Yeah, but how does all this impact on our interpretation of Golding's _The
Inheritors_?
(William, that is, not Arthur.)
A Curious Rodent
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Bircumshaw" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: New issue of Versification
> Roger
>
> to muddy the waters even further:
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100506141559.htm
>
> lots of links into endless ifs and buts on the page too
>
> best
>
> Ug
>
> On 8 May 2010 21:00, Roger Collett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Cop this then Dave:
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8660940.stm
>>
>> Roger Collett
>> Arrowhead Press
>>
>> http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> "Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
>> Jules de Gaultier
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bircumshaw" <
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>>
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2010 8:56 PM
>> Subject: Re: New issue of Versification
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8 May 2010 20:46, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> You're such a Neanderthal, Dave
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 'Fraid, not, according to our Scientific Brethren, we don't have any
>>> Neanderthal DNA, quite possibly because our ancestors wiped out the poor
>>> craggy-browed lumps
>>>
>>>
>>> .
>>>>
>>>> .
>>>>
>>>> I began using the lumpy term "USAmerican" years ago when someone on
>>>> petc
>>>> drew it to our attention that "American" would apply to Canadians and
>>>> those
>>>> living anywhere central and south of the USA on this continent. The
>>>> person
>>>> recommended, therefore, using "USAmerican", so I have done.
>>>>
>>>> Judy only slightly suspicious of her own Neanderthal dna
>>>>
>>>> On 8 May 2010 15:25, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> > Well, strip away the Emperor's clothes, whether USA-American or UK-er
>>>> (when
>>>> > the hell did this awful lingo break in?) and you have:
>>>> >
>>>> > PRIMATE STATUS CODES
>>>> >
>>>> > yes, folks, it's all the way back to the Stone Age for a free peer
>>>> > into
>>>> the
>>>> > tribal stream, because underneath it all Neolithic Ape-Persons is Wot
>>>> We
>>>> > Are, still hard-wired for clan-groups of about 120-180 people, and
>>>> capable
>>>> > of using anything, be it a Stealth bomber or a Language and all its
>>>> > Trappings of Power with all the Gentle Persuasive Pow'rs of a
>>>> > hand-axe.
>>>> So
>>>> > doing the Large Society Thing don't come easy to us, especially when
>>>> that
>>>> > most aphrodisiac asset is concerned: p-p-power.
>>>> >
>>>> > On 8 May 2010 18:13, Judy Prince <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > > Yeah, Dave, I'm giving the USA spin on "president" bcuz I've lived
>>>> with
>>>> > the
>>>> > > system my entire life. To imagine, from my perspective, as I said,
>>>> > > a
>>>> > > monarch being called a president runs against all that USAers had
>>>> > > and
>>>> > have
>>>> > > thought the role to be. We're the ones, you may recall, who tried
>>>> rather
>>>> > > desperately to figure out what to call our first president, having
>>>> > > reasonably ditched "the other" George. We finally settled on "Mr.
>>>> > > President" which, natch, is now outmodedly sexist.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > As I said elsewhere, it amazes me that (with my stereotypical view
>>>> > > of
>>>> > Brits
>>>> > > as polite, courteous creatures who are oddly loose cannons on the
>>>> deck
>>>> of
>>>> > > already nationwide individualism) I've not yet met or read a Brit
>>>> > > who
>>>> has
>>>> > > anything positive to say about the royals.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > For my own part, I'm heartened that Prince Charles strikes many
>>>> USAers
>>>> as
>>>> > a
>>>> > > guy with a reasonable aesthetic sensibility and an enlightened,
>>>> practical
>>>> > > view of agricultural methods. But the Brits I've talked to have
>>>> nothing
>>>> > > positive to say about him. Oh, hang on----his older son is thought
>>>> to
>>>> be
>>>> > > himself an exception to the rule that royals are dumb as &%$ (not
>>>> > > my
>>>> > > words!)!
>>>> > >
>>>> > > Judy
>>>> > >
>>>> > >
>>>> > > On 8 May 2010 12:51, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > >
>>>> > > > >UK's "president", as you'd call QE2, (to a USAmerican, a very
>>>> very
>>>> > > > strange
>>>> > > > application of the word to a MONARCH, for heaven's sake!) is
>>>> regarded
>>>> > by
>>>> > > us
>>>> > > > as a combo of our vestigial English past, our love for glitz,
>>>> glamour,
>>>> > > > wealth and "the Old World", and our prurient interest in the
>>>> personal
>>>> > > > goings-on of Brit upper-crusts. Other than that, we're shocked
>>>> that
>>>> a
>>>> > > > royal would have any real influence on politics.<
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > > Well Judy the monarch's the Head of State here as a President is
>>>> > > > in
>>>> > other
>>>> > > > countries, such as the one across the channel as well as the one
>>>> across
>>>> > > the
>>>> > > > ocean. i wouldn't gey swayed too much by the glitz though: the
>>>> present
>>>> > > > Crown
>>>> > > > Jewels are really rather top-heavy over-furnished
>>>> Victorian-Edwardian
>>>> > > > creations, the one surviving mediaeval crown (it's in Germany
>>>> somewhere
>>>> > I
>>>> > > > think) is altogether a subtler thing, a tasteful bunch of
>>>> > mass-murderers
>>>> > > > the
>>>> > > > old royalty, not like the present horsey dullards. Yes, in the
>>>> > > > old
>>>> days
>>>> > > > domestic assassins had style.
>>>> > > >
>>>> > > >
>>>> > >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>> > --
>>>> > David Bircumshaw
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> "If we'd stopped at the number ten, everything would be great."
>>>>
>>>> Jeff Hecker, Norfolk VA
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Bircumshaw
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>>>
>
>
> --
> David Bircumshaw
> "Every old house was scaffolding once/And workmen whistling"
> Website and A Chide's Alphabet
> http://www.staplednapkin.org.uk
> The Animal Subsides http://www.arrowheadpress.co.uk/books/animal.html
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