-=> FRANK SCHEIDT wrote to BOB KLAHN <=-   
      
    ->  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.   
      
    FS> Ha!  Claudius was an ancient Roman hence was probably dead -- or at   
    FS> least so elderly as to be helpless and unable to speak -- in 1934.   
      
    FS> Q.E.D. I win yet ANOTHER debate!!   
      
   Not hardly. I Claudius was a book about (marginally about) the Roman Emperor -   
   and his ol' lady, Messilina, who really, really, really liked sailors.   
      
   So, your statement is a net loss.   
      
   ... The author of the Iliad is either Homer or somebody else of the same name.   
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