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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by Sason on August 10, 2026, 04:06:47 pm »

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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by Sason on August 10, 2026, 04:06:31 pm »

Strands #890
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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by Sason on August 10, 2026, 04:06:17 pm »

Wordle 1 878 4/6

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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by serious crayons on August 10, 2026, 03:16:51 pm »

Wordle 1,878 4/6

🟩⬜🟩⬜⬜ SHIRT
⬜⬜🟨⬜🟩 DANCE
🟩🟨🟩🟨🟩 SPINE
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The Culture Tent / Re: What did you think of the Odyssey?

« Last post by serious crayons on August 10, 2026, 02:59:07 pm »

Good grief! Do they still exist? I presume they're all online and you have to subscribe (and pay a fee)?

Good questions! It's online, and it looks like you can get some info for free but for full access you'd have to pay $36 a year or $9 a month.

I used them when I had to read "Crime and Punishment" for a Russian history class. I simply did not have time to read a Russian novel.

I should have mentioned that when I read them (in old-fashioned paperback booklet form) with The Sound and the Fury and Hamlet it was pre-internet but I was well into adulthood so was not using them as a shortcut for a school assignment. I just wanted better understanding of the texts. With TSaTF especially I would have been really confused without good old Cliff. For Hamlet, it was more about deciphering Elizabethan English.

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The Culture Tent / Re: What did you think of the Odyssey?

« Last post by Jeff Wrangler on August 10, 2026, 11:43:34 am »

I've thought about reading The Odyssey, probably with the help of a Cliffsnotes.

Good grief! Do they still exist? I presume they're all online and you have to subscribe (and pay a fee)?

I used them when I had to read "Crime and Punishment" for a Russian history class. I simply did not have time to read a Russian novel.

By then I'd reached the conclusion that every professor assigned work on the assumption that you didn't have work to do for anyone else but them. 

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The Culture Tent / Re: What did you think of the Odyssey?

« Last post by Front-Ranger on August 10, 2026, 09:55:27 am »

I don't know what students do now...my grandchildren are either too young or are homeschooled. I helped my eldest grandson write essays for his college placement exams. They were just a couple of paragraphs, none more than one page. He has gotten pretty good at writing Google Docs and has me edit them. But often he rejects the edits. I use too much jargon, he says.

Back to the Odyssey, here's a gift opinion from the NYT about the deluge of criticism:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/opinion/odyssey-nolan-discourse.html?unlocked_article_code=1.4VA.Ofg6.KouLUB8jGlqk&smid=url-share

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BetterMost People / Re: Collections - What do you collect?

« Last post by Jeff Wrangler on August 09, 2026, 09:57:00 pm »

I never owned those books, I borrowed them at the library.

They need not be read in order, but when they are, notice that they follow the seasons in order.

One story will take place in the summer, then the next will take place in the fall, then the next will take place in the winter, then the next will take place in the spring, and then the next takes place in the summer again, beginning the sequence again.

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BetterMost People / Re: Collections - What do you collect?

« Last post by Sason on August 09, 2026, 06:07:31 pm »

I never owned those books, I borrowed them at the library.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Today's Wordle ------- spoilers alert!

« Last post by Sason on August 09, 2026, 05:58:04 pm »

Shuffalo, 3m 00s

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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/08/09