From: fprimus <fprimus@...>
Date: 2006-09-25T09:43:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] Code to S-Exp (#95)

Hal Fulton wrote:

> 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.

I thought it came from:

  "If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, 
it's probably a duck." - Senator Joseph McCarthy, in a 1952 speech, 
suggesting a method for identifying communists and communist sympathizers.

Referenced at http://www.gantthead.com/content/articles/86476.cfm

Maybe there was an even earlier reference.

-flp

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