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Re: attribution

  • From: Lucy E. Lynch
  • Date: Wed Nov 05 11:21:18 2003 
see:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/invitational/invit980802.htm

Dopeler effect: the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they
come at you rapidly. (Greg Oetjen, Lorton)

and he seems to be a Bridge player from VA...

Lucy E. Lynch 				Academic User Services
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On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Randy Bush wrote:

>
> in chicago, kc attributed this quote to me
>
>     Dopeler effect: the tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter
>     when they come at you rapidly.
>
> the closest attribution i have is
>
>     The Washington Post's "Style Invitational" asked readers to
>     take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding,
>     subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new
>     definition.
>
> randy
>