[Scspamcop] Re: Spam with spamcop ref

[Mike Easter]

Ellen wrote:

> There is an old saying -- when you hear hoofbeats think horses not
> zebras (or some such similar thing -- someone will be along in a minute
> to correct me) ...

... nothing to correct, absolutely fine.

Its etymology was actually a medical diagnosis aphorism (zebras, odd
obscure diseases like fascinomas) tho't to be coined by Dr. Theodore
Woodward, prof at the U of MD med school.

Besides that nice little contribution to our language, he did a lot of
good work in typhus & typhoid and got a Nobel prize nomination for that
work 60 years ago.

But someone else won the prize that year.



-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin