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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jun 24, 2019 15:18:48 GMT -5
I like tacos.
Mike
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Post by millring on Jun 24, 2019 15:21:41 GMT -5
I am an English Private. The Majors outrank me, but have commensurate responsibility that I need not bear. It all works out in the end.
Just to blow my mind, I use google translator to see what "English Major" is in various other languages.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jun 24, 2019 15:32:43 GMT -5
I am an English Private. The Majors outrank me, but have commensurate responsibility that I need not bear. It all works out in the end. Just to blow my mind, I use google translator to see what "English Major" is in various other languages. See, you have your dissertation right there. All you need to put in now is a little class time, and you're an English Ph.D., the equivalent of a flag officer.
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Post by dradtke on Jun 24, 2019 15:37:48 GMT -5
Engelse hoofvak. İngilis dili böyük. lus Askiv loj. mòr-Bheurla. Ingiriisiga waaweyn.
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Post by aquaduct on Jun 24, 2019 15:56:21 GMT -5
Engelse hoofvak. İngilis dili böyük. lus Askiv loj. mòr-Bheurla. Ingiriisiga waaweyn.
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Post by AlanC on Jun 24, 2019 16:20:48 GMT -5
Back to the topic at hand. For those with Amazon accounts one can purchase everything AB wrote for the staggering sum of $2.
I will read a few of his stories in between various other books. His life was rather amazing.
AB mentioned Mayne Reid so I checked him out and bought his collected works at another ridiculous price. He was another very interesting guy.
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Post by david on Jun 24, 2019 16:47:56 GMT -5
Happy birthday to the great journalist, poet and short-story writer Ambrose Bierce, one of my literary heroes for many reasons, one of which is his plain-spoken narrative style, which I guess I would call Authentic American. Coincidentally, he lived in a house on D.C.'s Logan Circle just six doors from mine. americanliterature.com/author/ambrose-bierceI just punched his name into my local library access and came up with a book,"Can Such Things Be?" Apparently a collection of "25 tales of the supernatural and the unexplained." Do I have the right guy?
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Post by millring on Jun 24, 2019 17:23:27 GMT -5
: One who carries the flagon.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jun 24, 2019 17:36:56 GMT -5
Happy birthday to the great journalist, poet and short-story writer Ambrose Bierce, one of my literary heroes for many reasons, one of which is his plain-spoken narrative style, which I guess I would call Authentic American. Coincidentally, he lived in a house on D.C.'s Logan Circle just six doors from mine. americanliterature.com/author/ambrose-bierceI just punched his name into my local library access and came up with a book,"Can Such Things Be?" Apparently a collection of "25 tales of the supernatural and the unexplained." Do I have the right guy? Yes, he had a big interest in the supernatural and spooky things in general, to the extent that he's been compared to Edgar Allan Poe. I think Bierce got his fill of real horror while serving as a federal officer in the Civil War, an experience he has written about.
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Post by sidheguitarmichael on Jun 24, 2019 17:41:19 GMT -5
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Jun 24, 2019 18:14:08 GMT -5
I am an English Private. The Majors outrank me, but have commensurate responsibility that I need not bear. It all works out in the end. Just to blow my mind, I use google translator to see what "English Major" is in various other languages. See, you have your dissertation right there. All you need to put in now is a little class time, and you're an English Ph.D., the equivalent of a flag officer flag football player. Corrected.
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Post by drlj on Jun 24, 2019 18:23:30 GMT -5
I am an English Private. The Majors outrank me, but have commensurate responsibility that I need not bear. It all works out in the end. You does put words together right good. You may be a sergeant.
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Post by Chesapeake on Jun 24, 2019 19:34:39 GMT -5
Hitler was a German corporal. (I know, a little early for this, but I was afraid this thread wouldn't last much beyond p. 2.)
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Post by Rob Hanesworth on Jun 24, 2019 19:46:05 GMT -5
Hitler was a German corporal. (I know, a little early for this, but I was afraid this thread wouldn't last much beyond p. 2.) And, if Alois Schicklgruber (Adolf's father) had not changed his name on 7 January 1877 to "Hitler", the course of history might have been greatly altered. Would people have rallied to the chant: Heil Schicklgruber!
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Post by billhammond on Jun 24, 2019 19:56:11 GMT -5
Hitler was a German corporal. (I know, a little early for this, but I was afraid this thread wouldn't last much beyond p. 2.) And, if Alois Schicklgruber (Adolf's father) had not changed his name on 7 January 1877 to "Hitler", the course of history might have been greatly altered. Would people have rallied to the chant: Heil Schicklgruber!Terrible headline name -- eats up all the space! That's why the press called Eisenhower Ike and Lyndon Johnson LBJ, and Kennedy JFK, etc., etc.
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Post by millring on Jun 24, 2019 20:31:16 GMT -5
Thanks, BH!
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Post by Chesapeake on Jun 25, 2019 9:25:07 GMT -5
Just a thought: if he'd changed his name to Hoo Hah, it wouldn't have done the movement any good either.
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