[gui-talk] Origins/joke (a thought digression on Re: One number toring them all)

[Sherri]

That's fascinating. It sounded somewhat familiar to me as well. Thanks Joel 
for passing this along.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 2:14 PM
Subject: [gui-talk] Origins/joke (a thought digression on Re: One number 
toring them all)


> since this subject line first appeared on the list, over a David Pogue 
> Times
> column I somehow never read before, I've been wracking my brain to think 
> why
> something about its wording sounded so eerily familiar. Vaguely, I 
> wondered
> if it might be a reworded echo of a line from Shakespeare, maybe something
> the witches chant over their boiling cauldron during their famous scene in
> Macbeth? Or? Or what? I couldn't get to it in my memory.
>
> I googled, and it took a couple of tries and seeing a lot of hits having 
> to
> do with this phone service plus a few other mostly tecchie things like 
> "one
> Wiki to rule them all" before I came upon a result that was a direct
> reference to J.R.R. Tolkein's Lord of the Rings, in which the ring Frodo 
> is
> in search of is described as "one ring to rule them all," fashioned by the
> dark lord Mordor.
>
> Well, forty years. No wonder the memory was foggy, and so the allusion
> didn't hit me right away. I read one or two of the Tolkein books more than
> that long ago, and if time hadn't diluted my memory a bit, the kind of
> self-medication many of us were using at the time would have helped. As
> Frank Zappa used to say in an anti-drug commercial, "why do you think they
> call it dope?"
>
> Ah, dear little Frodo. Wish I could have seen the nice movie they made of 
> it
> in New Zealand  a few years ago. Seen, I mean, not listened to. But so it
> goes. One ring to rule them all. Yes. of course. That's the ticket.
> Joel
>
>
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