Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul S Person Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: [OT] Murder in New York Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 08:43:42 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <03oolj12e3k7p5me60gmg2ml1l5hvij1ev@4ax.com> <0a4374a61bf64d330cc5f2b6b6fcd2cd@www.novabbs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:43:47 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="efbbc98c66e292fad444c5d56e4573b6"; logging-data="2506441"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+gvH+3Xi0mQx0KboUKj4j0OGTocJMQPQU=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:sfW2+Hxt178Zzz+FVv5bYIi4++Y= Bytes: 2716 On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 03:50:38 +0000, quadibloc wrote: >On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 19:00:14 +0000, William Hyde wrote: > >> Paul S Person wrote: >>> On Sat, 14 Dec 2024 20:32:17 +1300, Titus G Trump >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 14/12/24 05:30, Paul S Person wrote: > >>>>> [1] This is a common trope, whether by Pres Truman ("The buck stops >>>>> here", pointing to his desk or perhaps the Oval Office) to Star = Trek >>>>> VI, where Kirk agrees that, as Captain, he is responsible for what >>>>> happened. So why does the buck /not/ stop at the top dog in these >>>>> cases? >>>> >>>> Perhaps because one is fiction with a message and the other is = reality? >>> >>> Truman isn't fiction. >> >> We could start a Harry Truman denialism movement. When FDR died (if >> indeed he did!), Eleanor hired an actor to play Truman while she ran = the >> country until 1952 before ceding power to FDR's illegitimate son. > >The only thing fictional about Harry "S" Truman was his middle initial. > >But, on the other hand, the television show Star Trek was fiction, and I >think >that was what was being referred to. Actually, it was /Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country/, a movie. --=20 "Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino, Who evil spoke of everyone but God, Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"