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Nov 5, 2003
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“Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.” ~EmersonInvite friends & family 
A.Word.A.Day
with Anu GargColonel Blimp
(KUHR-nl blimp)
noun: A pompous reactionary with out-of-date views. [After Colonel Blimp, a cartoon character created by David Low (1891-1963).]
"President Clinton and the bipartisan leadership of the House of
Representatives are trying to grease the skids on which Puerto Rico can
slide into statehood. After holding the Caribbean island as a colony for
100 years, it's about time. But it is dismaying to see the kind of
opposition to statehood that is being aroused by the Colonel Blimps, the
racists, the hate-the-poor crowd, and the English-only zealots on the
mainland." X-BonusAs regards intellectual work, it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realms of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual working in solitude. -Sigmund Freud, neurologist, founder of psychoanalysis (1856-1939) |
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