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Post by jk on Aug 5, 2023 14:27:50 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Aug 9, 2023 4:35:27 GMT -5
"TALL RUMANIAN DENTIST, 23, seeks lanky/normal girl for sharing life when in England. Anything will do. – Box 391."
(Ad in an ancient (mid-70’s) New Musical Express found among my clippings while dusting)
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Post by jk on Nov 22, 2023 16:55:58 GMT -5
"It's amazing if anybody under 60 years old would even care about a list of 1970s albums. Suppose you, like me, were born in 1950, and when you were 20 years old, while wondering if your favorite groups like The Beatles and The Beach Boys were even still relevant, you ran across a list of the Greatest 500 Records of the 1910's."(boogieboarder, in the main BB section)
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Post by jk on Dec 9, 2023 6:36:36 GMT -5
"I was 19 at a big organ competition and getting feedback from a judge. He said I was good but needed to play more like a man. I asked what he meant, and he said 'play with more power and authority', and because I was young I went 'ok' and got on with playing. It was just an accepted thing to say because it is so male dominated, but I want to turn that on its head."(Anna Lapwood, hashtag #playlikeagirl)
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Post by jk on Jan 22, 2024 6:37:20 GMT -5
"Latin is a language As dead as dead can be It killed the Ancient Romans And now it's killing me."
(Inscribed in my Latin schoolbook by a previous owner -- not my opinion at all)
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Post by filledeplage on Jan 22, 2024 7:02:29 GMT -5
"Latin is a language As dead as dead can be It killed the Ancient Romans And now it's killing me."( Inscribed in my Latin schoolbook by a previous owner -- not my opinion at all) Hold your nose, dearie. Learn those declensions. It will pay off. Veni, vidi, vici. Or, semper ubi sub ubi. 😂
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Post by jk on Jan 22, 2024 9:09:59 GMT -5
"Latin is a language As dead as dead can be It killed the Ancient Romans And now it's killing me."( Inscribed in my Latin schoolbook by a previous owner -- not my opinion at all) Hold your nose, dearie. Learn those declensions. It will pay off. Veni, vidi, vici. Or, semper ubi sub ubi. 😂 That reminds me of a passage in Sellar & Yeatman's 1066 and All That: "Julius Cæsar was therefore compelled to invade Britain again the following year (54 B.C., not 56, owing to the peculiar Roman method of counting), and having defeated the Ancient Britons by unfair means, such as battering-rams, tortoises, hippocausts, centipedes, axes, and bundles, set the memorable Latin sentence, 'Veni, Vidi, Vici', which the Romans, who were all very well educated, construed correctly. The Britons, however, who of course still used the old pronunciation, understanding him to have called them 'Weeny, Weedy, and Weaky', lost heart and gave up the struggle, thinking that he had already divided them All into Three Parts." And yes -- always.
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Post by filledeplage on Jan 22, 2024 9:30:25 GMT -5
Hold your nose, dearie. Learn those declensions. It will pay off. Veni, vidi, vici. Or, semper ubi sub ubi. 😂 That reminds me of a passage in Sellar & Yeatman's 1066 and All That: "Julius Cæsar was therefore compelled to invade Britain again the following year (54 B.C., not 56, owing to the peculiar Roman method of counting), and having defeated the Ancient Britons by unfair means, such as battering-rams, tortoises, hippocausts, centipedes, axes, and bundles, set the memorable Latin sentence, 'Veni, Vidi, Vici', which the Romans, who were all very well educated, construed correctly. The Britons, however, who of course still used the old pronunciation, understanding him to have called them 'Weeny, Weedy, and Weaky', lost heart and gave up the struggle, thinking that he had already divided them All into Three Parts." And yes -- always. Never heard that version. The difference in pronunciation W as in weedy, (vidi) and V as in victory. We learned the V as in victory pronunciation. My kids who went to religious classical schools and took Latin, learned V as in victory, as well. The other kid who went to a non-religious, classical Latin school used W (weedy.)
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Post by jk on Jan 22, 2024 9:45:50 GMT -5
Never heard that version. The difference in pronunciation W as in weedy, (vidi) and V as in victory. We learned the V as in victory pronunciation. My kids who went to religious classical schools and took Latin, learned V as in victory, as well. The other kid who went to a non-religious, classical Latin school used W (weedy.) I can't for the life of me remember which pronunciation I learnt at my non-religious grammar school (where Greek was also taught in a subsequent year). That said, I was given this book in hospital by our local vicar while recovering from an operation. This was two years after I'd stopped having Latin classes, so surely I would have found weedy weird if we'd learnt the V-for-victory pronunciation...
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Post by jk on Jan 26, 2024 5:23:25 GMT -5
"Good!"
(Arnie Geller on "With Me Tonight" -- repeated by popular request on Beach Boys Talk earlier this week)
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Post by jk on Jan 26, 2024 17:29:19 GMT -5
"This music is the perfect accompaniment to a solo cough syrup party – oh, for the good old days, when the over-the-counter stuff had codeine and you didn't have to worry about getting put on some federal registry list if you bought two bottles at a time. I could go all limp, boneless and happy in a shopping cart, listening to this music – it's like someone is slowly revolving me and the ceiling tiles have never been so fascinating. I'm young again, listening to this music – my waist is small, my buns are firm and high, my teeth are pink, and I have hair."(Commenter Francis Perlmutter on Mall Music Muzak – Mall of 1974)
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Post by jk on Jan 29, 2024 16:33:16 GMT -5
"Alan is perhaps the greatest hero of them all when it comes to this band; he has devoted so much time and sacrificed so much of himself to protect, reveal, and preserve this great music. He has constantly faced supernumerary streams of music industry weirdness, Hollywood weirdness, weirdo musician types, and of course, our beloved ur-weirdos the Beach Boys themselves and is somehow still standing and still advocating for the music. This fellow deserves extraordinarily robust birthday wishes from those of us who owe him a lot (which is all of us). His love for the music per se is a tremendous force for good in a world where music is commoditized and where the people making the music get more attention than the music itself."(alanboyd getting extraordinarily robust birthday wishes from Joshilyn)
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Post by jk on Feb 14, 2024 16:36:42 GMT -5
"In some ways, I blame my lack of success in the music industry on Mahavishnu Orchestra. I wanted to do music like that, but nobody else was good enough to play it, so I never was able to form a group."(Joshilyn in pensive mood)
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Post by jk on Apr 18, 2024 5:40:44 GMT -5
"'Kokomo', 'Wouldn't It Be Nice', 'I Get Around' (5+4)"
(21 down in this week's crossword puzzle in our Dutch TV guide)
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Post by jk on Apr 23, 2024 12:35:43 GMT -5
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