Nope. They're in him.Joseph E. Smith wrote:So, um, Dubh.... are the pints on you?
A very brief discourse on brevity, wit and post counts.
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My dear friends,
I am overwhelmed by the kindness of your words and thank you all very, very much.
This Board is my only refuge from the cultural wasteland that I inhabit in the physical world and without it I would be a very lonely soul.
My working day has finished and I'm sitting here with a industrial sized glass of Jamesons and my guitar.To continue the Bob theme...."I hope that you can hear,hear me singing through these tears".
Love,
Dave.
I am overwhelmed by the kindness of your words and thank you all very, very much.
This Board is my only refuge from the cultural wasteland that I inhabit in the physical world and without it I would be a very lonely soul.
My working day has finished and I'm sitting here with a industrial sized glass of Jamesons and my guitar.To continue the Bob theme...."I hope that you can hear,hear me singing through these tears".
Love,
Dave.
And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
W.B.Yeats
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
W.B.Yeats
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Here's some Kleenex.
Thank you, dubh, for all the songs and reading ideas and answers to questions! You are my idea of a gentleman:
Modern usage
The word "gentleman" as an index of rank had already become of doubtful value before the great political and social changes of the 19th century gave to it a wider and essentially higher significance. The change is well illustrated in the definitions given in the successive editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In the 5th edition (1Sf 5) "a gentleman is one, who without any title, bears a coat of arms, or whose ancestors have been freemen". In the 7th edition (1845) it still implies a definite social status: "All above the rank of yeomen". In the 8th edition (1856) this is still its "most extended sense"; "in a more limited sense" it is defined in the same words as those quoted above from the 5th edition; but the writer adds, "By courtesy this title is generally accorded to all persons above the rank of common tradesmen when their manners are indicative of a certain amount of refinement and intelligence".
The Reform Act 1832 did its work; the "middle classes" came into their own; and the word "gentleman" came in common use to signify not a distinction of blood, but a distinction of position, education and manners.
The test is no longer good birth, or the right to bear arms, but the capacity to mingle on equal terms in good society.
In its best use, moreover, "gentleman" involves a certain superior standard of conduct, due, to quote the 8th edition once more, to "that self-respect and intellectual refinement which manifest themselves in unrestrained yet delicate manners". The word "gentle", originally implying a certain social status, had very early come to be associated with the standard of manners expected from that status. Thus by a sort of punning process the "gentleman" becomes a "gentle-man".
In Time Enough for Love, Robert Heinlein described being a gentlemen as part of the (slowly) emerging realization in the human consciousness of motives higher than simple self-service.
Thank you, dubh, for all the songs and reading ideas and answers to questions! You are my idea of a gentleman:
Modern usage
The word "gentleman" as an index of rank had already become of doubtful value before the great political and social changes of the 19th century gave to it a wider and essentially higher significance. The change is well illustrated in the definitions given in the successive editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica. In the 5th edition (1Sf 5) "a gentleman is one, who without any title, bears a coat of arms, or whose ancestors have been freemen". In the 7th edition (1845) it still implies a definite social status: "All above the rank of yeomen". In the 8th edition (1856) this is still its "most extended sense"; "in a more limited sense" it is defined in the same words as those quoted above from the 5th edition; but the writer adds, "By courtesy this title is generally accorded to all persons above the rank of common tradesmen when their manners are indicative of a certain amount of refinement and intelligence".
The Reform Act 1832 did its work; the "middle classes" came into their own; and the word "gentleman" came in common use to signify not a distinction of blood, but a distinction of position, education and manners.
The test is no longer good birth, or the right to bear arms, but the capacity to mingle on equal terms in good society.
In its best use, moreover, "gentleman" involves a certain superior standard of conduct, due, to quote the 8th edition once more, to "that self-respect and intellectual refinement which manifest themselves in unrestrained yet delicate manners". The word "gentle", originally implying a certain social status, had very early come to be associated with the standard of manners expected from that status. Thus by a sort of punning process the "gentleman" becomes a "gentle-man".
In Time Enough for Love, Robert Heinlein described being a gentlemen as part of the (slowly) emerging realization in the human consciousness of motives higher than simple self-service.
Diligentia maximum etiam mediocris ingeni subsidium. ~ Diligence is a very great help even to a mediocre intelligence.----Seneca
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Now, now. "Quantity" is a big plus, to be sure, but as I've always said, "It's not so much the pen but how you sign your name".amar wrote:nano, it's the quantity that counts, not the quality. but why am I telling you that?Nanohedron wrote:
(How's that for brevity?)
Fortunately for me I've never needed to test that theory.
"If you take music out of this world, you will have nothing but a ball of fire." - Balochi musician
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Letters count. You can't say, "Oh, yeah, baby," without them.Denny wrote:It's all starting to make sense...Nanohedron wrote:"It's not so much the pen but how you sign your name"
I've got my signature down to a couple of left leanin' swirls...
...maybe I should put some letters back in...
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