Re: Now's our chance?
mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> Kevin Gowen <kgowen@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mar 2, 12:42 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>> Kevin Gowen <kgo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Feb 29, 11:09 pm, CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>>>>>> On Feb 28, 10:49 pm, mtfes...@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
>>>>>>> CL <flot...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>> One of the great tragedies of our time is the large group who mistake a
>>>>>>>> degree for education and a having a diploma from a school of a
>>>>>>>> particular name for intelligence.
>>>>>>> L Frank Baum had a good line on the phenomenon.
>>>>>> Better than Winston Churchill's?
>>>>> Just about any comment by L Frank Baum is better than one from someone
>>>>> more famous. But, his work is more classic American and must be viewed
>>>>> within the age in which he was writing. Knowing / understanding the
>>>>> Populist and Progressive Movements, and Free Silver, are a big plus.
>>>> This is the Churchill line I had in mind:
>>>> "It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of
>>>> quotations." - Sir Winston Churchill, My Early Life, 1930.
>>> Fascinating. What did he say about reading the work from which the
>>> quotation was derived, or did you not make it that far in your book
>>> of Churchill quotes?
>
>> You are comedy kryptonite.
>
> Thanks; allow me to point out that you are to intellectual discourse what
> squirrels are to quantum physics.
THIS POAST INSULTZ SQUIRRELS!
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CL
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