the "Swing Riots" began in August of that year with a thrashing machine being
destroyed at Lower Hadres in Kent. Wow, the Kent thrashing-machine party! Dr. Bill, I am not making fun--my mind just works that way. I very much appreciate your finding that, especially since I had to look up a Hx of France to refresh my poor memory on the "revolution of 1830". Your research makes the poem VERY clearly a part of its time--thank you.
Now--you also posted "silly post tsuwm". My dear, he is not a silly post: he's a human
. Post-graduate, possibly; posthumous, I don't think so; posturing--never that I've known of; postludinous--often
; postulatory-- seldom (usually the opposite); post-master--indubitably!
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I was thinking that tsuwm is seldom silly, and that reminded me of his comment in another thread, which I got the gist of as being that he often used to post that we could look things up, and now he has changed that style of posting.
And that got me to thinking about how interesting group dynamics are: here, we seem to welcome differences--up to a point. As I recall, tsuwm received a couple of protests, pretty much exactly what was posted today in another thread, and changed. I can think of some examples of times when an individual has made posts SO different from "the norm" (don't ask me to define that!) that pressure from the group was brought to bear, and the individuals have yielded to that pressure, one way and another. Shoot--a few months back, a whole GROUP of newcomers put pressure on us old-timers to stop using what amounted to a "secret language"
(YART being the first thing that comes to mind), and we did! (mostly
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