have Been Misattributed to Him,"
>Chronicle of Higher Education (Sept. 4, 1991), A8.  I haven't seen
>McDonald's piece and don't know if it has any useful information.
>As for the cites below, 1969 clearly is much too late, while the
>1934 quote does not have the usual wording.
>
>John Baker
>