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From: dma@ssc-vax.UUCP (Dennis Anderson)
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Subject: Re: The Wrath of Sherlock Holmes
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Date: Fri, 20-Dec-85 12:37:07 EST
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> >In _Young Sherlock Holmes_, Holmes brings up that infamous Klingon
> >proverb, "Revenge is best served cold, Watson."  I laughed aloud in
> >the theater and got some strange looks.
> 
> Isn't this originally an Italian saying?  I seem to remember hearing it much
> earlier than ST II... (maybe I'm thinking of pasta, not revenge :-) ).
> 
>                         "Tourists -- have some fun with New york's
>                          hard-boiled cabbies.  When you get to your
>                          destination, say to your driver, "Pay?  I was
>                          hitchiking."
>                                                 -- David Letterman
> 
>                                         Moriarty, aka Jeff Meyer
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I don't know about it being Italian, but the saying did appear in
The Godfather.  At least in the book.  I don't remember it in the movie.