On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 1:19 PM, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually Sagan may not have used the phrase "billions and billions" but it > (too?) may have been a misquote that came to be associated with him (like > "play it again, Sam" and "beam me up, Scotty!") >
Oops, sorry for stepping on your toes :) I didn't know that "beam me up, Scotty!" was also a misquote (!) I will have to agree with John Lydon: "the written word is a lie!" > > > On 23 April 2014 23:16, LizR <lizj...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Oh, and to really stick my neck out, I think the phrase "billions and >> billions" became a cliché through Carl Sagan using it in the TV programme >> "Cosmos" so I suspect (but have zero proof) that this quote is attributed >> to Sam Clemens but is in fact either made up or misquoted. My theory is >> that someone either invented it or altered it from an original quote which >> didn't include that phrase, and that they did so more recently than the >> original broadcast of "Cosmos" which I think was in the 1980s... >> >> :-) >> >> Just a hunch, my dear Watson. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
