[thechat] QOTD (was Re: Marriage)

[Chris Spruck]

At 11:22 PM 3/22/01 -0700, you wrote:
>I'm sure there is, but I happened upon it via the QOTD mailing list...
>which, sadly, is now defunct.  I wonder if I could start up my own?  Dan,
>help?

I get the Word-A-Day list, which also has a built in QOTD. Not quite as fun 
as your own list with your own choice of quotes, but then you don't have 
the hassle of running your own list either. :) Here's a sample with 
subscription info towards the bottom.

Chris
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obiter dictum (OB-i-tuhr DIK-tuhm) noun, plural obiter dicta

    1. A passing comment.

    2. An observation or opinion by a judge that is incidental to the case in
       question, and not binding as precedent.

[From Latin, literally, saying by the way.]

    "`Abstract Expressionism was being deployed as a cold war weapon,' (Frances
    Stonor) Saunders jauntily asserts. ... Obiter dicta like Saunders's
    pronouncement above highlight her irreducible problem."
    Josef Joffe, America's secret weapon, New York Times Book Review, Apr 23,
    2000.

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