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Jtjorden wrote: ↑Tue Feb 24, 2026 2:39 am This is a parody. It is not meant to create controversy or hurt feelings.

Now write it in the style of e.e. cummings.

Nicely done.

Given those substantial objections, which version do you prefer?

That would be early 17th Century Spanish, specifically early Castellano. Yeah, I'm also pretty sure it won't be in Castellano. If translated into modern Spanish, you might have a chance. As fate would have it, I majored in English and Spanish education. Oddly, Cervantes wasn't on the reading list i...

Highlander wrote: ↑Mon Feb 23, 2026 11:32 pm I'd rather discuss the poems of the English Romantics.

Now you're talking! That happens to be my favorite genre. I have collections of Coleridge, Blake, and Wordsworth. It doesn't hurt that I have a degree in English and a master's in literature.

I just use a marble. If it rolls off, something's crooked.

I own an antique copy of this book - in Spanish.

I tried reading it in English years ago. I may attempt to tackle it again someday, but I'm pretty sure it won't be in Spanish. My skill is just not up to it.

p.falk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 04, 2026 1:50 pm You can do what I do... respond to my own posts. Looks like there's traffic then.

If I respond to myself and I don't answer, did I make a sound in the forest?

Doom wrote: ↑Mon Feb 16, 2026 6:20 pm It is worth 25 points in Scrabble, more if it lands on a double or triple word score

Good luck working that in. It has ten letters which means you'd have to piggyback the thing on something else.

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Fri Feb 13, 2026 3:12 pm Did he demonstrate heroic virtue? If so, how?

He wore a cape, and everybody knows only heroes wear capes.

anawim wrote: ↑Fri Feb 20, 2026 12:36 pm

p.falk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 20, 2026 10:35 am
But the death nail

Death knell. Knell is the slow, methodical, tolling of a bell.

Couldn't it be the first nail in the coffin?

Either way sounds like a killer mixed drink.

Bonus points to P. Falk for using lachrymose in a sentence.

Why not?

Now how about GK Chesterton?

If only.

I bailed out of the classroom right after I hit the magic number 70 (age + years experience). And now I'm subbing all over Houston. It gets me out of the house. It's mostly great work. No faculty meetings, no lesson plans, no IEPs, no grading, no "see me" notes in my box. And if I have a p...

zeno wrote: ↑Mon Feb 02, 2026 12:55 pm We have btdt on this subject

My IT department was unavailable (i.e. my 40-something daughter) so I had to Giggle up this term. Maybe I just need to stay home more surfing the web.

[T]here seems to be a generational change in the expectations for grandparents. . . The idea seems to be that, since the grandparents are retired and have nothing to do, there is no reason that they can't take care of the grandkids. The flip side of this is is when parents withhold the grandkids, w...

Wait until you get grandchildren, and everything they do reminds you of him all over again. Keep a box of tissue handy. I use a lot of 'em.

I once sat in a room where the results of a series of experiments were being discussed. . . Holy cow! I read this twice to make sure I got the whole thing. I could have read it 4-5 more times. I mean, it wasn't exactly Moby Dick . Plus, it was interesting. Anyway, this confirms my worst suspicions ...