On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 23:03 -0700, George Toft wrote:
> The reference is to George Orwell's book, 1984, which was published in
> 1949 (and even documented a Communist nuclear missile attack against the
> United States in 1964 - not a bad prediction). He portrayed a society
> where the Government spied on you and had the Thought Police to ensure
> your every action was correct.
>
> I believe that book gave rise to the phrase "Big Brother."
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I think that we have some various mix of metaphors going on.
'Big Brother' indeed was from Orwell's 1984
"All your DATA are belong to us" is a takeoff on something else from
somewhere else...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us
Craig
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