[Ads-l] to "last an antiquity"

[Laurence Horn]

Even Ty Cobb's namesake descendant a century ago hit only .367 for his
career, so more outs than hits. It's a tough game.

LH

On Sat, Jul 29, 2023 at 10:39 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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