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#205710 - 05/05/12 09:05 PM No, not phrenology [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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If you must have your sciences soft,
I found a hat someone had doffed
...Reading Psychology
...Or Sociology
What was that? Somebody coughed?
OPPRESSIVE - ORNAMENT
#205724 - 05/06/12 08:36 PM Joined: Aug 2001
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1] Henry II and Thomas a' Becket of Canterbury (he was the "turbulent priest" that Henry wanted rid of.)
2]Richard III and the two young Princes , murdered in the Tower of London (supposedly) - which is the plot of Tey's excellent book, Daughter of Time
3] Henry VIII and Sir Thomas More, whom Good King Hal had beheaded for not agreeing to support the Divorce between himself and Catherine of Arragon.
There we have a slice of English history, covering just over two centuries - a very colourful and turbulent period, indeed, although not the period in which I specialise (I'm a late C18/C19 Social Historian by trade.)...
A final word:
Richard III, and the horrendous actions attributed to him, is the core of Tey's Daughter of Time.
Thomas More, referred to in the book (somewhat sardonically) as "the Sainted Thomas," wrote a history of those times widely considered authoritative, though he lived two generations later.
Referring to Thomas More as the "meddlesome priest," when that title more properly inheres to Thomas à Becket, is my error, pure and simple.
Moral: Don't accept everything you read as Gospel. Even if it comes from a Saint. Or me. Or even Snopes.com. (But that's another story...)
#205727 - 05/07/12 03:43 AM Joined: Jun 2010
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Sometimes Words Can Be Self-evident
Don't accept every Gospel you read as moral
And beware of facts that you hear that are oral
Instruments of oppression?
Or ornaments on progression?
-The best named goat is the South American goral
SCHEME - SCIENCE
#205728 - 05/07/12 05:36 AM Joined: May 2010
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On Wiki don't place great reliance.
The open-write scheme
Propagates any meme,
Until it's corrected by clients.
BOBBY PIN – BOGOTÁ
#205729 - 05/07/12 10:25 AM Joined: Jun 2006
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Since you are talking clichés: 'history will absolve you'.
#205730 - 05/07/12 10:51 AM Joined: Aug 2001
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Yes, but is it "History is the Daughter of Time" or
"History is written by the winners" ?
#205731 - 05/07/12 02:21 PM Joined: Jun 2010
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Like when he pinned an orangutang in Bogota
He tied him in a knot
To untie him he forgot
And that orangutang is still tied up in Bogota
RUTHLESS - SACKFUL
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#205734 - 05/07/12 04:52 PM Joined: Nov 2011
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But she left me to go to Duluth
With my friend, who’s got dash
And a sackful of cash,
So now I am Ruthless, i’sooth!
APERIENT - APOLOGY
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
#205742 - 05/08/12 03:37 PM Maybe it is best that you are unruth. [Re: Rhubarb Commando]
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I dumped you because you were crude and uncouth
My aperient was your friend;
My apology for our end
I miss you darling like I miss an aching tooth.
SEMICONSCIOUS - SEPARATE
#205743 - 05/08/12 04:11 PM Joined: Nov 2011
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I live in a semiconscious haze.
I thought I’d found love
But you gave me the shove,
And I pass all my days in a daze
CRENEL - CRICKET
I'm immortal until proven otherwise
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