the X you have never Y
George Thompson
george.thompson at NYU.EDU
Sat Jan 29 23:59:44 UTC 2011
I have just received an email from the Sierra Club headed "The Scariest Company You've Never Heard Of".
I've been seeing statements in this form -- often headlines -- for some years now.
"The best book you have never read"
"The greatest baseball player you have never heard of"
Who was the first to use the formula is a pretty problem, one that would be extremely tiresome to solve by a search.
(The company is the Koch brothers' company.)
GAT
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much lately.
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