From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-09-25T05:56:21+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Code to S-Exp (#95)

Hal Fulton wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>>
>> Speaking of duck typing, the first time I heard the phrase "walks like 
>> a duck, quacks like a duck ..." was way back when the leader of the 
>> Republican party in the Senate was a man named Everett Dirksen. At one 
>> point there was a debate about whether something was or was not a tax, 
>> and my recollection is that Dirksen used the duck phrase to claim that 
>> it was, in fact, a tax.
>>
> 
> The first time I heard the phrase was in 1980 or '81 when my friend
> Jamie used it to me. I *think* that was long after Dirksen's time,
> but I'm not much on history.
> 
> 
> Hal
> 
> 
Well, it turns out Dirksen most likely got it from Richard Cardinal 
Cushing -- no telling where Cushing got it from:

http://www.bartleby.com/73/1278.html