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Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2022 12:14 pm
by Colin B
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Giovanni Vincenzo Gravina - Italian man of letters and jurist.
He was born at Roggiano Gravina, a small town near Cosenza, in Calabria.
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I'm getting a strong feeling of
deja-vu........................................................ again.
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2022 12:14 pm
by Colin B
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Ronnie Shakes - born Ronald Michael Sakele - US stand up comedian who made seven appearances on the Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1984 to 1987.
Shakes died at age 40 of a heart attack while jogging.
February 21, 1947 – May 16, 1987_________________________________________________________________________________
Alas
Ronnie, your last two weeks came as a surprise in May...
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 12:37 pm
by Colin B
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Irma Kurtz - US-born UK-based writer & agony aunt.
She has worked in that capacity for Cosmopolitan magazine for over 40 years.
She lives in London's King’s Cross.
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Good advice,
Irma !
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2022 12:47 pm
by John
Colin B wrote:Quote of the Day - 23rd September:
Quote of the Day - 23rd Sept - 001.jpgIrma Kurtz.JPGIrma Kurtz - US-born UK-based writer & agony aunt.
She has worked in that capacity for Cosmopolitan magazine for over 40 years.
She lives in London's King’s Cross.
Born September 3, 1935
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Good advice, Irma !
As most of us probably know from experience.
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2022 12:43 pm
by Colin B
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I'm ignorant as to which
Bob Edwards said that...
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2022 1:08 pm
by Colin B
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Frank McKinney Hubbard [better known as Kin Hubbard] - US cartoonist, humorist, & journalist.
His most famous work was for "Abe Martin".
September 1, 1868 – December 26, 1930
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Introduced in The Indianapolis News in December 1904, the cartoon appeared six days a week on the back page of the News
for twenty-six years.
The Abe Martin cartoons went into national print syndication in 1910, eventually appearing in some two hundred U.S. newspapers.
Hubbard also originated & illustrated a once-a-week humor essay for the "Short Furrows" column in the Sunday edition of the News that went into syndication in 1911.
The self-taught artist & writer made more than eight thousand drawings for the Indianapolis News & wrote and illustrated about a thousand essays for the "Short Furrows" column.
His first published book was Collection of Indiana Lawmaker & Lobbyists (1903), followed by an annual series of Abe Martin-related books between 1906 and 1930, as well as other works such as Short Furrows (1912) and Book of Indiana (1929).
Humorist Will Rogers once declared that Hubbard was "America's greatest humorist".
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...and not just middle-aged...
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 1:17 pm
by Colin B
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But
Trump was
irrational, so what was his excuse ?
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2022 1:26 pm
by John
Colin B wrote:Quote of the Day - 28th September:
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But Trump was irrational, so what was his excuse ?
Madness, Narcissism, Sociopathy. He's a man with many defects.
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2022 12:42 pm
by Colin B
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I've got great neighbours...
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 12:44 pm
by Colin B
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Nora Dorothy Bernard - US Actor of the silent era.
She appeared in nearly 90 films between 1908 and 1956.
June 25, 1890 – December 15, 1955______________________________________________________________________________________
Fat lot of good it did...
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:21 pm
by John
Colin B wrote:Quote of the Day - 30th September:
Quote of the Day - 30th September - 001.jpgDorothy Bernard.jpgNora Dorothy Bernard - US Actor of the silent era.
She appeared in nearly 90 films between 1908 and 1956.
June 25, 1890 – December 15, 1955
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Fat lot of good it did...
She appeared in films after she died. What as?
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 2:59 pm
by Colin B
John wrote:She appeared in films after she died. What as?
When she died on 15th December, 1955, there was already a completed film & three TV series 'in the can' which all saw a release in 1956.
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Fri Sep 30, 2022 3:13 pm
by John
Colin B wrote:John wrote:She appeared in films after she died. What as?
When she died on 15th December, 1955, there was already a completed film & three TV series 'in the can' which all saw a release in 1956.
Maybe they should have clarified that with a "posthumously".
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2022 1:53 pm
by Colin B
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The phrase
'an honest politician' is something of an oxymoron, isn't it ?
Re: Quote of the Day
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2022 12:09 pm
by Colin B
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Lois McMaster Bujold - US speculative fiction writer.
She is an acclaimed writer, having won the Hugo Award for best novel four times.
Born - 2nd November, 1949.
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Her novella "The Mountains of Mourning" won both the Hugo Award & Nebula Award.
In the fantasy genre, The Curse of Chalion won the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature & was nominated for the 2002 World Fantasy Award for best novel, & both her fourth Hugo Award & second Nebula Award were for Paladin of Souls.
In 2011 she was awarded the Skylark Award.
She has won two Hugo Awards for Best Series, in 2017 for the Vorkosigan Saga & in 2018 for the World of the Five Gods.
The Science Fiction Writers of America named her its 36th SFWA Grand Master in 2019
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As
Charlie Drake's soldier used to say, confronted with a heavily-armed opponent:
"Just going to change my library book !"