--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "jim_flanegin" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Cliff" > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Great minds think for themselves, not "alike", in my > > > > > experience. > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter > > > > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- authfriend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > > > > > > > I was wondering the same *exact* thing myself. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Great minds think alike! ;-) > > > > > > > > > > > We just run in the same channels. > > > > > > Makes for instresting crop circles. > > > > > > > > It's from a famous saying that I can't remember the author(s) > > > > of: great minds run in the same channels; fools think alike. > > > > > > The term "great mind" as applied to human beings is an > > > impossibility, in that the closer a mind approaches greatness, > > > the clearer it becomes, until upon achieving true greatness, it > > > disappears. > > > > So much for making jokes based on partially quoting famous > > sayings... > > Sorry, I didn't mean to quash your rhythm, I just never cared for > the expression 'great mind'...
Just for the record, the saying--at least in its popular version--is, "Great minds run on the same track," and it's typically invoked when two people come up with the same thought at the same time independently of each other. Also typically, nobody is suggesting by invoking the saying that either or both of the two people have "great minds" (or that they think alike, for that matter). It's, you know, jocular: "Great minds run on the same track, heh heh heh." It's usually spoken by the first person to have had the thought in response to the second person's voicing the same thought. (Another similar saying, often invoked under similar circumstances, is, "Two minds with but a single thought." But as it happens, that's from a love poem, the next line of which is, "Two hearts that beat as one." That wouldn't have been the ticket here.) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
