RE: clingons

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Robert W. Schramm wrote:

> Judy,
> Do you mean Klingons? And wern't they the race that was at war with the Empire?
> I think it should be, "Nationalism is the last refuge of evil."
I'm punning, Bob... and there are worse sins (somewhere!)...

J.


> Sorry if that offends anyone.
> Bob Schramm
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> > Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 00:36:04 -0500
> > From: jseigel@panix.com
> > Subject: clingons
> > To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
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> >
> > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Ryuji Suzuki wrote:
> >
> > > "Patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings."
> > > (Bob Dylan, Sweetheart Like You, 1983)
> > Ouch, ouch ouch!
> >
> > Samuel Johnson's original, as recorded by Boswell in
> > "Life of Johnson," 1775 (& indexed in Bartlett's) was:
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> > "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
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> > However the phrase is usually given as "... last refuge of scoundrels" --
> > that is, in the plural, which sounds much better (at least to this ear).
> >
> > Hard to believe in any event that Bob Dylan could do something so flat,
> > but maybe the music (or the whine ?) helped.
> >
> > J.