Re: [Phys-l] Inscrutable words

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@redshift.com>]

Not at all;  did the headline have the book's title, "Stumbling on 
Happiness" within quotes?

Googling the headline resulted in nada, while removing the quote mark at 
the beginning and placing one just before the S resulted in ~ 300.  
Incidentally he won 1k pounds.


http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/bookslanding.asp?id=6317


bc, if not thinks the headline writer is a clown.


Laurent Hodges wrote:

> Does a phrase ever pass into your brain in such a way that it seems totally,
> weirdly inscrutable?  Then you catch on and feel foolish?  Ponder this verbal
> illusion:
>
> "Daniel Gilbert receives Royal Society Prize for Stumbling On Happiness"
>
> Well, in my defense, my brain thought it seemed like a rather specialized prize,
> but accepted it as a typical example of English eccentricity.
>
> Laurent Hodges
>
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