A moment of beauty

Started by Forty Rod, November 10, 2009, 02:05:29 PM

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Daniel Nighteyes

#40
November 13, 2009, 03:20:01 PM
Quote from: Delmonico on November 13, 2009, 03:01:26 PM
... read William Clark and Merriweather Lewis's journal's sometime.

Never mind them, read some of Thomas Jefferson's writings during the same period.  At that point in history, spelling hadn't exactly been standardized.

I think it was Mark Twain who once said, "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."

Delmonico

#41
November 13, 2009, 03:30:17 PM
Mark Twain was my kind of guy.  Also he often ate at Delmonico's when in NYC. ;D
Mongrel Historian


Always get the water for the coffee upstream from the herd.

Ab Ovo Usque ad Mala

The time has passed so quick, the years all run together now.

Leo Tanner

#42
November 13, 2009, 03:37:46 PM
One of the reasons I like comin here ta CAS City, it gives me a place ta intenshunly spell wrong.  Prolly the only place I can get away with it.
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

religio SENIOR est exordium of scientia : tamen fossor contemno sapientia quod instruction.

Forty Rod

#43
November 13, 2009, 03:45:51 PM
Quote from: Delmonico on November 13, 2009, 03:01:26 PM
Most highly intelligent folks are poor spellers, read William Clark and Merriweather Lewis's journal's sometime. ;D

BTW they liked roast goose also. ;D

I aim knot.
People like me are the reason people like you have the right to bitch about people like me.

Delmonico

#44
November 13, 2009, 03:53:09 PM
Quote from: Forty Rod on November 13, 2009, 03:45:51 PM
I aim knot.

But do you like roast goose, that's what's important here? ;D
Mongrel Historian


Always get the water for the coffee upstream from the herd.

Ab Ovo Usque ad Mala

The time has passed so quick, the years all run together now.

Leo Tanner

#45
November 13, 2009, 04:10:37 PM


I endorth gooth...ducks bruise like a grape.  Much better for a holliday feetht, them goothes.
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

religio SENIOR est exordium of scientia : tamen fossor contemno sapientia quod instruction.

J.D. Yellowhammer

#46
November 13, 2009, 04:22:20 PM
Watch as I tie together Daniel's technical editing, Leo's tendency to pontificate, and Forty's moment of goose beauty (Del, yer on yer own):

What if Mother Goose had tendencies and propensities toward verbosity and prolixity?

Jack becomes dexterous, Jack becomes able to attain high velocity, Jack forms a trajectory over the illuminating apparatus of ozocitereous structure.

Mary was formerly the owner and proprietor of a pygmy Ovis aries, It possessed an outer wool covering which had the characteristic pallidness much like that found in the appearance of crystalline precipitation, And to each point in space that Mary would venture to, The aforementioned Ovis aries would participate with a high degree of certainty.

Diminutive Jack Horner Was seated at the perpendicular conjunction of three planar surfaces, Ingesting his baked Yuletide pastry.
He inserted his opposable digit, And excavated a specimen of genus Prunus, And remarked, "What a benevolent adolescent I have become!"
Lunarian, n.  An inhabitant of the moon, as distinguished from Lunatic, one whom the moon inhabits. (Ambrose Bierce).  Which one are you?

Leo Tanner

#47
November 13, 2009, 04:34:10 PM
Hey, are you sayin that "I do go on"?  (use yer southern accent on that one). 

That whole thing was quite jockular, I enjoyed it immensley.
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

religio SENIOR est exordium of scientia : tamen fossor contemno sapientia quod instruction.

Leo Tanner

#48
November 13, 2009, 05:00:18 PM
Quote from: Leo Tanner on November 13, 2009, 04:34:10 PM
Hey, are you sayin that "I do go on"?  (use yer southern accent on that one). 

That whole thing was quite jockular, I enjoyed it immensley.

Oh, and post scrip, I do not pontificate, rather I extrapolate.  There is a difference.  I defer you to Oxford's tome of diction.
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

religio SENIOR est exordium of scientia : tamen fossor contemno sapientia quod instruction.

