cynical folk wisdom
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jul 13 21:06:47 UTC 2012
I was searching for the earliest appearance of the observation that
"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool" and found this
website of phrases said to have been read on bumper stickers:
http://www.hilliard.ws/bumstick.htm
There are pther such sites.
And cf. "Make it idiot-proof and someone will invent a better idiot."
JL
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