[FRIAM] George Phillip Tremblay IV

[Barry MacKichan]

My guess is that there must be something in George’s training that is 
close to exactly the same as this utterance. How would one go about 
confirming or disproving this hypothesis?

— Barry

On 18 Apr 2025, at 22:48, Nicholas Thompson wrote:

> The last time I checked in with this list it was starting to be 
> not-cool to
> gush over
> George, but every once in a while he produces an aphorism that makes 
> me
> laugh out loud, alone in my study:   He defined meteorological 
> euphemisms
> as "terms that describe what something would be if only it were the 
> thing
> it isn't."
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology
> Clark University
> nthompson at clarku.edu
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson

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