Daniel Nighteyes

#49
November 13, 2009, 05:10:22 PM











<-----------------  Simply, speechless  (a rare occasion indeed)

Leo Tanner

#50
November 13, 2009, 05:31:03 PM
That is a rarity for such an eloquant scribe.

Geese er perty when they's flyin.
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

religio SENIOR est exordium of scientia : tamen fossor contemno sapientia quod instruction.

Delmonico

#51
November 13, 2009, 05:58:45 PM
Quote from: Leo Tanner on November 13, 2009, 05:31:03 PM


Geese er perty when they's flyin.

They is purrter on a platter roasted to a turn.
Mongrel Historian


Always get the water for the coffee upstream from the herd.

Ab Ovo Usque ad Mala

The time has passed so quick, the years all run together now.

Leo Tanner

#52
November 13, 2009, 06:37:02 PM
Just didn't wnat 40's magic moment lost fer more than 4 er 5 posts.  It might offend the sensitive folks.
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

religio SENIOR est exordium of scientia : tamen fossor contemno sapientia quod instruction.

Delmonico

#53
November 13, 2009, 06:39:57 PM
Quote from: Leo Tanner on November 13, 2009, 06:37:02 PM
Just didn't wnat 40's magic moment lost fer more than 4 er 5 posts.  It might offend the sensitive folks.

Most sensitive folks offend me, wonder what would happen if they knew that, just might drive them on over the edge. ;D  "cause if they didn't give a damn it would mean they are not as sensitive as they try to put on to be. ::)
Mongrel Historian


Always get the water for the coffee upstream from the herd.

Ab Ovo Usque ad Mala

The time has passed so quick, the years all run together now.

Forty Rod

#54
November 13, 2009, 06:44:59 PM
Quote from: Leo Tanner on November 13, 2009, 05:00:18 PM
Oh, and post scrip, I do not pontificate, rather I extrapolate.  There is a difference.  I defer you to Oxford's tome of diction.

And you have black belts in bloviation and bombast.   :o   ::)
People like me are the reason people like you have the right to bitch about people like me.

Leo Tanner

#55
November 13, 2009, 06:56:49 PM
Quote from: Forty Rod on November 13, 2009, 06:44:59 PM
And you have black belts in bloviation and bombast.   :o   ::)

Magna cum laude.  I have the ovis aries epidermis on the wall ta prove it. :D
"When you have to shoot, shoot.  Don't talk."
     Tuco--The Good the Bad and the Ugly

"First comes smiles, then lies.  Last is gunfire."
     Roland Deschain

"Every man steps in the manure now an again, trick is not ta stick yer foot in yer mouth afterward"

religio SENIOR est exordium of scientia : tamen fossor contemno sapientia quod instruction.

Delmonico

#56
November 13, 2009, 07:05:04 PM
Ab Ovo Usque ad Mala


That's my motto.
Mongrel Historian


Always get the water for the coffee upstream from the herd.

Ab Ovo Usque ad Mala

The time has passed so quick, the years all run together now.

Delmonico

#58
November 14, 2009, 09:09:24 AM
Quote from: Daniel Nighteyes on November 13, 2009, 11:46:11 PM
Gesundheit!

Why would you say "God Bless You" in German for a Latin sayin' that can be translated a few ways includin' my usage, "Everything from soup to nuts."  Which of course could mean menudo and prairie oysters at the same offal meal. ::)

Mongrel Historian


Always get the water for the coffee upstream from the herd.

Ab Ovo Usque ad Mala

The time has passed so quick, the years all run together now.

Daniel Nighteyes

#59
November 14, 2009, 09:10:32 AM
Quote from: Delmonico on November 14, 2009, 09:09:24 AM
Why would you say "God Bless You" in German for a Latin sayin' that can be translated a few ways includin' my usage, "Everything from soup to nuts."  Which of course could mean menudo and prairie oysters at the same offal meal. ::)

If I have to explain it...
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