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(Incidentally, Chatterbox should confess here that in an earlier item, he said Ellis told Diaz that "some of the scientists" Diaz cited had economic ties to Metabolife competitors; on closer inspection of the raw transcript, Chatterbox now realizes that Ellis made that accusation only about Heymsfield . Metabolife's repetition of the reference to Heymsfield's Slim-Fast link, in notes interspersed throughout the manuscript, tricked Chatterbox into thinking, mistakenly, that there was more than one Metabolife critic who was receiving payment from a Metabolife rival.)
Re Timothy Noah's "Chatterbox" item "William Jefferson Clinton": Joel Achenbach explained the three name serial killer phenomenon in a column included in his book Why Things Are . Newspapers use all three names for such people to minimize the number of people with similar names mistakenly thought by distant cousins, high-school sweethearts, and potential employers to be murderers (and to minimize possible lawsuits from the John Kennedy Gacys and Karla Onderdunk Tuckers of the world).
All agree that the Republican leadership was suckered into supporting it by high-pressure lobbying and poll results, mistakenly believing that this was the way to win Hispanic voters.
To be sure, there is nothing to justify the assumption that the names of the numbers emerged in numerical order from the primeval ooze of language; but one might mistakenly conclude that the very first ordinal to be talked about in English was eightieth , and this at a time when only a small percentage of the population had a life expectancy of half that.
He was also not entirely familiar with English money and mistakenly paid her fifteen guineas, thus leaving Lady Coventry smiling at her unexpected gain of a further fifteen scheling (or was it shelin, seling, or even chelin?).
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