Black ice morning
Mar. 13th, 2006 08:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jhetley(No, not the electronic SF hacker/cracker defense)
Yesterday's rain cleared out at dusk, leaving moon and stars and water on the surfaces and also damp air, which promptly congealed on any available pavement. I expect reports of multiple idiots off the road or attempting to climb trees with their SUVs.
You'd think that by mid-March, surviving Maine drivers would have an effing _clue_...
Speaking of clues, I'm trying to figure out when to whack Fat Wizard with a clue-by-four. I'm dealing with Something Everybody Knows, and it's like that Will Rogers saying* -- "It's not what he don't know that bothers me, it's what he knows for certain that just ain't so."
Anyway, if a particular "fact" isn't true, he has to punch the reset button on his universe.
*Probably misquoted, but I am, as usual, too lazy to do the research.
Yesterday's rain cleared out at dusk, leaving moon and stars and water on the surfaces and also damp air, which promptly congealed on any available pavement. I expect reports of multiple idiots off the road or attempting to climb trees with their SUVs.
You'd think that by mid-March, surviving Maine drivers would have an effing _clue_...
Speaking of clues, I'm trying to figure out when to whack Fat Wizard with a clue-by-four. I'm dealing with Something Everybody Knows, and it's like that Will Rogers saying* -- "It's not what he don't know that bothers me, it's what he knows for certain that just ain't so."
Anyway, if a particular "fact" isn't true, he has to punch the reset button on his universe.
*Probably misquoted, but I am, as usual, too lazy to do the research.
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He finds a WILLing horse, and then ROGERS it...
Date: 2006-03-13 07:53 am (UTC)"It's not what we know, but what we know that ain't so that gets us into trouble.
A recent reference gives:
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
--- Will Rogers The Harper Book of Quotations 3rd ed, Robert I. Fitzhenry, editor (No source cited.)
While I have only one citation for source, I have the following quotes in my list. If anyone has sources for the rest, I'd love to have them. This appears to be one of those quotes that got widely used and rephrased. Here are several, in the chronological order I think they were probably first stated,from the dates of the
men who said them. It seems reasonable to assume that Hubbard and Rogers, at least, were repeating variationsof Artemus Ward. Comments on this deduction, anyone? More sources?
It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.
--- Artemus Ward (1834-67), U.S. journalist.
It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.
--- H.W. Shaw (Josh Billings)
Josh Billings' Encyclopaedia of Wit and Wisdom, 1874 [from H.L. Mencken's
Encyclopedia of Quotations]
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so.
--- Will Rogers (1879-1935), U.S. humorist.
Tain't what a man don't know that hurts him; it's what he knows for certain that just ain't so!
--- Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard (1868-1930), U.S. humorist, journalist.
Above courtesy of Dave Kifer."
Re: He finds a WILLing horse, and then ROGERS it...
Date: 2006-03-13 09:31 am (UTC)It _looks_ like it was something in the air, late 1800s/early 1900s.