History Forum / General / British History / March 2008

You know, he has some useful points here.
DSH
"Peter Jason" <pj@jostle.com> wrote in message
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The Pagan, The Druid, and The Wiccan say, "Unearth the Secrets!"
http://sarsen56.wordpress.com/solve-this/
http://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/new/spring08/505155.htm
http://thamesandhudson.texterity.com/catalogue/2008spring/?pg=79

http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2008033349280.jpg
The Turing Test gets mentioned here, so I think it makes it on-topic in AHB.

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DSH
"John Foster" <retsof@austin.rr.com> wrote in message
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Lagavulin is the Royal Monarch of Single Malt Scotch Whisky.
Hands Down.
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas

Pogue Brannigan proves, once again, that he has, at best, only a tyro's
understanding of the Dynamics, Repercussions & Resonances of History --
somewhere on the Junior High School Level.
1.  He can't even WRITE _Dolchstoss_ and _Dolchstosslegende_ correctly.

More Fun & Games...
DSH
Lux et Veritas et Libertas
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Hilarious!
"James Hogg" is so stupid he didn't even realize that BOUGHTEN is a
participial ADJECTIVE...
Just as is its close kin, FOUGHTEN.

One doesn't intelligently make National Security Policy by reading polls and
holding a wettened finger to the breeze.
[Yes, Victoria. -- As in: "Glass harmonica, a set of glass bowls set
horizontally to rotate in a water-filled chamber where the sound is

Drip, Drip, Drip...
Barak Hussein Obama has by no means survived the Pastor Disaster, in fact
the chickens are just coming home to roost.
The New Pastor at the Obama Church is preaching along the same lines as

Good English, among other things, is about drawing precise and useful
distinctions.
WET, MOIST -- internally caused or non-causative result state.
WETTENED, SOAKED -- externally caused result state.

An Easter UK TV prog portrayed Joseph of Arimathea as a negro.
Intrigued, I could then find no reason for this?
Even more intriguing, I found that the town(?) of Arimathea is also unknown
today, apart from the fact that it was in Judea.

McCain clashes with NYT reporter
Michael Calderone
The Politico
John McCain became hostile with the N.Y. Times' Elisabeth Bumiller on the

Yes, alternative (b) is much better -- in THIS sentence.
Don't fall for that old, pig-ignorant assertion that after a preposition you
MUST use WHOMEVER.
DSH

"If men are so wicked with religion, what would they be if
without it?"
-- Benjamin Franklin (to Thomas Paine, Date Unknown)
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