Sunday, August 3, 2014

One Hundred Years Ago Today: "The lamps are going out all over Europe....

...We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime"
-Edward, Viscount Grey
British Foreign Secretary
 August 3, 1914
Smart guy. 

'The lamps are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lit again in our lifetime' Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey, August 3, 1914

Daily Mail

On a much less somber note: a couple years ago FT Alphaville took one of our Headline of the Day awards with:
The rights are going out all over Europe 
Sort of a cockney rhyming slang thing without the hemiteleia, lamps become lights which rhymes with rights which...
Ah hell, let's just give 'em the award....