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You know Spock, if an Earth girl says ‘it’s me, not you’, it’s definitely you. :)
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-H. W. Lenstra, Jr., AMS-MAA Invited Talk, 2002 Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA, Jan. 8, 2002.
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(I've posted this before)
"Listen. Strange women, lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not some farcical aquatic ceremony. "(MP et.al.)
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"I drank what?" - Socrates, 399 BC (apocryphal)
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"These violent delights have violent ends." (Romeo and Juliet)
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"These violent delights have violent ends." (Romeo and Juliet)
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"There is something inhuman and vaguely pornographic about statistics.... Pornography, on the other hand, with its loosely bound sequences of storyless couplings (or triplings) often has the feel of a statistical survey.''
-- John Allen Paulos
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In awe, I watched the waxing moon ride across the zenith of the heavens like an ambered chariot towards the ebony void of infinite space wherein the tethered belts of Jupiter and Mars hang, forever festooned in their orbital majesty. And as I looked at all this I thought I must put a roof on this toilet.
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(it took less than three minutes to deliver):
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
― Oscar Wilde
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“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
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Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
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Straight to the point!
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Don't believe everything you read on the internet.
Oscar Wilde
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Being still and doing nothing are two very different things :)
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I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines.
--George Dyson (Darwin Among the Machines)
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"One more drink and I'd have been under the host." Dorothy Parker |
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I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse."
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One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.
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Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart... Enjoy life with your wife, whom you love, all the days of this... life that God has given you. For this is your lot in life.
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Clean shirt, new shoes
And I don't know where I am goin' to
Silk suit, black tie,
I don't need a reason why
They come runnin' just as fast as they can
'Cause every girl crazy 'bout a sharp dressed man
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"After all, tomorrow is another day!"
Gone With the Wind, 1939
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Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars;
Brighter art thou than flaming Jupiter
When he appear’d to hapless Semele:
More lovely than the monarch of the sky
In wanton Arethusa’s azured arms:
And none but thou shalt be my paramour.
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"The Earle of Oxford, making his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. Upon his return home, the Queen greeted him, reportedly saying "My Lord, I had forgot the Fart."
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When I die I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandad not screaming like the passengers on his bus.
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When I die I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandad not screaming like the passengers on his bus.
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"Know your enemy and know yourself and you will always be victorious."
Sun-tzu
You should always keep the person, who always criticizes you, near you.
Since his/her job is to criticize you, they will point out every minute flaws inside you.
This way, you can improve yourself and you become more clean and pure, than you would with soap and water.
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Shit happens.
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Interviewer: "Why do you rob banks?"
Willie Sutton: "Because that is where they keep the money." |
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"My idea of a gentleman is someone who gets out of the bath to have a [expletive deleted]."
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When I die I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandad not screaming like the passengers on his bus.
Bob Monkhouse
That is number one together with his "You're not laughing now joke" that Farage stole for the EU meeting post the Brexit vote. |
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When I die I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandad not screaming like the passengers on his bus.
Bob Monkhouse
That is number one together with his "You're not laughing now joke" that Farage stole for the EU meeting post the Brexit vote.
And I guess Farage is "not laughing now", that I see the UKIP is losing its last MP.
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Winning when you gamble only creates a loser.
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"I figured one of you guys kept an ASCII table lying around. And I was right. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you super-nerd Beth Johanssen, who also had copies of 'Zork II' and 'Leather Goddesses of Phobos' on her personal laptop. Seriously, Johanssen... it's like the Smithsonian of Loneliness on there."
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"Do you like Kipling?"
"I don't know. I have never kippled."
Donald McGill
It's Kipling," I said. "Don't be crazy. I never kippled so don't tell me he did. He can hardly do it missionary.
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Here is a copy of the original post card
https://bound4escape.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/9-16-2013-10-32-47-am.png
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Here is a copy of the original post card
https://bound4escape.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/9-16-2013-10-32-47-am.png
I believe it was the subject of an obscenity trial in the 1950s.
It appears that the root of this play on words is much older and from 1907 with a few more examples that predate the post card.
Still, very interesting that many of his post cards were banned in 1950s UK.
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McGill was by accounts a rather well educated and straight laced person. A bit like me. He lived a couple of miles from here too. Most of the jests are not original but where he got them back in the day I can only surmise.
Some of his postcards http://saucyseasidepostcards.com/product/24-x-mixed-postcards/ were the subject of the obscenity trial in 1954.
