>>has said cannot be treated as lies, right? I am not sure who you are
>>referred to, but the wording of "lies" or "d***d lies" are rather impolite!
>>
>It's a figure of speech from a long time back and I don't think that the
>word "lies"should be taken too seriously.
>
>I think that it was Disraeli or someone from that era who described
>statistics so.
I believe Bartlett's attributes this to Mark Twain.
: Jan Steinman <mailto:jans@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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