Misattribution

[StrangerInAStrangeLand]

Upon seeing or hearing my username, some people assume I got it from the christian bible & others assume I got it from Heinlein.
I made it up before I read either.

I sometimes say "like a cat on a hot tin roof" & some people assume I got it from Tennessee Williams.
I got it from relatives who were saying it before he was born.

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[Capracus]

Misattribution.

Doesn't that cause blindness?

 

[Dr_Toad]

Unless smudged glasses make you read it that way, which is what I did, and why I'm laughing my ass off right now.

 

[Capracus]

It could also cause smudged glasses.

 

[Dr_Toad]

What? I couldn't read that clearly. What are smurfed gasses?

 

[StrangerInAStrangeLand]

Upon seeing or hearing my username, some people assume I got it from the christian bible & others assume I got it from Heinlein.
I made it up before I read either.

I sometimes say "like a cat on a hot tin roof" & some people assume I got it from Tennessee Williams.
I got it from relatives who were saying it before he was born.

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Of course, that was long before I knew the term username.
I considered Stranger In A Strange Land & Alien In An Alien Land & 2 combinations of those. I preferred Alien In An Alien Land but decided that is too alien for the vast majority of humans.

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[Capracus]

What? I couldn't read that clearly. What are smurfed gasses?

No more blue pills for you.

 

[Dr_Toad]

What luck! I'm colorblind, so I'll just take all of them.

And check back in the morning, as usual. Yes, Doctor.

I might be drawn by white horses, or I might be riding a mighty dinosaur, depending upon what the pills are.

 

[gmilam]

I first heard the phrase "Stranger in a strange land" from the Leon Russell song.

 

[sideshowbob]

Upon seeing or hearing my username, some people assume I got it from the christian bible & others assume I got it from Heinlein.
I made it up before I read either.

I sometimes say "like a cat on a hot tin roof" & some people assume I got it from Tennessee Williams.
I got it from relatives who were saying it before he was born.

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When I have to guess where a phrase originated, I fall back on Shakespeare.

 

[RainbowSingularity]

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Of course, that was long before I knew the term username.
I considered Stranger In A Strange Land & Alien In An Alien Land & 2 combinations of those. I preferred Alien In An Alien Land but decided that is too alien for the vast majority of humans.

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of americans ?
or cultural bias intellectual bigotry of xenophobic social conditioning ?

 

[StrangerInAStrangeLand]

When I have to guess where a phrase originated, I fall back on Shakespeare.

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I cannot say how many but many of Shakespeare's sayings did not originate with him.

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[StrangerInAStrangeLand]

of americans ?
or cultural bias intellectual bigotry of xenophobic social conditioning ?

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Yes.

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[sideshowbob]

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I cannot say how many but many of Shakespeare's sayings did not originate with him.

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I was going to add that. He probably picked up a lot of them in the streets. He was just one of the first to write them down. The actual origins probably go back to some guy chasing a mammoth with a flint-tipped spear.