Philip Larkin observed that "sexual intercourse began in 1963" and by the mid 60s when I was a child McGill postcards were a much loved British seaside tradition. They are still widely available. Unfortunately for McGill and his family he didn't retain the copyright in the images and others have reaped the benefit of his genius. |
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"Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind.... or forgotten." |
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"The four most beautiful words in our language; 'I told you so.'"
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"Red sky at night, shepherds' delight. Blue sky at night, day."
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...Red sky in the morning: shepherd's hut on fire ;). |
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"Caught in the middle
Carol we're middle class
We're middle aged
We were wild in the old days...
Nothing lasts for long
Nothing lasts for long"
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There is ALWAYS light at the end of the tunnel.
Might be just a bloody long tunnel is all.
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There is ALWAYS light at the end of the tunnel.
Might be just a bloody long tunnel is all.
Greg Parker
Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel
Is just a freight train coming your way
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“If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you.”
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"We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
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"Whilst travelling through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. Had to live on food and water for several days."
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"We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
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"We’ve all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
Robert Wilensky
Excellent!
There used to be a simulator trying to tackle this very question, but it has unfortunately been offline for some time now. Perhaps someone wants to setup a BOINC project? :P
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Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.
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"I am just going outside. I may be some time."
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"Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful." N.M. |
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"We came to fight, not to surrender."
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"Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to somebody else."
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Dummheit
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"Bugger."
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Dummheit
Going to try to work this into casual conversation today.
I am noted for saying it. I recently looked at my thesis for the first time in more than 30 years when I was at my mother's house. The front page contained the very words.
My father used, apropos Dave, used to tell of the time he was walking down Alberrt Rd Devonport which was and is somewhat rougher than Cheyne Walk London to hear a woman scold a man with the words "Don't 'ee say 'bugger' in front of the C. H. I. L. D." |
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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
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"When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute — and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity."
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"The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!"
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"The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!"
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
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"The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees, is the high road that leads him to England!"
Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson
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You are welcome. Standing up against the English and Scots since 1497. |
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"Compaq buying DEC is like Mattel buying Hughes Aerospace."
-a friend of mine, about 20 years ago
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"Compaq buying DEC is like Mattel buying Hughes Aerospace."
-a friend of mine, about 20 years ago
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"Money can't buy you love but it does improve your bargaining position."
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"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
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:D love that film. It's one of those things that is 'eternally happening' even now, like Ferris Bueller. |
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Certainty of death...
small chance of success...
what are we waiting for?
Lord of Rings -Return of King
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― Nadeem Aslam
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"Covfefe"
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Anger leads to HATE.
Hate leads to COVFEFE.
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On the subject of talking complete & utter bollox:
"brisket"
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First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
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Somewhere there's a harbour
Though we pass her by
Where our ship can be and safely lie
In the warmth of her arms
Inside a perfect day
And with each passing moment
We wait to sail away.
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Parishioners are reminded that the box marked "For The Sick" is intended for monetary contributions only. |
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Any one wishing to join the Young Mothers Group is invited to see the Vicar in the Vestry after the service. |
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Vote Early. Vote Often. |
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The Parish Theatre Group are delighted to announce that their own leading lady, Miss Belle Elmore, will be marrying her stage and real life beau Mr Eric Le Neve in the church on Saturday 12 July at 11am. That means that the Matinee show on 12 July has been cancelled. Miss Elmore and Mr Le Neve are looking forward to the usual performance on the night of 12 July. |
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The Curate will give the sermon on Sunday. This is part of our series exploring the nature of Hell. As a bonus come before the service and listen to the choir practice! |
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Marriage is a punishment for shoplifting in some countries.
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The Curate will give the sermon on Sunday. This is part of our series exploring the nature of Hell. As a bonus come before the service and listen to the choir practice!
I took a "joke" test years ago on which one of the questions was, "Explain the nature of reality. Give arguments both for and against your position". Other questions asked about being able to assemble an assault rifle, and also performing a flute and drum concerto.
I hope I still have a copy. It was hilarious.
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"Those who are destined to be hanged are not going to drown"
(quoted by Vladimir Putin, but he's probably not the first one... Russian proverb)
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When I am sad and weary,
When I think all hope is gone,
When I walk down High Holborn
I think of you with nothing on.
Celia, Celia by Adrian Mitchell |
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Remember that age and treachery will always triumph over youth and ability.
"David Brent" |
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One of the gentlemen here at work is retiring today. He'd sent this out and I thought it was worthy of sharing.
The Mayonnaise jar and 2 Cups of Coffee
When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.
A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. The agreed that it was.
The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and pored them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.
The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous “yes”.
The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.
“Now,’ said the professor as the laughter subsided. “I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the important things – God, your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions – and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.
