On Wednesday 19 March 2003 08:05, Tom Emerson wrote:
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On Tuesday 18 March 2003 9:27 pm, Jay Vollmer wrote:
On Tuesday 18 March 2003 10:51 pm, Peter B Van Campen wrote:
Forgive me but I must ask you what the words in your sig are all about?
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This is an example of "Newspeak" as described in Eric Blair's classic novel, "Nineteen Eighty-four."
Errrr.... you made me look on that one -- I had always known it to be by George Orwell, never heard of this "blair" character, but appearently Blair is a pseudonym that Orwell used -- chalk that up to "learning something today" [or history rewritten ;) ]
I thought Eric Blair was his real name and George Orwell the nom-de-plume. Dylan -- "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in a final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed—those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending its money alone—it is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children." —Dwight Eisenhower, Speech (1953)