[Ads-l] to "last an antiquity"

[Jonathan Lighter]

I heard the clip replayed last night. He says, "last to antiquity" with a
momentary repetition of "an-," as though unsure of the word.

I assume the lapse was influenced somehow by "a thousand years,"

Surely Cobb meant "eternity."

JL

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 2:32 PM Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu>
wrote:

> 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.)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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