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i guess it okay if he is a commoner-- but if he were a peer-- he be noble and it would a case of a No-bal badcock!
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that Poe boy
This brings to mind 2 traditional stories.
1. In Baltimore, my fair city, the house where E.A. Poe lived for a time with his young wife/cousin and her mother is still standing and has been a sort of museum for many years. Sometime in the 1920s, a tourist, unable to find Amity Street (the location), asked a young man on the street for directions to the Poe house. Of course, he was directed to the nearest charity hospital.
2. About the same era, a tourist in Vienna looking for Sigmund Freud's house, and thinking he spoke German well, asked directions to "das Freudehaus" and was directed to the nearest house of joy.
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Our Balmerian notes, re Poe's wife: her mother is still standing
She is?
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Quoth Bobyoungbalt:
2. About the same era, a tourist in Vienna looking for Sigmund Freud's house, and thinking he spoke German well, asked
directions to "das Freudehaus" and was directed to the nearest house of joy.
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Do you suppose they used the aforementioned Dutch Glans soap there? Do you think that Freud's name was the least bit eponymous?
That reminds me of Romeo's famous line, "What's in a name? A nose by any other name would smell a sweet." Then he went and killed himself. Go figure. Maybe he didn't have any of that Dutch soap, and Julie got a whiff of him...
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of troy wrote:
i guess it okay if he is a commoner-- but if he were a peer-- he be noble and it would a case of a No-bal badcock!
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Did you hear about the pompous MP who considered The Bard to be a bawd? After a garrulous denouncement of Shakespearian innuendo (a word that he mistook for the Italian term for buggary) the tabloid headlines read, "William Shakes Peer."
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What about "button" or "zip" your lips.
And when our circulation has been cut-off to a limb we say that particular body part is "asleep".
"Adversity is the whetstone of creativity"
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There's also "Lend me your ears."
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Je vous bienviens, français31415. Je suis trés intéressée
dans votre nom! Il faut que vous parleraz á belMarduk--
j'ai oublié trop, le parler, vraiment.
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What about "hold on to your noses", meaning we're about to get in over our heads. Hey! that's two.
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Bonjour Jackie!
J'étais très heureuse de voir votre message! Je suis americaine, mais j'apprends le français depuis 3 ou 4 ans. Et vous, êtes-vous americain(e), ou français(e), ou canadien(ne), ou quoi?
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