Sunday, 16 August 2015

Unrepeatable



Provided you allow for translation, equivalence and such, there are few phrases that have only ever been said once. Most people assume that such phrases involve putting disjointed items into one sentence, like “Put the carrot in the devil” (said twenty five times) or “My hovercraft is full of jelly snakes” (four times).

In fact, there have been just three totally unique phrases in history, so far.

One of them is so obscene that it wiped out the Roibak tribe (eventually).

The second involved a uniquely named person and a uniquely named horse.

And the other one started history itself.

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