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Not very English. Tradition and a public celebration of achievement. I enjoyed both my graduations: for a B.S. and my masters degree. The drunken orgy afterwards was also fun.

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05-13-2024 , 10:04 PM

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Zeno

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Nuking the French is obviously worth the effort. I’ve always vacillated if nuking the English would be worth the trouble. Obviously, the Irish should be wiped off the map. Ditto for Canadians.

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05-14-2024 , 08:18 AM

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lastcardcharlie

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I know what it is! We've arrived at the West Coast! We're all strangers again! Folks, I just forgot the biggest gumption trap of all. The funeral procession! The one everybody's in, this hyped-up, ****-you, supermodern, ego style of life that thinks it owns this country. We've been out of it for so long I'd forgotten all about it.

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05-15-2024 , 09:40 PM

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John Cole

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Further explanation is needed.

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05-16-2024 , 02:53 AM

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lastcardcharlie

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Originally Posted by John Cole

Further explanation is needed.

I'm reading Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance for the fourth time. I recommended it to somebody last week, and started to look at a free, pdf copy of it, with no intention of reading much, and now I've nearly finished it again. They're travelling west, and have arrived in Oregon, and those lines seemed to go with Zeno's post somehow.

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05-16-2024 , 01:25 PM

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John Cole

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I've never read it, but I might if it's a PDF.

Zeno thinks the Irish should be eliminated. Good thing I'm only half Irish. Since the other half is British, I might get a break.

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05-16-2024 , 01:32 PM

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John Cole

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When Groucho Marx was told his daughter couldn't go into a club swimming pool because she was a Jew, he replied, "My wife is not Jewish. Can she go swimming and let our daughter wade up to her waist?”

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05-16-2024 , 03:02 PM

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lastcardcharlie

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Damn, I thought you were going to admonish me for giving a quote without a reference. In which case I was going to bring up the thread title.

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05-16-2024 , 08:03 PM

#284

REDeYeS00

always sloppy

Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 22,924

highly discourage zeno and the arts of groucho marx maintenance
otherwise robert pirsig is a fantastic read
i would be lila if i told you otherwise

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Yesterday , 09:37 AM

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Zeno

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There is a great sequence in the movie Blazing Saddles in which the Irish come up in a discussion! Perhaps some of you remember it.

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Yesterday , 09:51 AM

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Zeno

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Damn, I thought you were going to admonish me for giving a quote without a reference. In which case I was going to bring up the thread title.

Too English. And she doesn’t have boobs to speak of. Not a bad singing voice. So you hit one out of three. In baseball that ain’t bad.

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Yesterday , 01:09 PM

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golddog

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There is a great sequence in the movie Blazing Saddles in which the Irish come up in a discussion! Perhaps some of you remember it.

Among the many scenes which would make a re-make of Blazing Saddles impossible today.

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Today , 10:59 AM

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Phat Mack

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Originally Posted by lastcardcharlie

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Originally Posted by John Cole

I've never read it, but I might if it's a PDF.

There's a beautiful passage in it where he teaches writing to a student with nothing to say by getting her to look at the ultimate brick.

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