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- From: tdmoy@cco.caltech.edu (Timothy D. Moy)
- Subject: Source: If it looks like a duck...
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.215356.26905@cco.caltech.edu>
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- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 21:53:56 GMT
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- I am about 98% certain that the source of this saying was your favorite
- Wisconsinian and mine, the late Senator Joe McCarthy. He made the
- statement as a parallel to "If someone looks like a Communist and
- walks like a Communist, he's probably a Communist." Or something like
- that.
-
- The statement led to an interesting exchange on the floor of the Senate,
- with some prodding McCarthy to describe how a Communist walks. He got
- out of it in typical form, pledging not to reduce the level of debate
- by responding to such ridiculous questions.
-
- Timothy Moy
- Getting slightly disenchanted with NB
- tdmoy@cco.caltech.edu
-