>>>>>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".
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>>>>I think that for now it only validates the use of "The rest, as he said, is history"
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>>>I was only trying to keep the tense consistent with the original cliché. But, basically, you're right.
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>>You said "basically"! - the most useless word in the English language.
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>>Either he's right or he's not.
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>It was deliberate. You missed my earlier post to him after he used the word 'basically' in a post to you in which I told him I hated people who used the word 'basically'.

Ah, ego te absolvo. :-)