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#34160 07/04/01 07:18 PM
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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?


#34166 07/05/01 01:30 PM
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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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