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From: Eva Lu <evalu@tor.soy>
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Subject: Re: broken schools
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 21:20:13 -0300
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Rich <rich@example.invalid> writes:

> Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:
>> D <nospam@example.net> writes:
>> 
>>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2025, Salvador Mirzo wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> Ketchup effect?  Wow.  I had never heard of that.  I get it.  The whole
>>>>>> thing comes down at once. :)
>>>>>
>>>>> Exactly!
>>>>
>>>> I'm gonna smile when I get an opportunity to use that expression. :)
>>>
>>> The latest expression I learned was "keeping up with the Joneses".
>> 
>> Why "Joneses"?
>
> Because that was the name of "the other family" from the 1910's comic 
> strip that created the idiom:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_joneses

Cool. :)