Does anyone remember this phrase? Does any software still spew it amidst the piles of spam clogging most email accounts, including mine? AOL, I suppose.
I ran across it the other day in Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver which made me laugh, it was so out of place, being spoken by a Seventeenth century master sergeant of foot to a prisoner in the Tower of London.
Quicksilver was published in 2003 when, I believe, the phrase was, more or less, still in common usage. Only seven years. My, how time doth fly.
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