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originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
originally posted by MLipton:
originally posted by VS:
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Really? Oh, my gosh, how did I miss that!!!
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I guess some jokes don't make it all the way to Norway...

(Wonderful idea, BTW - Trénet doing a Darin cover... 'Spliche splache, j'étais dans mon bain...')
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Or how about a Brian Eno cover? ('Spliche splache, j'étais ratissage dans l'argent comptant...')

With apologies to the Francophones here,
Mark Lipton
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I was raking in the cash? I guess.
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In one, Prof. The biology of purpose kept my head above the surface.

Mark Lipton
 
originally posted by Joe Dressner:
I don't think there is any dirt.

Their wines simple are not that good and there are much better options to choose from.

I'm curious about you saying they "tracked you down."

They didn't have to hire a private eye. You do have a web site and an active web presence.
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DRESSNER SIGHTING!!!
 
Purposeful biology doesn't distinguish between nouns and participles, I guess.

Also, if Louis XV (that's Louis Xavier Victor) can say L'Etat c'est moi, then the monkey can say Dressner is me.
 
That one is often misattributed to XIV. The closest version we have comes a couple of Louis later, when XVI, in one of the great blunders of the 18th C, stammered to his ungrateful cousin in a famous bed of justice: "c'est légal parce que je le veux !" Louis was broke -- it was 1787 -- and exploded his chances to get bailed out with that one-liner.
 
originally posted by Cliff:
Poor LouisThat one is often misattributed to XIV. The closest version we have comes a couple of Louis later, when XVI, in one of the great blunders of the 18th C, stammered to his ungrateful cousin in a famous bed of justice: "c'est légal parce que je le veux !" Louis was broke -- it was 1787 -- and exploded his chances to get bailed out with that one-liner.
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I cover myself in shame for misattributing an apocryphal quote, although logically, if Louis XIV didn't say it, than it is just as true to attribute it to Louis XV as to attribute it to Louis XIV.

Is it also true that Louis XV didn't say "Aprés moi, le déluge"? Next you're going to tell me that Goethe's dying words weren't "More light," but a banal request to open a shutter. You historians and your careless habits of accuracy will ruin everything.
 
originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
f Louis XIV didn't say it, than it is just as true to attribute it to Louis XV as to attribute it to Louis XIV.
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Logic will only get you so far. Common usage suggests more people pick XIV. But, as you say, they are equally true.

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
Is it also true that Louis XV didn't say "Aprés moi, le deluge"?
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I believe it was Mme de Pompadour. See Colin Jones, The Great Nation, p. 236 (here).

originally posted by Jonathan Loesberg:
You historians and your careless habits of accuracy will ruin everything.
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If I could make it up, I would have gone into a different line of work.
 
originally posted by Cliff:
See Colin Jones, The Great Nation.
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Colin Jones! I translated a piece by him called "Mouth and Teeth in the Encyclopedia" a number of years ago for a PUF collection on the 18th C. Seemed like an interesting chap. No one writes about the dental plates in Diderot and D'Alembert.
 
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