[Ads-l] "There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea."

[Jonathan Lighter]

Well, gee, if "you can kill a man but not an idea," then obviously there's
no good way to kill a bad idea.

JL

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 12:25 AM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW, here's my original source:
>
> 'There's No Good Way To Kill a Bad Idea'
>     from the trouble-in-our-stars dept.
>     posted by msmash on Monday May 01, @12:00 (Businesses)
>     with 227 comments
>     https://slashdot.org/story/17/05/01/1428232/theres-no-good-
> way-to-kill-a-bad-idea?utm_source=headlines&utm_medium=email
>
> On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 7:32 PM, Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Parameters, US Army War College Quarterly, Volume 29, Number 3, September
> > 1989, page 121.
> >
> > Book review, Assignment Pentagon. The Insider’s guide to the Potomac
> > Puzzle Palace.
> >
> > "Smith has a sharp ear for Pentagon truisms (forgetting only the
> > oft-proved Pentagon aphorism that you can’t kill a bad idea); and he
> > provides a strong and perceptive closing analysis of likely Pentagon
> > changes in the 1990s that examines subjects ranging fro the electronic
> > office to the role of the JCS Vice Chairman."
> >
> > HathiTrust.
> >
> >
> >
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> > Not the full quote, but getting there:
> >
> > https://books.google.com/books?id=DaQm_hqLCBQC&pg=PA14&
> > dq=%22to+kill+a+bad+idea%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj1_c6-
> > gNLTAhUE4SYKHaImB_UQ6AEIHDAA
> >
> > On May 2, 2017 3:56 PM, "Wilson Gray" <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It seems to me that this is an old saw that's been around since
> ca.1945-55,
> > at least. But there are only 57 hits, going back only about ten years.
> > --
> > -Wilson
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