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Down $42,000 since the “Fortune Favours the Brave” commercial - which is famously something Pliny said before setting sail for Vesuvius as it was erupting, and
by synu 4y ago
Down $42,000 since the “Fortune Favours the Brave” commercial - which is famously something Pliny said before setting sail for Vesuvius as it was erupting, and then dying.
- uejfiweun 4y ago“History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes” – Mark Twain
- lrvick 4y agoThe earliest match for this popular quotation appeared in an essay by Theodor Reik in 1965. Currently, he is the leading candidate for coiner of the saying. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/
- uejfiweun 4y agoAh, interesting. I just did a cursory Google search for the author of the quote and it said Mark Twain. Guess someone should file a bug for their knowledge graph team.
- hyperjeff 4y agoA cursory search might even give one the impression that Einstein had an opinion about bees. (Unkillable memes are pretty interesting.)
- robonerd 4y agoMeh. A lot of people have said that, some before disaster and some before victory. It was already an old saying when Pliny the Elder said it. Wellington made it his motto, and he beat Napoleon.
- synu 4y agoAt the risk of explaining a joke, the idea was not that it’s something that’s only ever been said before failure, but that it’s a quite funny thing to say just before one.
- robonerd 4y agoAt the risk of explaining my objection; it's not about the joke but about the premise of history rhyming generally being an artifact of overzealous pattern matching and the implicit exclusion of cases that don't match the target pattern.
- synu 4y agoYour objection to the joke has been duly noted in the appropriate system of record. Beep boop.