NYT Blogs: Headline from Pogue's Posts

[Jonathan Lighter]

The one I recall is "Often imitated, never equaled."

JL

On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
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> "Steve Jobs: Imitated, Never Duplicated"
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> Others of a certain age age, are , no doubt, reminded of an old
> advertising slogan.
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> GB takes it back to (at least) 1906:
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> "CAMERON PUMPS. _Often Imitated, Never Excelled_."
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> http://goo.gl/b56c8
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> GB takes another variant back to 1861:
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> "… with a valor and determination _seldom equaled, never excelled_."
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> http://goo.gl/7yYfx
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