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   FRANK SCHEIDT to BOB KLAHN   
   Can You Say It?   
   02 Mar 12 21:59:30   
   
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   ->  FS> I disagree.  Lyndon Johnson's beloved Vietnam "war" caused   
   ->  FS> a general distrust of government, followed by a distrust of   
   ->  FS> *all* authority.  Then the so-called "counter culture" came   
   ->  FS> up with expressions later dubbed "politically-correct",   
   ->  FS> i.e., those expressions they agreed with.   
   ->    
   ->  The oldest usage of politically correct I have encountered was   
   ->  in the book, I Claudius, which was written in 1934.   
      
   Ha!  Claudius was an ancient Roman hence was probably dead -- or at least   
   so elderly as to be helpless and unable to speak -- in 1934.   
      
   Q.E.D. I win yet ANOTHER debate!!   
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