LucyTheApe writes:
cd writes:
I may be wrong, but I will pay 200 GBP to AIDS research if you can find anywhere at EvC I have ever said that "mass increases with velocity"
If you promise to give $200 to the nearest high school maths teacher, I'll dig it out.
Lucy,you forgot one of the most important part of the quote which is:
cavediver writes:
I will pay 200 GBP to AIDS research if you can find anywhere at EvC I have ever said that "mass increases with velocity" without qualification of what I meant by "mass".
The end of the quote,as you will notice, changes greatly the sense of the phrase. While you could easily find what is described in the former quote, you couldn't find what is described in the latter quote. That's why what you just did is called QUOTE MINE lucytheape.