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Post by booklady on Dec 30, 2007 19:59:39 GMT -5
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Post by Brit on Dec 30, 2007 20:01:54 GMT -5
Did you know that the founder of what is now the American Navy was a Scotsman?
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Post by booklady on Dec 30, 2007 20:02:29 GMT -5
No! What was his name?
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Post by Brit on Dec 30, 2007 20:03:39 GMT -5
John Paul Jones
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Post by Brit on Dec 30, 2007 20:04:33 GMT -5
You are right!
We only know what we have been taught!
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Post by booklady on Dec 30, 2007 20:05:56 GMT -5
Well, I've heard of John Paul Jones. Something about him and the Erie Canal....... or maybe that was somebody else.
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Post by slb2 on Dec 30, 2007 20:08:24 GMT -5
I'm shocked. Not at YOU, of course. You can only know what you were taught. I just assumed that Lewis and Clark were on the order of any great explorers -- Columbus and Byrd and Captain Cook. That's interesting, books, because I consider them minor in relation to world explorers such as you went on to mention. otoh, I consider Sacajaweha (sp???) to be of much more import.
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Post by booklady on Dec 30, 2007 20:13:15 GMT -5
Well, then, they haven't gotten the press they deserve. These guys were trés importantes!
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Post by Brit on Dec 30, 2007 20:14:24 GMT -5
An interesing diversion but who is this bloody woman?
(The picture I mean ladies!)
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Post by booklady on Dec 30, 2007 20:17:35 GMT -5
Yes, well we have to wait for Gracie to come back and say whether Joe's guess of Peg Bracken, Mike's guess of Woody Allen, or my guesses of Dorothy Parker or Flannery O'Connor are correct or not.
Anyone else have a guess?
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Post by slb2 on Dec 30, 2007 20:19:00 GMT -5
Well, then, they haven't gotten the press they deserve. These guys were trés importantes! Je ne sais pas. I guess I need to read up on them. I know what they did, generally speaking, but not that it was of great world importance.
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Post by slb2 on Dec 30, 2007 20:22:46 GMT -5
Hey, isn't that a young Woody Allen. I need to look at the picture. I did not cheat. I squinted and scrolled the page up when I "quoted" this post so that I wouldn't see the dirty details. My guesses: Emily Post or Edith Wharton
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Post by slb2 on Dec 30, 2007 20:23:53 GMT -5
I bet it's Edith.
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Post by Brit on Dec 30, 2007 20:25:03 GMT -5
Whilst we are on historical personage, I ventured to google Mt McKinley, thinking I could come up with another Scot who made it big in your country, but I found a little snippet which might be of some interest to y'all and remind us of a past friend.
In 1910, four locals (Tom Lloyd, Peter Anderson, Billy Taylor, and Charles McGonagall), known as the Sourdough expedition, attempted McKinley, despite a complete lack of climbing experience.
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Post by booklady on Dec 30, 2007 21:10:02 GMT -5
Did anyone else have trouble accessing the site for a while? I couldn't get the page to load.
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Post by booklady on Dec 30, 2007 21:20:00 GMT -5
"Too many connections."
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Post by Thomas Scheuzger on Dec 30, 2007 21:20:34 GMT -5
Yes, well we have to wait for Gracie to come back and say whether Joe's guess of Peg Bracken, Mike's guess of Woody Allen, or my guesses of Dorothy Parker or Flannery O'Connor are correct or not. Anyone else have a guess? I second Joe's guess - it's the I Hate to Cook lady...
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Post by booklady on Dec 30, 2007 21:21:57 GMT -5
Ohhhh! And that's why Gracie wouldn't be expected to like her. I get it!
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Post by slb2 on Dec 30, 2007 23:05:39 GMT -5
I think joew's right. If he doesn't want to post the next photo, he could beg off and ask ThoS since he seconded joew's response.
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Post by joew on Dec 30, 2007 23:58:43 GMT -5
If Gracie confirms the identity as Peg Bracken, I'd be pleased to have Thomas submit the next picture.
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Post by joew on Dec 31, 2007 0:03:55 GMT -5
And Brit — If Wikipedia doesn't tell you, Richard Evelyn Byrd was the brother of Harry Flood Byrd, who was a Senator from Virginia from the 1930's to the 1960's (and they are not related to the windbag with the same last name who currently represents West Virginia in the Senate — at least not closely enough for anyone to be aware of it when Harry and Robert served together).
