"don't think zebras"

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:53 PM +0000 2/19/10, ronbutters at aol.com wrote:
>Sometimes you need to think zebras. One was captured yesterday
>clopping around in downtown Atlanta.

Well, as my doctor always told me, if you hear hoofbeats and see
black and white stripes, think zebras, not skunkhorses.

LH

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>From: Joel S. Berson
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>At 2/19/2010 07:56 AM, Charles Doyle wrote:
>>Of course, the saying is a figurative statement of the so-called
>>"principle of parsimony," a correlary of "Ockham's razor."
>
>Has anyone looked for it in Latin?
>
>Joel
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