Let me correct two typos : it should read 'that's less that the
population of Shrewsbury' (I might add I repeated both typos while
typing this, so much for eyecare, but realised I had) and that the
joke notion of a Grandfather (or Granny, as in how many Grannies does
a century weigh) as a Unit of Time equals fifty years, that is the
rough average of time between the inception of a Grandpa/Ma and
grandchild (note the variable capitals, being animals we like to
denote authority-status all the ticking hypothetical time)
Best
Dave
2009/2/3 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
> PS
>
> going off at a tangent here, but I was pleased yesterday to be
> reminded of the notion of a Grandfather as a unit of time.
>
> Hence Shakespeare was in his prime not 400 years but eight
> Grandfathers ago (or Grannies if you prefer). The human-chimpanzee
> lineage diverged something like 60,000 Grandfathers ago, which sounds
> a lot, until you realise that last Saturday's extremely boring
> goalless draw between Arsenal and West Ham had an equivalent number of
> spectators, and presumably evinced as much evidence of purpose as
> evolution (that's less thatn the poulation of Shrewsbury, or Ballaratt
> - the latter for Alison)
>
> Best
>
> Dave
>
> 2009/2/3 David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>:
>> I remember one evening when I was eighteen, several centuries ago,
>> sitting with my first +serious+ girlfriend and my then i.e. deceased
>> mom and dad on the same settee watching that film and said distant
>> parents, who barely spoke, and hadn't slept in the same bed alone
>> together since before my conscious memories (I do recall them being in
>> the same bed when I was about three but they put me in the middle as a
>> contraceptive device) watching that film, with me and my first
>> prolonged love, and HOLDING HANDS.
>>
>> It was a shock to me, and probably to my dad, as he dropped dead a few
>> weeks after.
>>
>> Best
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/2/3 Jeffrey Side <[log in to unmask]>:
>>> New blog post:
>>> "Looking at the barrage of overrated and over-produced contemporary films it is easy to forget that film once aspired to be an art form. One such film is William Wyler's 1939 underrated version of Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights which ..."
>>> http://jeffreyside.tripod.com/
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Bircumshaw
>> Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
>> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
>> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
> Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
>
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David Bircumshaw
Website and A Chide's Alphabet http://homepage.ntlworld.com/david.bircumshaw/
The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
Leicester Poetry Society: http://www.poetryleicester.co.uk
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