New to Python: Features

Daniel Ellison daniel at syrinx.net
Wed Oct 6 17:07:17 EDT 2004


Jeff Shannon wrote:
> That's always been my thought.  Another cliche phrase that seems to me 
> to be used counter to its explicit sense is the exclamation, "Oh the 
> humanity!"  The context always seems to suggest that it's being used to 
> imply INhumanity...

"Oh, the humanity!" is a direct quote from the radio host covering the 
arrival (and subsequent demise) of the Hindenburg at New Jersey's 
Lakehurst Naval Air Station in 1937. He was a bit perturbed at the time...

Dan



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