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Re: Sale announcements (Was Beware more SPAM...)
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Mon, 25 Sep 2000 23:38:40 GMT
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Christopher Weeks wrote:
> Uh...I'm not sure how I could have been taken as just playing devil's advocate.
> I was seriously interested in where those phrases came from. I'm sure it's
> just some pop icon that I don't know about because I don't watch TV. I do know
> how they're used and stuff, I am merely interested in the origin.
I believe that currently their use is in Martha Stewart's TV show (and
other productions). However, they were catchphrases in a popular spoof
history book when I was a kid called "1066 and all that" along with
verdicts on various rulers (eg "he was a Good Man but a Bad King")
Kevin
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