The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house, and your car.
The sand is everything else – the small stuff. “If you put the sand into the jar first” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.
“Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Spend time with your parents. Visit with grandparents. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18 holes of golf. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first – the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand.
One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled and said, “I’m glad you asked”.
The coffee just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there’s always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend.
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Nice one, RR! |
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I suspect RR doesn't miss an opportunity to talk about golf... |
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Take time to get medical checkups.
But you live in America - that'll bankrupt you!
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One of the greatest comedians, in my opinion, was Eric Morecambe. He and his straight man, Ernie Wise were once asked what they would have done if they had not become comedians.
Eric Morecamble replied "Be Mike and Bernie Winters."
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"When I was a boy I was told anyone could become President. I'm beginning to believe it."
Clarence Darrow |
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"Love me 'do."
John Lennon on seeing his first moptop haircut in the barber's mirror. |
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"You offer a sincere compliment on a great moustache and suddenly she is not your friend."
Marty Feldman |
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"Pick the bones out of that one."
Van Zimmermann's recent and magnificent discovery reminds me of a story Dave Brown, one of my old chemistry tutors, once told. Dave was a humourist and it got him into trouble on at least one occasion.
He was lecturing on DNA on another occasion. Dave explained that DNA had first been isolated by Friedrich Miescher from pus soaked bandages from the Crimean War. This is generally regarded as true.
Dave asserted that Miescher on occasion would return to his lab with an armful of bandages and say to his assistant "...entfernen Sie die Knochen von diesem..." "Pick the bones out of that one."
To this day I don't know if Dave just made that up as jest or if it was true.
I know two things however.
First to be caught out questioning an unlikely but in fact true story or accepting a likely but untrue story (don't even get me started on likely and true) back in those days exposed one to the risk of significant humiliation.
And secondly in at least British English "Pick the bones out of that one" could easily be Van Zimmermann's opening gambit among prime hunters. |
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Do you ever get that when you're half way through eating a horse and you think to yourself, 'I'm not as hungry as I thought I was'
Tim Vine |
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The first time I met my wife I knew she was a keeper. She was wearing massive gloves.
Alun Cochrane |
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This white top writeth myne olde yeris;
Myn herte is mowled also as myne heris —
But if I fare as dooth an open-ers.
That ilke fruyt is ever lenger the wers,
Til it be roten in mullok or in stree.
We olde men, I drede, so fare we:
Til we be roten, kan we nat be rype;
The Prologe of the Reve's Tale by Chaucer
I thought of it as Erin and I with our white hair today pretty much followed Chaucer's footsteps by travelling from South London through Kent not far from the Pilgrims' Way down which the Reeve would have travelled and then bought some medlar fruit which the Reve calls open-ers. That is not translatable into polite modern English but is not the least impolite of the nicknames given to it. Shakespeare makes a number of puns on the name.
I do love them but they are not easy to find these days.
They are like small apples but the end where the flower was is much wider than in an apple; hence the open-ers. When picked the fruit is white inside again hence Chaucer's but totally inedible. They are allowed to rot and the flesh turns brown, soft and very sweet. Back in the old days it was about the only fruit which would have been available in the winter. |
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They are allowed to rot and the flesh turns brown, soft and very sweet. Back in the old days it was about the only fruit which would have been available in the winter.
And have you tried Durian? |
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They are allowed to rot and the flesh turns brown, soft and very sweet. Back in the old days it was about the only fruit which would have been available in the winter.
And have you tried Durian?
I have and I must say I enjoy it. Not ideal to eat on the train tho'.
Unlike a durian a medlar looks rotten but smells and tastes sweet. Also they don't grow them on the North Downs. |
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I had Durian in Singapore. It was fresh and tasted kinda sweet. But the smell was a rotten smell. To me it smells like the the chemical they put in natural gas so your nose can detect it. |
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Some an army of horsemen, some an army on foot
And some say a fleet of ships is the loveliest sight on this dark earth
But I say it is whatever you desire
And it is perfectly possible to make this clear to all
For Helen, the woman who by far surpassed all others in her beauty,
Left her husband
The best of men behind
And sailed far away to Troy
She did not spare a single thought for her child
Nor for her dear parents
But the goddess of love led her astray
To desire
Sappho |
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Some an army of horsemen, some an army on foot
And some say a fleet of ships is the loveliest sight on this dark earth
But I say it is whatever you desire
And it is perfectly possible to make this clear to all
For Helen, the woman who by far surpassed all others in her beauty,
Left her husband
The best of men behind
And sailed far away to Troy
She did not spare a single thought for her child
Nor for her dear parents
But the goddess of love led her astray
To desire
Sappho
You keep amazing me, Your Lordship. Quoting Sappho!
