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Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Haven't you also already admitted somewhere on > this very board that you actually enjoyed a > Bulwer-Lytton novel, as well? Last Days of Pompeii, IIRC ... well, several decades ago!by Hermione - Paper Lens
Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thanks for the translation. Too bad he didn't say > in two sentences what he said in five -- maybe > that's how he stretched it into a book. Hmmm ... that's beginning to sound uncomfortably like the criticisms levelled at Tolkien ... (FWIW, I thought that the Johnson quote was both eloquentby Hermione - Paper Lens
Don Barone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hermione wrote:> > ... You conclude, then, that anyone described as > belonging to some form of organized religion (84#% > of the world's population) must necessarily > believe in Creationism or ID? > >Don wrote: > If you believe in 'god' then it stands to reason Yby Hermione - Laboratory
Don Barone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > there are not too many true religous people > who claim that 'god' was simply an inocent > bystander. You conclude, then, that anyone described as belonging to some form of organized religion (84#% of the world's population) must necessarily believe in Creationism or ID?by Hermione - Laboratory
Euw ... not very flattering of Hermione, is it ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
That background looks a bit like the Colosseum to me ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I can't make heads or tails > out of what it says. "Seeing as how so many different people in different places, who can have had nothing to do with one another, each have traditions about ghosts, spirits and phantoms, there must be something in it."by Hermione - Paper Lens
Apparently Johnson got into some kind of difficulty with camels somewhere in the text, can't remember the details now ... But I'm sure it was all attributable to the fact that he wrote it in only a week so's he could get enough money to pay his mother's funeral expenses.by Hermione - Paper Lens
Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why can't it be a fictionalized account? The Da > Vinci Code of its day? Plato's account of Atlantis, you mean? Well, yes, indeed ... (although I don't think there's all that much of a comparison between Plato and Dan Brown ... )by Hermione - Ancient History
Oh, sorry, Dave ... I misread what you'd typed ... I've never heard anything about a Thera theory before.by Hermione - Ancient History
Dave L Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Prof Mick Aston considered seriously Thera itself > linked to the myth rather than Crete. There have > been settlements excavated there that pre-date the > Bronza Age catastrophe. But had Mick Aston taken into account Peter James' objections, though?by Hermione - Ancient History
Lee Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Perhaps this will mark me forever, but I much > prefer "Rasselas."by Hermione - Paper Lens
Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > For instance, one clue was "musical females" and > the answer was -Rosemarie- .. and I have no idea > why. I think I put Rosymuses, and I knew that > didn't make sense but I had no idea what the clue > was after and still don't. When it's a question of clues like this, put a seby Hermione - Coffee Shop
Lee Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > IMy fundamental problem is that the > prose is turgid, largely undifferentiated (but > stylistically wildly inconsistent), full of purple > nonsense and what is sometimes known as “Wardour > Street English, ” a sort of pseudo-archaic English > used by historical novelists and bad translators, > oftby Hermione - Paper Lens
Anthony Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What does Atlantis have to do with the Minoan > culture? I suppose simply being aware that a > city/state could be swept away easily might give > rise to certain myths about OTHER city states > being swept away... the possibility became "real" > to the Greeks... but that's about theby Hermione - Ancient History
"Shall we ignore the ventilation shaft this time, and try and find another way to escape?"by Hermione - Paper Lens
Don Barone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Well if 84% believe in "God" then perhaps it is > safe to assume that the same percentage believe in > Intelligent Design. How does that follow?by Hermione - Laboratory
Don Barone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ... Just like nothing changes the FACT the we are > descended from ape like creatures. > > > It would seem that about 84% of the world would > disagree. But what connection does the pie-chart of world religions have with this statement?by Hermione - Laboratory
Oh, you're just such a spoilsport, Roxana ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
The amazing thing is that Philip Glenister was sweet and sensitive Captain Dobbin in "Vanity Fair", and the equally sweet and sensitive last husband of Anne Boleyn's sister in "The Other Boleyn Girl".by Hermione - Paper Lens
FWIW, Koumani is the name of a place in Greece, and also, apparently, an alternative spelling for (Ayatollah) Khomeini.by Hermione - Paper Lens
Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I meant to post something on Tony at one point > when I found something more WRT to his faddah's > castle, but I got sidetracked and never did. > Sorry. Apparently, Tony uttered this in the Son > of Ali Baba AND The Black Shield of Falworth !!! > It's not one or the other -- HE DID ITby Hermione - Paper Lens
Besides Tony Curtis as "Yondah lies da castle of my fadduh" (vide Paper Lens, passim), how about the one that (mercifully) got away - Ronald Reagan as Rick in "Casablanca"?by Hermione - Paper Lens
I've had "The Silmarillion" for nearly twenty years, but still never managed to plough through it ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
Waltham Forest Council has approved cuts that will see a dramatic reduction in the opening hours of both the William Morris Gallery & Vestry House Museum from April 2007. Anyone who doesn't want to see this happen, please sign the online petition.by Hermione - Humanities
So your description of the film would be: "Girl saves cat from freaky monster"?by Hermione - Paper Lens
I think the various questions in this sub-thread have now been thoroughly discussed, conclusive evidence having been produced to show that "Nubia" as the designation for Sudan was not used until the 19th century AD. The discussion should therefore now be considered as closed.by Hermione - Ancient History
Joanne Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do close-ups require warnings about the dangers of > going snow-blind? Could well do, actually ... > Or dare I suggest this style of acting was based > on the grimacing angst-style of Victor ("My > Master's robe!!!!") Mature. An early practitioner of the art, perhaps ...by Hermione - Paper Lens
I don't like Tennant, and I'm not very keen on Martha. It may be more to do with the director encouraging the "pull lots of faces and show off your dental work" style of acting, but I'm really not enthusiastic about it at all. The trouble with a lot of the Dr. Whos, from Tom Baker onwards, is that they've tended to seem rather manic. Jon Pertwee, now (sighs wistfuby Hermione - Paper Lens