Daily Candy Lexicon #5

Wed Sep 24 16:56:24 UTC 2003

On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 09:33 AM, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

>    It's lame.  "Keep It Simple, Stupid" is here.  That's only, what,
> about 40 years old?
>    From yesterday's (22 September 2003) NEW YORK SUN.

i can vouch for 33 years.  KISS appeared on a student evaluation of a
colleague's teaching in 1970.  it was the first time i'd heard it, but
it was clearly current among students and professors in my
institution's college of education, where it served as a teaching
slogan.

arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)