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“My question is why is such a war criminal still walking the streets a free man. byron”
“Simply because it's Palin this has turned into a Major news story, which it most certainly is not! byron”
“Don't be fools, email/call senetors and congress to Support Ron Paul's Audit the Federal Reserve HR 1207 byron”
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“Remember these jobs were lost over time and it'll take time to gget 'em back, not overnight. byron”
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“This post wasn't about religion/god, if you haven't noticed yet. byron”
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“January 1st, 2010 5: 27 pm ET you mean he actually has one? byron”
“I'm excited to see this, love Shakespeare and it seems as if we haven't had a good Shakespearean movie in ages byron d.”
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“Give them a clown car .... then they can have a true career. byron”
“I'll NEVER forgive John McCain for unleashing her on us. byron”
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frindley's ark
I'll describe it once it begins to take shape. But I'll explain the name: it's a reversal of what happened when the Americans changed the name of Thomas Keneally's novel to Schindler's List.
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seanahan I really enjoy the parenthetical after "Buckland kept a bear named Tiglath Pileser". Almost as if the comment was responding to the name, not the actual bear keeping. Nov 3, 2008
chained_bear I think you meant "how I applaud the orang-utang's discrimination." Nov 2, 2008
bilby C'mon, put the hanky away and applaud the ourang-outang's discretion. Nov 2, 2008
chained_bear *wipes tear*
Frindley, you probably didn't know that Mr. Bruin was my great-great-great-grandfather. How sweet to know his story has not been lost. :) Nov 2, 2008
frindley Bears at Oxbridge
While lecturing at Oxford, geologist William Buckland kept a bear named Tiglath Pileser. (Buckland was a lunatic.) In 1847 he dressed "Tig" in a cap and gown and took him to the annual meeting of the British Association and to a garden party at the Botanic Gardens. "The bear sucked all our hands and was very caressing," remembered Charles Lyell. Eventually banished from Christ Church, Tig retired to Islip, where he terrorized the local sweetshop owner until he was sent to the Zoological Gardens.
Byron kept a bear in his chambers at Cambridge — because, he said, Trinity rules forbade dogs. "I had a great hatred of college rules, and contempt for academical honors." It's said he conducted it there in a stagecoach (as "Lord Byron and Mr. Bruin") to sit for a fellowship.
"There was, by the by, rather a witty satire founded on my bear," Byron later remembered. "A friend of Shelley's made an ourang-outang (Oran Hanton, Esq.) the hero of a novel ('Melincourt'), had him created a baronet, and returned for the borough of One Vote."
From the marvellous Futility Closet Nov 2, 2008