(In the end I did; I may have been the only one who didn't gloss it over. He didn't dock me any points, but I think he hadn't realized he said it.)
You made a valuable contribution to the historical record!
This conversation is beginning to remind me inversely of the time the breaking news of the Kennedy assassination was mistaken for a social experiment because Stanley Milgram was lecturing at the time. (I believe the reality to have been less on-the-nose than the version in Michael Almereyda's Experimenter (2015) where Milgram himself tries to deliver the news and is not believed, but I did make sure it had really, essentially, happened. [edit] Cf. Alan Rosin.)
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You made a valuable contribution to the historical record!
This conversation is beginning to remind me inversely of the time the breaking news of the Kennedy assassination was mistaken for a social experiment because Stanley Milgram was lecturing at the time. (I believe the reality to have been less on-the-nose than the version in Michael Almereyda's Experimenter (2015) where Milgram himself tries to deliver the news and is not believed, but I did make sure it had really, essentially, happened. [edit] Cf. Alan Rosin.)