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Post by Gracie on Dec 31, 2007 23:03:11 GMT -5
If Gracie confirms the identity as Peg Bracken, I'd be pleased to have Thomas submit the next picture. Three cheers for Joe! and am I ever surprised that he knew her! Yeah, that's why I thought you'd find it funny that I liked her...because her fame is the "I Hate to Cook" bit. That is one of the funniest books I ever read. She spoke of sauteeing onions until they were limp and defeated, or simmering something just long enough for one good chorus of "Gloomy Sunday." Actually she did like to cook, but, as she said, she didn't like having to ALWAYS cook, and when this book was first published women were still supposed to be Suzy Homemaker/Betty Crocker/et al, all rolled into one. She died a few weeks ago....a good long life. She seemed like a friend of mine. That's why I posted her... I'm sorry I stepped out of line here though, I didn't realize there was another picture being considered at the time (and my guess would have been the famous duet duo, Hamilton and Burr. We're related to one of them, I can never remember which one, but my mom knows.)
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Post by Gracie on Dec 31, 2007 23:03:50 GMT -5
OK, I've just looked at a picture of Shirley Jackson. Clearly the photo is not of her! You like her, too? I LOVED her Life Among the Savages!
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Post by booklady on Dec 31, 2007 23:07:22 GMT -5
Well, there was "Charles," and of course, "The Lottery." Those are mainly what I know of her.
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Post by joew on Dec 31, 2007 23:10:24 GMT -5
Rombauer and Becker wrote The Joy of Cooking. With Peg Bracken, the idea was more "The Fun of Cooking."
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Post by Trusty on Jan 1, 2008 22:03:29 GMT -5
And Brit — If Wikipedia doesn't tell you, Richard Evelyn Byrd was the brother of Harry Flood Byrd, who was a Senator from Virginia from the 1930's to the 1960's (and they are not related to the windbag with the same last name who currently represents West Virginia in the Senate — at least not closely enough for anyone to be aware of it when Harry and Robert served together). There is a little-known fact about Admiral Byrd. He would have discovered the South Pole the first time, had something in his head not kept telling him to turn - then turn again - then turn a third time. So, he vowed to return the second time with his lucky tambourine, and, lo and behold, the instrument, working like a dowsing rod, led him right to the South Pole! (I don't have time to draw this out and make it really long. ) Anyway, in his memoirs, he mentioned the impact the turns and the tambourine had on the seasons in Antarctica, so his family added music to them, and the rest is history. You can check out his family, the Byrds, on their website, complete with pictures (except for Aunt Mamie, who refused to be in the photographs, and everyone is still wondering if ANYone has ever seen her face). Hey, I said it was a little-known fact.
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Post by booklady on Jan 2, 2008 19:21:58 GMT -5
But Trusty, at the earth's poles, if you turn, turn, and turn again, don't you end up where you started?
You know that old riddle, "what color was the bear?"? (Do I need two question marks?)
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Post by slb2 on Jan 2, 2008 22:56:35 GMT -5
You know that old riddle, "what color was the bear?"? (Do I need two question marks?) No doll, you don't need two question marks. This is the United States. We put our punctuation inside the quotation marks. Gents like Brit put them on the outside.
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Post by Brit on Jan 3, 2008 8:00:07 GMT -5
We are told:Not always Ma'am!
It depends on the context of which I am writing!
Or should that be "the context in which I am writing"?
In that example, I place the question mark outside the quotation marks. I am asking a question about what is within the quotation marks and drop the exclamation mark.
However, if I were quoting someone else's question, I would put it inside the quotation marks. For example, if you had asked: "Is that why Brit puts the question mark outside the quotation or brackets?" then I would put the question mark inside the quotation marks, because it is not me that is asking the question.
You good folks must remember I had no formal education beyond the age of 16. Nice to be top of a page now and again!
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Post by rogesgallery on Jan 3, 2008 8:58:16 GMT -5
Brit you are always the top of the joke page, so what's the joke of the day. Where do you come up with all of those? It's sometimes hard to believe that there is so much to make fun with in this world. Mmmmmmmmaybe not!
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