Teresa wrote:
> I’ve been looking into the current batch of GWB > jokes, and find that many of the jokes from
> which they’re drawn were originally about
> Stalin. But I digress.)
Fascinating! When you have time, please post something about this.
It's too bad that the Vatican won't officially acknowledge your move for another 350 years.
Is "jayriding" stealing a car so you can drive across the street in the middle of the block?
> Heard yesterday, from a car service
> driver: "He's bad with his punctuation,
> can't get to work on time."
Obviously it's a problem with his full stops.
> The word was "not." That unravelled the twist
> ending, and made the story meaningless.
A friend of my wife's with a tendency towards careless self-editing once dropped the word "not" from an email saying "We just learned that my mother does not have cancer."
Is Technorati down again? Seems like it's been several days since the last update.
Lenora,
I figured as much, but I'll cling to the hope that somewhere out there there's a culture that really does name people that way. I'd rather live in that world.
On the subject of Finnish last names, I just ran across this: http://teppo.tv/names/index.html
An ode to the joy and wonder that is sand:
http://www.otisfodder.com/365days/archive/196.html
In a comment at
Die Puny Humans, we find
some enlightenment:
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/003858.html
But she's also anticyclonic.
http://www.planearthsci.com/products/Hurricanes/tutorial%20pieces/Exercises/ExerciseTwo.html
I figured out how to create permanent URLs for at least those songs I posted above. If you take this:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ftvbib:@field(DOCID+7052a1)
and swap out 7052a1 with the catalog number used to name the mp3, you can link to any page in that section of the LOC. Something similar probably works for the rest of the site.
Here's the corrected URLs, if anyone's interested.
Buster Ezell, "Obey Your Ration Laws": http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ftvbib:@field(DOCID+7052a1)
Buster Ezell, "Roosevelt & Hitler (Strange Things Are Happening In This Land": http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ftvbib:@field(DOCID+7053a1)
Deacon Sam Jackson's "(If I Had My Way I'd) Tear Tokyo Down": http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ftvbib:@field(DOCID+7051b1)
While I was figuring that out, I ran across another of Buster's songs, in which either the original recording medium has either deteriorated so badly it's not playing at the right speed, or Buster's guitar is way, way out of tune - "Do Right By My Country": http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ftvbib:@field(DOCID+7046a1)
The Library of Congress site has an amazing amount of really great stuff on it.
I particularly like this: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/ndl.html (Here's my attempt at making that a live link, which I'm not sure if I know how to do in this commenting system: http://www.loc.gov/folklife/ndl.html)
Among other things, it's introduced me to the bluesman Buster Ezell; they've got a couple of tunes by him that are classic time-capsule outsider art.
Buster Ezell, "Obey Your Ration Laws": http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ftvbib:@field(DOCID+7052a1)
Buster Ezell, "Roosevelt & Hitler (Strange Things Are Happening In This Land" (featuring the priceless lyric "He's treating us so mean with his dreadful submarines."): http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ftvbib:79:./temp/~ammem_rnVF::
Similarly, there's Deacon Sam Jackson's belligerent anti-Japanese gospel song "(If I Had My Way I'd) Tear Tokyo Down":
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ftvbib:93:./temp/~ammem_rnVF::
In case those links don't work, all three of those are from "'Now What a Time': Blues, Gospel, and the Fort Valley Music Festivals, 1938-1943."
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