Re: Opera 9.0 Final released - Q: worth updating?

de wyrwolf 06/22/2006 03:03

Lou@its.invalid wrote in news:4499341E.C0F680E6@yahoo.com:
>> --
>> The Lurkers Creed
>> 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool...
>> Than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
>
> Your sig resembles this...
> "It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid,
> than to open it and remove all doubt" Mark Twain
>

as a matter of fact I just read something about the provenance of it and
Twain is one of a couple people considered as possibly the first to
popularize the saying. there are a couple others contenders tho and the
form I've chosen is more along the lines of an old folk-saying. Like
many such, the forms evolve over generations i) making it hard to trace
back and ii) raising one or two of the forms to be the (currently)
'commonly-accepted' form
all of which is irrelevant as I am laying no claim to originating the
quote or even quoting for that manner - I am merely postulating a
maxim (in the manner of Murphy's Law, the Peter Principle, or the
Exception Rule : All rules have an exception...except this one.)
Thanks for stopping by <G>

--
The Lurkers Creed
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool...
Than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.