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In the New Yorker...
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on April 06, 2017, 07:19:41 pm ---On Jeopardy! this evening: E.B. White said that The New Yorker used commas with the precision of knives in a circus act. ;D
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E.B. White was on Jeopardy?! Wow, that must have been some show! A rerun, maybe?
:laugh:
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: southendmd on April 02, 2017, 11:44:43 am ---Talk about disorienting!
Many European countries use some variation of the AZERTY keyboard (also QWERTZ). This is the French one:
I borrowed a friend's laptop once and was hopelessly confounded.
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I cqn understqnd why! I zould hqve been, too.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on April 07, 2017, 09:43:55 am ---E.B. White was on Jeopardy?! Wow, that must have been some show! A rerun, maybe?
:laugh:
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Yeah. He competed against James Thurber and Harold Ross. ... ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on April 06, 2017, 11:30:07 pm ---I enjoyed the article about Prince Charles in the latest issue. Some eye-opening revelations there.
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I read that one over supper last night. It reminded me of something I've thought of before. The author logically refers to the prince as being the future "Charles III." I wonder, though, if that is how he'll reign if he ever does reign. "Charles" is not an auspicious name for a king of England: The first one lost his head (literally) and the second one wasn't much better, although he did die in his bed. We know that Queen Victoria was named Alexandrina Victoria, but chose to reign as Victoria. The prince's name in full is Charles Philip Arthur George. If he gets to pick, I think he'd be much better advised to reign as "George VII." His grandfather was George VI, and I think you could say he had a successful reign, seeing England through World War II and all, and he and "the Queen Mum" were loved by the people. At any rate, he was much more successful than Charles I or Charles II.
The Queen is Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, Elizabeth for her "mum," Alexandra for her great-grandmother, and Mary for her grandmother.
Jeff Wrangler:
Over lunch today I finished "The God Pill" (April 3). This is another article that I find longer than necessary. I recommend skipping it.
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