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tblue37

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15. Yep. It's like the "requirement" that any reference to the US must include the descriptor "great."

Reply to alcibiades_mystery (Reply #1)

Mon Dec 29, 2014, 01:27 PM

Dec 2014

While watching Hubert Humphrey's speech accepting the 1968 nomination from the Democratic Party (I am pretty sure that was the speech this occurred in, though it *might* have been another speech that year), I had to laugh when one of Humphrey's obligatory "great" references slipped offleash and traveled to another point in his speech, causing him to make an absurd reference to "this great hall"!

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