Posts by andrew llewellyn
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Hot rats on a stick.
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Like the Giant Rat of Sumatra?
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but it's not rocket science to say that shares will be much more likely to be owned by people who are richer than those who don't own shares.
Thinking of my brother in law specifically, that statement was true a few months ago, but no longer.
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Has anyone else seen this? A mistake surely?
Picking recent and ongoing campaigns in Nigeria, Russia, Austria, New Zealand, Taiwan and Zimbabwe, they remind that we're watching a Stepford Wives Tupperware gathering by comparison, with all the venom of virtually any congressional hearing ("I thank the gentle lady from Florida....").
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Oh... last one.
Cher: It's like that book I read in the 9th grade that said "'tis a far far better thing doing stuff for other people."
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Are they studying Clueless at university yet? I'd forgotten how cool some of the lines are.
<quote>Cher: Until mankind is peaceful enough not to have violence on the news, there's no point in taking it out of shows that need it for entertainment value.
Murray: Woman, lend me fi' dollas.
Dionne: Murray, I have asked you repeatedly not to call me "woman".
Murray: Excuse me, "Ms. Dionne."
Dionne: Thank you.
Murray: Okay, but, street slang is an increasingly valid form of expression. Most of the feminine pronouns do have mocking, but not necessarily in misogynistic undertones.Cher: Daddy's a litigator. Those are the scariest kind of lawyer. Even Lucy, our maid, is terrified of him. And daddy's so good he gets $500 an hour to fight with people. But he fights with me for free because I'm his daughter.
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That must have made her feel like an outsider or even a stranger. (lolz!!!!)
I have to confess here that all I know about Camus is how to pronounce his name. Oh, and that he was one of the Watchmen.
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Andrew, do we have exactly the same degree?
Did you get that Fairy Queen question too? English 101 probably hasn't changed since... thinks what was the most contemporary piece... 1929 (The Man WHo Died - DH Lawrence)
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The essay was on Camus' notion of the Absurd
Actually, that reminds me of another Clueless-like non-sequitur, probably something I read in the Listener years ago - about a woman snubbed at a party for not knowing how to pronounce "Camus", but it turned out that she was the only person in the room who'd actually read him (even if the others did know how to pronounce it).
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It was an epiphany.
Kind of like (not) when with 5 minutes to go I confidently looked back over my questions & answers & discovered that one page was duplex printed & there were 5 extra stanzas from the Fairy Queen that I hadn't considered in my answer & which changed the context considerably.
Actually, that was a nearly crap myself moment.