>>>Ah, but now that Mike has said "The rest is history", it validates any future use of "The rest, as they say, is history" - or, at least, "The rest, as he says, is history".
>>
>>I think that for now it only validates the use of "The rest, as he said, is history"
>
>I was only trying to keep the tense consistent with the original cliché. But, basically, you're right.
You said "basically"! - the most useless word in the English language.
Either he's right or he's not.
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.