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Go ahead and harrumph, Max, but my lawyer asks you to remember to use the ®
Mais, non, ma belle du Sud! I wasn't h***ing, I was inquiring why you weren't h***ing over the far more numerous posts dealing on US sports, in the interest of objectivity and evenhandedness. I am well disposed to all things Atlantan, says he quaffing his "Atlanta Ale", even if you'll never catch me singing in harmony with anyone.
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>...and although my advocacy may travel south on occasion, there has to be at least 2.24 percent of *truth (or was that *beauty?) somewhere north in the post.
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty" -- a correct philosophical utterance made aesthetically incorrect at the very moment it is uttered. beauty is truth only if and when the pedagogue is there to say so by whatever means he can -- arguably, beauty is truth precisely when it does *not say so, just as a holy man disproves his holiness as soon as he asserts it. ironically enough then, this most famous line of Keats, while starkly simple, denies what a simple line must be valued for, asserting what should be implied, attesting to what it can't. it's a paradox akin to "this sentence is false".
[after Alexander Theroux]
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> "Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty"
I read once that 'beauty is a label of lies'.
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Go ahead and harrumph, Max, but my lawyer asks you to remember to use the ®Mais, non, ma belle du Sud! I wasn't h***ing, I was inquiring why you weren't h***ing over the far more numerous posts dealing on US sports, in the interest of objectivity and evenhandedness. I am well disposed to all things Atlantan, says he quaffing his "Atlanta Ale", even if you'll never catch me singing in harmony with anyone.Don't worry Max. The ® symbol means Rugby. The © means Cricket. We've got her cornered, boy, we really have! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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tsuwm admits to a more general interest in the correct pronunciation of 'Goethe'.
It's pronounced göthe (note: not göþe) just like it's spelled.
Unless you're a Chicago bus driver, in which case it's pronounced go ee þee.
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pronunciation of Goethe
Back in the 50's, when I was studying German, I was watching Bishop Fulton J. Sheen's TV show, and he gave a quote and identified the author as "Gatey", which I found highly amusing, as the good bishop was an erudite man. He must have learned German from a Bavarian. I'm told they speak of a Mädl as having shaney baney (schöne Beine).
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"A spotty young thinker named Goethe
Was in love with his wife, wouldn't hurt 'er ... "
as opposed to the Limerick:
Asked Puzzled of London to Goethe
with "thou" is it "dost" or "do-eth"
That's an absolute stinker,
said Goethe the thinker,
Just put down whatever sounds beth.
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> He must have learned German from a Bavarian. I'm told they speak of a Mädl as having shaney baney (schöne Beine).
'Schöne Beine would be ca. 'scheene Beene', but they'd wouldn't say that.
A young girl unhappy with her figure might moan:
Baverian: I hob koa scheene Hax'n
German : Ich habe keine schöne Beine bzw. Meine Beine sind nicht schön
English : I don't have nice legs
An scheen gruass an Eicha! Sauguad!
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