Ghost-Written Famous Quotations
James Harbeck
jharbeck at SYMPATICO.CA
Sat Jun 30 21:37:33 UTC 2007
>Upon reflection, I was too restrained in my praise of Nigel Rees's
>publications. There are many outstanding discoveries in Rees's work, and
>I got as much good information from his work as from Keyes' work,
>probably even more.
I became a big fan of Rees in the early 1980s with his collections of
graffiti. Got a lot of my best one-liners from them... Naturally,
they also give some good angles on some popular idioms.
James Harbeck.
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