"There's a saying..." (Part One)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> ... stretches the truth now and again. But there's a saying in journalism.
> "One
> is an event. Two is a coincidence. Three is a trend." And ...
> www.badculture.com/archives/000148.html - 15k - Cached - Similar pages

This reminds me of: "They have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance.
Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.'" (Ian Fleming,
Goldfinger)

Fred Shapiro


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