change from the bottom up

[Wilson Gray]

Oh. Thanks, Larry. I didn't know. Would that I had written, "... but I
don't know 'DK'"! Oh, well.

-Wilson

On 4/20/07, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> >I know NFL, but what is "DK"?
> >
> >-Wilson
>
> don't know.
>
> LH
>
> >
> >On 4/19/07, Baker, John <JMB at stradley.com> wrote:
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> >>         Oll Korrect.
> >>
> >>         BFD I know, but NFL (in this sense) is new to me.
> >>
> >>
> >>John Baker
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> >>Of James Harbeck
> >>Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:04 PM
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> >>Subject: Re: change from the bottom up
> >>
> >>>Surely it is an IM or text messaging
> >>>initialism like LOL.  Didn't everything start with the internet?
> >>
> >>DK.
> >>
> >>NFL.
> >>
> >>BFD.
> >>
> >>James Harbeck.
> >>
> >>(The second initialism was one that my brother and I, and I think we
> >>weren't the only ones, used to express an assessment of particular
> >>unlikeliness. ca. 1980. I think the third one is, or was, rather common,
> >>at least in our neck of the woods. Hands up if you know it.)
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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                                                      -Sam'l Clemens

"Experience" is the ability to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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