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#66488 04/21/02 11:37 PM
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The delusion of immortality, which finds expression in sky-high insurance rates for male drivers on both sides of the Atlantic, is a commonplace reference in the automobile industry in North America. Significantly, the EU study is a "crash risk" study.

It's unlikely insurance folk in North America would know much about county maps drawn in England in the 1570's, Maverick. History on this side of the Atlantic is decidedly Ameri-centric. We still think the Wright brothers were the first to fly.


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We still think the Wright brothers were the first to fly.

Do illuminate, plutarch? Thanks.

(I mean, obviously they were preceded by insects, and among humans, were preceded in the air by balloonists, gliders, etc. But I suspect you're talking about something beyond that.)


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It's unlikely insurance folk in North America would know much about county maps drawn in England in the 1570's, Maverick

d'oh! who cares? This was a quote from a UK magazine dealing with a European Community study. The point I am making is a linguistic one (it's a word board, remember?), and nothing to do with the detailed subject of the article, still less your assumptions about it.


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In the "7 stages" of life, he [Shakespeare] gives us the boy-warrior "seeking the bubble reputation even in the cannon's mouth".


What were the 7 stages of life? I didn't know this was something the Bard hashed out directly. I thought there was a psychologist, either Erikson or ______ [can't recall!], who cam eup with the theory on different stage sof life or life crises. Anybody out there care to educate me on this?


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As You Like It Act 2, Scene 7

http://makeashorterlink.com/?I57750CB

Nice thing about this site. It comments on the language and offers a link to a sound file reciting the passage in Elizabethan pronunciation. I found the comment on puke to be particularly interesting. Strictly from a linguistic point of view, of course. What did you think I meant?




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