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Article #624141Re: OT: Trump
From: Dave Garland
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 06:32
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 06:32
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On 7/15/2018 10:01 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2018 20:52:21 +0100, Ahem A Rivet's Shot > <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > >> On 14 Jul 2018 16:23:53 -0300 >> Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote: >> >>> self-referentially) the slogan, "Cream Rises". After awhile, after >>> reflection on the metaphor, he had to confess that scum also rises. >> >> I forget the origin now, but I rather liked this one: >> >> "The cream of society, or at least that which rises to the top" > > Twenty-five or so years ago, I saw a book of political cartoons > that was titled _The Scum Also Rises_. > > I liked the title, but I think your recollection to be even > better. > In 1903, George Bernard Shaw wrote (in the play "Man and Superman") "Abnormal professions attract two classes: those who are not good enough for ordinary bourgeois life and those who are too good for it. We are dregs and scum, sir: the dregs very filthy, the scum very superior. "
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