Good luck, Mr. Gorsky: Difference between revisions

{{a|g|}}''From the too good to be true,<ref>A correspondent — and I get few enough of those, so it is a red-letter day —has asked me to clarify that “to good to be true” means, in fact, “false”. The [[JC]] is glad to be able to set the record straight.</ref>  but too good not to pass on dept. Also in the JC’s collection of [[amusing but apocryphal stories about space flight]]''.<ref>Again, and [[for the avoidance of doubt]], and to benefit those readers — and Lord knows, we get few enough of them, so we try to accommodate them as best we can — from whom no amount of certainty can be too much, we would like to be clear that “apocryphal” means, more or less exactly, “false”. “Made up”. “A pork pie”. “A whopper”.</ref>