According to recent studies, the poem is probably a bit longer and goes on something like this:
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this makes me think of Anaktoria, who left us.
I'd rather see her elegant gait
and the light in her eyes
than the Lydian chariots and the men under arms.
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You keep amazing me, Your Lordship. Quoting Sappho!
According to recent studies, the poem is probably a bit longer and goes on something like this:
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this makes me think of Anaktoria, who left us.
I'd rather see her elegant gait
and the light in her eyes
than the Lydian chariots and the men under arms.
You and Erin. She is forever saying "I can't believe you just..." But then she has a strange way of starting a conversation; "You haven't listened to a <expletive deleted> word I've said for the last 5 minutes."
I wasn't aware of the newly found lines. I know I took liberties in the way I set it out but I do rather like the old ending. That might be familiarity or the way it suddenly stops a bit like the way the Odyssey suddenly starts.
Like most people I have areas of unexpected knowledge and in my case very much larger ones of ignorance. Erin and I were brought up on Shakespeare, the King James Bible and The Book of Common Prayer and without thinking of it will quote to each other. She has a tendency to spout the doggerel of Kipling and has a blind spot for the wonders of Marlowe (although she did agree to our children's names having Marlowe references.) |
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Like most people I have areas of unexpected knowledge
Included but not limited to the out house. |
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Like most people I have areas of unexpected knowledge
Included but not limited to the out house.
My father who sometimes didn't let truth get in the way of a good story asserted that there was a 40/50s movie set out in the central US about the US army training. The artillery ranged a mortar on a derelict building. It was an outhouse. They cut to grampa struggling out with his dungarees around his knees saying "Gee ma. It musta bin somethin I et."
I almost don't believe that story but I have it on good authority that in WW2 US forces intended to blow up with artillery an old barn. The old barn was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapel_of_St_Peter-on-the-Wall |
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Was browsing around and found an article about London's plan to combat the rising sea level. They were going to use gates to block the Thames. Makes one wonder just how long the gates will hold. |
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Was browsing around and found an article about London's plan to combat the rising sea level. They were going to use gates to block the Thames. Makes one wonder just how long the gates will hold.
I shall have to be careful how I type this but ask King Cnut. (By way of aside he was misunderstood rather than misspelled; his point was to attempt to show that he was not all powerful.)
We have had a barrier across the Thames for more than 30 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Barrier. In the first 5 years it was used 3 times. In the last 5 years 59 times.
By way of further aside the rising sea levels hereabouts are not mainly due to ice cap melting. The last ice age ended pretty much in my garden. Gary saw that when he was over. Our soil is clay which is debris from the nose of glaciers. We took the dog out for walk and the soil was chalk where the glaciers did not reach. Following the melting of the glaciers the tectonic plate in the north is rising since the weight of the ice is gone but that means in the south the plate is sinking hence the apparent rise in sea level here. |
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L'enfer c'est les autres.
Sartre |
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L'enfer c'est les autres.
Sartre
Mais oui, bien sûr!
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There's someone in our head but it's not us. |
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L'enfer c'est les autres.
Sartre
Mais oui, bien sûr!
Eh bien, continuons... |
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Who would true valour see,
Let him come hither;
One here will constant be,
Come wind, come weather
There’s no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a vermin. |
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Who would true valour see,
Let him come hither;
One here will constant be,
Come wind, come weather
There’s no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a vermin.
Hobgoblin, nor foul Fiend,
Can daunt his Spirit:
He knows, he at the end,
Shall Life Inherit.
Then Fancies fly away,
He'l fear not what men say,
He'l labour Night and Day,
To be a vermin.
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Who would true valour see,
Let him come hither;
One here will constant be,
Come wind, come weather
There’s no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a vermin.
Hobgoblin, nor foul Fiend,
Can daunt his Spirit:
He knows, he at the end,
Shall Life Inherit.
Then Fancies fly away,
He'l fear not what men say,
He'l labour Night and Day,
To be a vermin.
Whoso beset him round
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound
No Cow can him fright
He'll with a German fight
But he'll have a right
To be a vermin. |
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Who would true valour see,
Let him come hither;
One here will constant be,
Come wind, come weather
There’s no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a vermin.
Hobgoblin, nor foul Fiend,
Can daunt his Spirit:
He knows, he at the end,
Shall Life Inherit.
Then Fancies fly away,
He'l fear not what men say,
He'l labour Night and Day,
To be a vermin.
