[thechat] "thumbs up" or "screw you"
William Anderson
neuro at well.com
Mon Apr 7 21:25:28 CDT 2003
deacon b. wrote:
> [snip]
>
> fic·tion
> n.
>
> 1. An imaginative creation or a pretense that
> does not represent actuality but has been
> invented.
problem with that is that the colisseum (sp?), the roman empire and the
process of gladiators battling, the thumbs up/down paradigm weren't the
progeny of a fevered scriptwriter, but grounded in fact - you think they
might have gotten that one thing researched and checked instead of
perpetuating what now appears to be a timeworn factual error.
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