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Lopsided-Advice-5027 t1_itug0dg wrote

Didn’t this actually happen though? I’m sure I read it in a book that had records of actual conversations

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iTanooki t1_ituu4bk wrote

I know an exchange similar to this was in one of Richard Letterer’s books. Probably Anguished English.

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Lopsided-Advice-5027 t1_ituu9eo wrote

Oh god Anguished English. That unlocked an old memory, think my mum had it when I was a kid

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iTanooki t1_ituwa2k wrote

The audiobook was never released in a digital format, but I snagged a cassette tape a while back.

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geekahedron t1_ituuv2a wrote

It's been floating around the internet as a real quote since at least 1998, when it was published a reported transcript in National Review magazine (as reported at the time by NCCPR).

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kobrakai1034 t1_itvfpjn wrote

It did. A court reporter released a book of crazy depositions she'd heard over the years.

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