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Frank Verity
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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Location: INDIANA
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I am confident enough that Frank/Henry is the same person, that I would be willing to bet money on it. And I am well known for being a very financially prudent person. 
There is no way in the world that there are two people that would write in such an identically eccentric manner. At best, I would say that 'they' might be two identical twins using the same computer (shown by the odd formatting problems of the two first posts). But now that we all know, we can judge any further posts by 'them' accordingly.
I just knew that Cleo had lots of secret admirers out there. 
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How can this person define with such certitude what is eccentric in English
prose? To define what is eccentric presupposes a definitive model of what is standard and defining what is the standard model of discourse in the
galaxy of English prose proved beyond Wittgenstein and F.R.Leavis.
What right has this harpy to pontificate on the language of Milton and
Kerouac?
How can she assert that two different people could not write in the same
or similar manner?
Does the facile arrogance of the sid set know no bounds? |
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Frank Verity
Joined: 20 Jul 2006
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Location: INDIANA
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 4:24 pm Post subject: |
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'He is not American.We're blunt,direct and not given to circumlocution.'
Yes exactly.Take Mr Nixon or Mr Clinton for example. |
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Bebsi
Joined: 07 Feb 2005
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 5:47 pm Post subject: |
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"Smartarse(d)", "postmodern" and a "great sanctimonious git". That is no way to treat a Bebsi. I am now deeply offended! 
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| I must protest my innocence of Verity. |
I DID wonder about this, if it was intended as ironic, or rather just ended up as ironic in the true (Miltonian) sense.
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'He is not American.We're blunt,direct and not given to circumlocution.'
Yes exactly.Take Mr Nixon or Mr Clinton for example. |
Heard a great one recently:
Mr. G Bush dies and goes to Hell, where he is greeted by a rather sombre looking Mr. Lou C. Feyre.
"Mr. Bush, we are rather short of space down here, I'm afraid".
"That's Ok Lou, I can pop back up to Pete, tell him you said to let me in".
"Well, I'm afraid you don't get off that lightly, Sir. As you are guilty of murder, genocide, arson, incitement to violence, corruption, fraud, treason, mass lying, sedition, gross abuse of power and aiding and abetting others in the same offences, among other transgressions, you are obliged to remain with us. Someone else must leave and vacate a place for you. However, we can make a concession, in that you can choose who leaves from a selection of illustrious figures".
George accepts grudgingly, and is shown to a number of rooms.
In room 1, Richard Nixon is continuously hauling himself out of a pool of hot water, into which he is destined to keep falling for eternity.
"No, thanks, Lou, I'm not a swimmer, actually can't even stand water."
In room 2, Ronald Reagan, resplendent in stetson, is sitting at a PC playing "Star Wars" with a giggling, gin sodden Margeret Thatcher.
"Gee, Lou, c'mon, I can't stand that old Beech, tho Daddy seemed to think she was OK. No way am I going to hang around with THAT for the rest of days."
"Well, Mr. Bush, come this way, perhaps the next option may be more to your taste", and Lou opens the door to a third room, inside which Bill Clinton is lying on his back, smiling beatifically and moaning with pleasure, while Monica Lewinsky eagerly does what she was best known for in her more earthly existence.
"Hell, Lou, I can live with that alright" pounces George with alacrity.
"You''re sure, Mr. Bush?"
"Yup, lemme in there" he yells.
At that, Mr. Feyre announces, "OK Ms. Lewinsky, you're perfectly free to go".
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veiledsentiments
Joined: 20 Feb 2003
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Location: USA
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| Posted: Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Frank Verity wrote: |
How can this person define with such certitude what is eccentric in English
prose? To define what is eccentric presupposes a definitive model of what is standard and defining what is the standard model of discourse in the
galaxy of English prose proved beyond Wittgenstein and F.R.Leavis.
What right has this harpy to pontificate on the language of Milton and
Kerouac?
How can she assert that two different people could not write in the same
or similar manner?
Does the facile arrogance of the sid set know no bounds? |
Oh Frank Henry, you are such a silly boy... so far you seem to the one who is pompously pontificating... do give it up... both addresses are coming from the same computer. So, you are either the same person, twins, or perhaps one of those same sex couples that we hear so much of these days. Your emphasis on literature has not protected you from those who understand computers.
Why you should have to descend to personal insult to try to deny reality says more about you than it does about me, doesn't it?
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