Remembering an “effervescently affable man”: Kurt Vonnegut at 100

Re:Remembering an “effervescently affable man”: Kurt Vonnegu... by vzaliva on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:36PM (#33542246)

The article starts "Kurt Vonnegut, who was born 100 years ago this month". Today is November 9 and according to Wikipedia Kurt Vonnegut was born on November 11, 1922.

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Re:Remembering an “effervescently affable man”: Kurt Vonnegu... by 333c on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @11:39PM (#33542284)

so the article is correct?

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Re:Remembering an “effervescently affable man”: Kurt Vonnegu... by samplatt on Thursday November 10, 2022 @12:29AM (#33542620)

Man, reading comprehension is a funny old bugger. You can be intelligent and literate and educated and genuinely whip-smart and Muphry's Law will still fuck you the second you look away.

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Re:Remembering an “effervescently affable man”: Kurt Vonnegu... by smcameron on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:02AM (#33543173)

> Muphry's Law

I'm going to assume that was an intentional misspelling to prove the point.

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Re:Remembering an “effervescently affable man”: Kurt Vonnegu... by yesenadam on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:15AM (#33544030)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

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Re:Remembering an “effervescently affable man”: Kurt Vonnegu... by bigbluedots on Thursday November 10, 2022 @03:44AM (#33543836)

Decent tyop there

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Re:Remembering an “effervescently affable man”: Kurt Vonnegu... by samplatt on Sunday November 13, 2022 @09:02PM (#33589474)

Muphry's Law is a thing :-) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law

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Re:Remembering an “effervescently affable man”: Kurt Vonnegu... by krueger71 on Thursday November 10, 2022 @02:45AM (#33543461)

Incidentally Vonnegut shares his birthday with Dostoevsky who was born 201 years ago.

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