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Very fun poem! But do you know who Phong Ngo is? I'm having much trouble finding on the Web any other works attributed to such an author.
by seabass-labrax 3y ago
Very fun poem! But do you know who Phong Ngo is? I'm having much trouble finding on the Web any other works attributed to such an author.
- kazinator 3y agoI found two posts of this poem to Usenet, dated 1998, one of them claiming that the author is unknown. Thus it wasn't written in 1999, making the entire Phong Ngo copyright claim inauthentic. It looks like it appears in the fortune program's database. Search for the word committee in the following file: https://github.com/shlomif/fortune-mod/blob/master/fortune-mod/datfiles/songs-poems https://github.com/shlomif/fortune-mod/blob/master/fortune-m... It is attributed to Leslie Lipson, possibly this one, a political scientist who died in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lipson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lipson That attribution seems credible. I also found an old file of quotes (evidently from the alt.quotations newsgroup) where it is also attributed to Lipson, and additionally a "Michael J. Irvin <IRVINMJ@WSUVM1>" is credited as having submitted it. It could be because of Irvin that it ended up in the fortune program. ftp://ftp.cs.brown.edu/pub/alt.quotations/Archive/c.txt