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April 1, 2005
April 1, A Dangerous Day to Post
I was thinking of writing on one of the following topics today.
Dead Sea Scroll Scholars Find First Century MSS of the Revelation of John Written in English
Michael Shermer Advocates Teaching the Controversy
Discovery Institute Drops Wedge Strategy as Unethical
Michio Kaku Calls for Reconsideration of Flat Earth Hypothesis
President Bush Says There Was No Terrorist Related Justification For War With Iraq
Here's the problem. Of my few readers, some small subset will believe the hoax but most (I hope) will think it false. Of the latter group, there will likely be some who think it false but think I believe it. I am now in a risk avoidance mode so I will simply recall what Mark Twain famously wrote in Following the Equator.
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
The complete paragraph containing this sentence is:
The Scot (a fellow passenger on part of Twain's trip) is always believed, yet he never tells anything but lies; whereas the captain is never believed, although he never tells a lie, so far as I can judge. If he should say his uncle was a male person, he would probably say it in such a way that nobody would believe it; at the same time the Scot could claim that he had a female uncle and not stir a doubt in anybody's mind. My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anybody would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
Perhaps I will post something serious later. That is, if I get my courage up.
Posted by Duane Smith at April 1, 2005 10:39 AM | Read more on Humor |
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