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Here's another good quote, related by John Graves:
"For ourselves we measure—for our guests we just pour." Bertrand Russell, when his secretary started to use a shot glass to measure while fixing my drink of bourbon neat.
http://www.thegravesite.com/faboutjohn.html
That's certainly an unexpected addition.
It was a toss-up between that one and the knee-slapper about Gödel, Wittgenstein and the blind rabbi.
Now, that made me chuckle. You have an appealingly dry wit, doubly so for someone who lives south of the Mason-Dixon line.
Thanks, I've probably read too much Woody Allen.
And Orson Bean.
From Boing Boing: The typos in this Bertrand Russell quote could be fodder for a lengthy Douglas Hofstadter essay.
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