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|    Aidan Kehoe to All    |
|    Re: Byron died (19-4-1824)    |
|    20 Apr 24 08:47:32    |
      From: kehoea@parhasard.net               Ar an fichiú lá de mí Aibreán, scríobh Ross Clark:               > [...] The other Byron quote (too long to copy) is about meeting the        > celebrated "hyperpolyglot", Cardinal Mezzofanti.        >        > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Caspar_Mezzofanti              Now that’s a Wikipedia article full of suspicion!              --       ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /       How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’       (C. Moore)              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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