[Ads-l] to "last an antiquity"

[Laurence Horn]

Or how do we know he didn't mean "last an eternity" and it came out "last
an antiquity"?

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 2:15 PM Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

> How do we know he didn't say "last in antiquity"? Still wrong, but closer
> to correctitudinousness.
> DanG
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 12:42 PM George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > From The Guardian.
> >
> > “I think this original indictment was engineered to last a thousand years
> > and now this superseding indictment will last an antiquity,” Ty Cobb told
> > CNN. “This is such a tight case, the evidence is so overwhelming.”
> >
> > Ty Cobb is a lawyer who has represented ex-president Trump in the past.
> > He's referring to one of the current investigations.
> >
> > This figure of speech puzzles me.  Antiquity lasted a hell of a long
> time,
> > to be sure, but he's projecting it into the future.
> >
> > The article's headline is
> > Ex-Trump lawyer says evidence against him ‘overwhelming’ in Mar-a-Lago
> > case.
> > GAT
> >
> > --
> > George A. Thompson
> > Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
> > Univ. Pr., 1998.
> >
> > But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
> > your lowly tomb. . .
> > L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112
> >
> > The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
> > picture of his great-grandfather.)
> >
> >
> >
> https://heritagecollections.parliament.uk/collections/getrecord/HOP_WOA_3851
> >
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