No questions today but I have to share this gem I ran across in _Brewer's Dictionary of Phase and Fable_ 2nd revised edition, 1981.
Hutber's Law--"Improvement means deterioration". A telling phrase coined by Patrick Hutber, City Editor of the _Sunday Telegraph_. It pin-pointed the growing tendency of officialdom to palm off reduced services of poorer quality as "new and improved".
Brewer's cross references to Parkinson's Law, with which I was already familiar, having read his book sometime in high school. The British were apparently at the time of this edition unaware of Murphy's Law.
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Hutber's Law
Date: 2024-06-10 09:28 pm (UTC)Hutber's Law--"Improvement means deterioration". A telling phrase coined by Patrick Hutber, City Editor of the _Sunday Telegraph_. It pin-pointed the growing tendency of officialdom to palm off reduced services of poorer quality as "new and improved".
Brewer's cross references to Parkinson's Law, with which I was already familiar, having read his book sometime in high school. The British were apparently at the time of this edition unaware of Murphy's Law.
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