I can't prove Peter said it.

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ER — 10/21/2013 5:32:47 PM (archived)

But an LJ Peter calendar I once had on my desk used that as its epigram for the day. (And no, I don't remember which day, either.)

Besides, whether LJP ever said it or not has nothing to do with whether or not it is true, or even whether or not it is clever. Precise citation would be just another meticulously documented irrelevancy, signifying nothing.

However, I know I did not think it up, and I didn't want to take credit for someone elses' bon mot.

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Yo, Robert. - ER - 10/18/2013 6:51:18 PM
- Yo more - Robert - 10/20/2013 3:35:45 AM
  - An excerpt from my memoirs...1964 - ER - 10/20/2013 1:50:58 PM
    - Yo're right - Robert - 10/20/2013 8:08:29 PM
      - I see the rebellion of the sixties as inevitability. - Jody - 10/21/2013 2:53:55 AM
        
        "Television fueled the have and have nots." - Robert - 10/22/2013 10:40:26 PM
        
        "If you convince everyone they're rugged individualists, - ER - 10/21/2013 11:39:51 AM
        
        I don't think Peter ever said that. - TB - 10/21/2013 5:23:58 PM
        
        I can't prove Peter said it. - ER - 10/21/2013 5:32:47 PM
        
        Besides... - TB - 10/21/2013 6:01:37 PM
        
        It's the classic fascist mistake. - ER - 10/21/2013 6:08:23 PM
        
        Wow. Only took one post that time. - TB - 10/21/2013 6:10:44 PM
        
        If you have to explain the joke, its not funny. - ER - 10/21/2013 6:29:15 PM
        
        Re: If you have to explain the joke, its not funny. - TB - 10/21/2013 6:48:37 PM
        
        No problem. It happens sometimes. - ER - 10/21/2013 9:59:42 PM
        
        I am not trying to convince anyone of anything - Jody - 10/21/2013 3:17:01 PM
        
        I found mine a long time ago. - ER - 10/21/2013 5:24:29 PM
      - America needs its commies, - ER - 10/20/2013 9:49:13 PM
        
        There doesn't have to be a causal relationship - Robert - 10/22/2013 10:45:28 PM
        
        "Causality is diffused." - ER - 10/23/2013 1:02:47 AM
        
        Feudal systems are self-organizing - Robert - 10/23/2013 1:46:21 AM
        
        That's the whole point in small government. - ER - 10/23/2013 2:36:42 AM
  - Yo Bama - ER - 10/20/2013 11:28:38 AM
    - Yo Manichean - Robert - 10/20/2013 8:00:28 PM
      - We live in a nation where a third of the population believes the rest of us have no business being here. - ER - 10/20/2013 9:29:17 PM
- Yo ER backatcha - Robert - 10/18/2013 8:32:30 PM
  - I've just finished reading the first leg of the Salon trilogy. - ER - 10/18/2013 11:42:46 PM
    - And I've just finished the last two. - ER - 10/19/2013 12:44:35 AM
  - You're good, Robert. Really, really good. - ER - 10/18/2013 9:56:56 PM

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