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RE: Triumph and Beatles (Scream!!)

To: R John Lye <rjl6n@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu>, Tom Gentry <TGENTR@wgc.woodward.com>, "'triumphs'" <triumphs@triumph.cs.utah.edu>
Subject: RE: Triumph and Beatles (Scream!!)
From: lupienj@wal.hp.com (John Lupien)
Date: Fri, 3 Nov 95 13:29:47 EST
> On Nov 3, 12:05pm, Tom Gentry wrote:
> > Wasn't it Peter Max that said everyone deserves 15 seconds of fame?
> > I think you're still owed 5 seconds! ;^)
> I believe that's a paraphrase of something that Andy Warhol
> said, but I'm not sure.
> John Lye

Yeah, it was Warhol, but back then it was 15 minutes.
Nowadays, having done the calculation, in order for each
US resident to get a fair crack at fame in their lifetimes,
I'm afraid that 9.7867 seconds is all you can hope for.


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