To: OldDeckHand
That is why crediting facts to ‘the internet’ is worthless, and crediting them to wikipedia is not much better.
11 posted on
07/01/2010 1:32:05 PM PDT by
Lucius Cornelius Sulla
(Good night. I expect more respect tomorrow - Danny H (RIP))
To: Lucius Cornelius Sulla
That is why crediting facts to ‘the internet’ is worthless, and crediting them to wikipedia is not much better. Or Webster's. Anyone can slap "Webster's" onto their book--it doesn't indicate relation to Webster's scholarship. For example, this quote is attributed to Alexis de Tocqueville in "Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases" published by Icon Group International, Inc.
15 posted on
07/01/2010 2:10:03 PM PDT by
Gondring
(Paul Revere would have been flamed as a naysayer troll and told to go back to Boston.)
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