tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post3468785712742780463..comments2023-10-31T14:36:59.054+00:00Comments on anticant's burrow: "AH DUNNO!" - 21st Marchanticanthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18135207107619114891noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-73276816975971503342007-03-23T09:43:00.000+00:002007-03-23T09:43:00.000+00:00God blessGod blesszola a social thinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14206983697656466653noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-82837671451501298962007-03-21T18:15:00.000+00:002007-03-21T18:15:00.000+00:00IN Aid of all this, Anticant, when I was a little ...IN Aid of all this, Anticant, when I was a little devil in Wool, three-years' old, I wandered off in the ruins of Bindon Abbey and got lost amid the rhododendrons. This was in 1952; and, when I re-visited the crime-scene in 1986, /no/ rhododendroms! This was dismaying & one of those /memento mori/, I reckon, as the lovely shaded spot is one of my earliest visual-remembrances....<BR/><BR/>'E Smith'Bodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-19341860292993432392007-03-21T18:10:00.000+00:002007-03-21T18:10:00.000+00:00AS To um..., aw, /knickers/, 'way South from here,...AS To um..., aw, /knickers/, 'way South from here, Miss'ssippi, my niece says useful stuff like: "Don't get yer panties in a WAD now!"<BR/><BR/>Wook, CC [/retd/] & Linguistic GeographerBodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-68779162313178549182007-03-21T15:25:00.000+00:002007-03-21T15:25:00.000+00:00DEAR Antimacassar, I don't know if this is the pla...DEAR Antimacassar, I don't know if this is the place, but I note that from time-to-time there is some ooh-ing & aah-in as to the 'special relationship' -- which was indeed real enough among certain american East Coast elites. Be that as it may [Linguistic-note, for American-speakers, this phrase is /English/, for "now I've got you!" -- BW], there have been /always/ countervailing tendencies and opinions, here; and, the divergence grows with the fact that America drew so many immigrants from non-English backgrounds esp after the american Civil War; and, to-day, from the hispanic, far asian & mahometan worlds. Following is my 'archive' of recorded history-broadcasts. If you have an 'audio' programme & should care to have an listen [Indeed, /an/ listen -- 'ell' /is/ a semi-vowel, /NB/! ES/BW], 'click' on the 'link' below, 'scroll down' to number five, the story of Pvt Glenn H Campbell. At:<BR/> <BR/>http://www.mnsu.edu/kmsufm/archives.html<BR/><BR/>THE Story of the Great War in these parts first threw into relief some distinctly diverging american ideas, about /England/; and, I think I document this anecdotally rather well as a matter of our local history here, in the Indian-haunted upper Middle West.<BR/><BR/>I See from your CV that you've done yeoman work on behalf of human rights. One of my sons is gay, and I love /him/ to pieces -- these /human/ facts are what make me, with my religious temperament, necessarily individual & personal, rather than dogmatic, fundamentalist, any sort of orthodogue -- /amin/.<BR/><BR/>B Wook 'abd al-'AbruBodwyn Wookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04152813177593209096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-634496984020324532.post-12659762325061704342007-03-21T14:00:00.000+00:002007-03-21T14:00:00.000+00:00Well, I can only hope that Ben has found his cloth...Well, I can only hope that Ben has found his clothes........<BR/>Not that I am objecting, you understand, just a shock to the system.<BR/>I blame the booze........Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com