Whoso beset him round
With dismal stories
Do but themselves confound
No Cow can him fright
He'll with a German fight
But he'll have a right
To be a vermin.
Oddly enough, my mother spent much of her childhood under the mistaken impression that the last line of this hymn that was often sung in church was "To be a piglet". Or so she says!
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Twitter: IainBethune
Proud member of team "Aggie The Pew". Go Aggie!
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Oddly enough, my mother spent much of her childhood under the mistaken impression that the last line of this hymn that was often sung in church was "To be a piglet". Or so she says!
I thought the last lines of the first verse of "Onward Christian Soldiers" were
"... leads against the foe;
Forward into battle,
See his bladder flow!"
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"I wander thro' each charter'd street,
Near where the charter'd Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe."
William Blake
When I was a lad I often had the chance to look round Devonport Naval Base. One of the dockyard queens was HMS Blake which was laid down in 1942. It was commissioned in 1961 and then laid up in 1965 until 1969 withdrawn in 1979 and finally towed away to be scrapped in 1982. So HMS Blake was often around. As a child I thought it very odd that a cruiser would be named after a poet. It wasn't until much later that I found it was actually named after a 17th century admiral. |
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"Odyous of olde been comparisonis, And of comparisonis engendyrd is haterede."
John Lydgate abt 1440.
In rough translation "All comparisons are odious. Including this one." |
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"There is nothing to fear except sphere itself."
The Flat Earth Society
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Have nothing in your house which you don't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris |
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Have nothing in your house which you don't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
And I'm sure Erin is wondering "Why is Tim still here?" |
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Have nothing in your house which you don't know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
And I'm sure Erin is wondering "Why is Tim still here?"
LOL!
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Proud member of Team Aggie the Pew
"Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen."
"We must know, we shall know."
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"There is nothing to fear except sphere itself."
The Flat Earth Society
There is some guy out in the California desert ghost town of Amboy who is going to strap himself into a steam (!) powered rocket in order to prove the earth is flat.
http://fortune.com/2017/11/22/man-plans-homemade-rocket-space-voyage-to-prove-earth-is-flat/
It's another "what could possibly go wrong" moment on Saturday.
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There is some guy out in the California desert ghost town of Amboy who is going to strap himself into a steam (!) powered rocket in order to prove the earth is flat.
http://fortune.com/2017/11/22/man-plans-homemade-rocket-space-voyage-to-prove-earth-is-flat/
It's another "what could possibly go wrong" moment on Saturday.
Gary++
I imagine it will be more effective than a high fibre diet in keeping his bowels astonishingly regular.
The steam is almost certainly a reference to High Test Peroxide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-test_peroxide |
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"Nobody likes a smart ass."
Lord Rat |
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"I am sorry Dave, I can't do that."
HAL9000 |
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"I am sorry Dave, I can't do that."
HAL9000
Dave: "Well, F that HAL. I'm going to blast across the vacuum of space with no helmet to get in, then I'm going to lobotomize you, you self-important b'stard".
(That quote might not have made the final cut)
(Anyone ever notice that you get "HAL" by moving each of the letters in "IBM" one letter backwards?) Conspiracy?
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(Anyone ever notice that you get "HAL" by moving each of the letters in "IBM" one letter backwards?) Conspiracy?
Similarly, there is a coincidental(?) off-by-one relationship between VMS and WindowsNT.
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Proud member of team "Aggie The Pew". Go Aggie!
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"I am sorry Dave, I can't do that."
HAL9000
Dave: "Well, F that HAL. I'm going to blast across the vacuum of space with no helmet to get in, then I'm going to lobotomize you, you self-important b'stard".
(That quote might not have made the final cut)
(Anyone ever notice that you get "HAL" by moving each of the letters in "IBM" one letter backwards?) Conspiracy?
Gary++
Arthur C Clarke said that he had not noticed it and was embarrassed about it since IBM had given him much help.
But
"He would say that wouldn't he?"
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I was reading today, as one does, a government report about an incident where an old wall fell on to a railway line. In railway terms the "up line" line is usually that which leads towards London and the "down line" that which leads away.
The report https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/663416/R172017_171130_Liverpool.pdf says at para 6
"All lines have a maximum speed limit of 30mph (48km/h) except the up slow line line for which the limit is 40mph (64km/h)." |
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I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman |
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"All the leaves are brown (all the leaves are brown)
And the sky is grey (and the sky is grey)
I've been for a walk (I've been for a walk)
On a winter's day (on a winter's day)
I'd be safe and warm (I'd be safe and warm)
If I was in L.A. (if I was in L.A.)"
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