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Igel

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7. Your signature line is mistaken.

Reply to syringis (Original post)

Sun Mar 4, 2018, 05:20 PM

Mar 2018

I'll assume it's not out of malice.

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/12/30/not-malice/

Towards the end is the misattribution which started out as basically sort of like something "Napolean" said to becoming an Internet faked. Uh ... fact.

West's formulation isn't all that bad, but I still like Hanlon's simply because "stupidity" encompasses so much more than "incompetence."

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