-- At 07:49 AM 10/2/2000 -0400, R. A. Hettinga wrote: If you're in a hurry to actually back up your assertion, however, you're welcome to do so sooner, if you would like. :-). How can I prove Churchill did not say this? The problem is the curious absence of evidence that he did say it. The words sound more Chomskian than Churchillian. As with so many remarkably Chomsy sounding quotes the source is so vague that failure to find it can never be held as proof that Chomsky made it up. If Churchill really said such a thing, we would have some source better than Chomsky for it, and if Churchill really did say it, Chomsky would have given us a source that was possible to verify. --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG szxxNSRTF2hqGokTe4pEi1HN0v7ML+gJClXW1Vcu 4i2EZSRU++C5ilvvAmDcHPpIjAAdRwU9+ndWqhck2