[Ads-l] Quote: The man who is good at making an excuse is seldom good at anything else

ADSGarson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Thu Mar 8 18:56:25 UTC 2018


Dan Goncharoff wrote:
> DF = Dr. Franklin? That is how he is referred to in the anecdote.

Yes, that seems possible, and I included that suggestion in the draft
article, but I removed it because I couldn't think of a similar
example.
Garson

> On Mar 8, 2018 1:39 PM, "Mark Mandel" <thnidu at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> No, I take it back. "D.F." is in the source.
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>> Mark
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>> On Mar 8, 2018 12:02 PM, "Mark Mandel" <mark.a.mandel at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mar 8, 2018 5:26 AM, "Stephen Goranson" <goranson at duke.edu> wrote:
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>> A very minor typo: Printed be--> Printed by
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>> And presumably
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>> Anecdotes of D.F.  ->  Anecdotes of B.F.
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>> Yes?
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>> Mark
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