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What George III actually wrote was : "Es gibt im Westen nichts neues zu berichten."
This is of course, a canard.
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> A canard.
Why? Did he actually write:
"Im Westen nichts Neues."
..or what?
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This is of course, a canard
What's ducks got to do with it?
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> What's ducks got to do with it?
vendre un canard à moitié
..smart ar.... aleck
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To tease Bridget for her mildly anti-American jest, I was pretending George III did not speak English, as was the case with Georges I and II. So, "canard" meant a lie. I paraphrased the last line in Im Westen Nichts Neues, an anti-war novel of the thirties.
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What's ducks got to do with it,
Got to do with it?
What's ducks but a second hand commotion?
What's ducks got to do with it,
Who needs the smart
With the smart in Hoboken?
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> To tease Bridget for her mildly anti-American jest, I was pretending George III did not speak English, as was the case with Georges I and II. So, "canard" meant a lie. I paraphrased the last line in Im Westen Nichts Neues, an anti-war novel of the thirties.
You have a very active, if abstract mind, Bill.
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Dear belligerent youth. My mind is not abstract, my cerebral cortex is obstructed with senile plaques. A total body scan actually showed them. Thanks for pretending otherwise.
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wwh > my cerebral cortex is obstructed with senile plaques. A total body scan actually showed them.
Good heavens, if your this intelligent *with senile plaques ... well !!!!
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Why do the nations so furiously rage together?
Why do the people imagine a vain thang? *
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*apologies to Hændel and his Biblical librettist
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