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• 18 Jun ' 20:15

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      hippogriff said,

      Ottodesu: The phrase during the early ’50s was, “Indispensable in war, insufferable in peace.”
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• 18 Jun ' 13:44

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      HeatherLouWho said, about 6 hours ago

      @APersonOfInterest

      Yes. That is one of my pet peeves. Sigh.
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      phritzg said, about 6 hours ago

      Never was so much money owed by so many motorists to so few bureaucrats.
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      emptc12 said, about 2 hours ago

      @Ottodesu

      The first Shakespeare I read was “Julius Caesar,” with the phrase “the dogs of war”:
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      “And Caesar’s spirit, raging for revenge,
      With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
      Shall in these confines with a monarch’s voice
      Cry “Havoc!” and let slip the dogs of war,
      That this foul deed shall smell above the earth
      With carrion men, groaning for burial.”
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      Julius Caesar Act 3, scene 1, 270–275

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      At that time, Churchill’s funeral had just taken place, and it seemed to me he was a supreme national hero. I wouldn’t have thought he could be described as a “dog of war,” even now, but I suppose it’s a matter of opinion.
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      It might be you intend is to describe him as promoting military efforts in righteous causes that once having a served their way to victory continue past good purpose. As I understand it, Churchill was conceded to be a great wartime leader, but not suitable to lead in differing conditions post-war.
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      I’ve often thought the phrase also referred to looting and pillage by conquering armies, a traditional right of military forces for most of history – a bad thing in modern view as vicious and lawless. In The Iliad, for instance, this established custom is considered normal but often stupid in that soldiers are killed while leaving off battle to do it.
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      Another way to take that phrase is in regard to mercenaries, professional or otherwise, that fight and consult for pay in armies not their own, with the brutish and amoral effect of packs of wild dogs.
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      Yet another way is in comparing the way business interests find opportunities for profit from battleground slaughter and destruction, as do dogs and vultures. I’m reminded of the character Milo Minderbinder in CATCH-22.
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      Just some slinging thought Frisbees, here. Actually, I find the cartoon somewhat distasteful, and didn’t mean to comment at all until I read yours. I’m probably reading too much into this, and no offense intended.

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• 18 Jun ' 06:59

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     SusanSunshine said, about 5 hours ago

     Person of Interest and Edclectic….

     
     Yeah, it’s hard to say it “correctly” …..

     
     “Amount of fines” IS grammatically incorrect….
     but “number of fines” refers to how many fines were levied….

     
     Mr. Churchill may be referring to the amount of money… ie….

     
     “If you total all the fines I’ve levied in the past 60 minutes.”

     
     But “finest”?
     “Fining-est,” maybe.

     Sorry Dan…. it’s a “fine” pun but not a fine pun…
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     jreckard said, about 4 hours ago

     Never, never, never give up a good parking space.
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      Ottodesu said, about 3 hours ago

      @Nabuquduriuzhur

      Good to see that great speech in full.
      Very short, but it did the trick.
      Churchill was one of the “dogs of war”. In hindsight, it is obvious why he lost the first peacetime election.
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      edclectic said, about 3 hours ago

      @SusanSunshine

      As a former police investigator, I’ve always known to follow the money…but your analysis is just fine.

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• 18 Jun ' 00:57

  • June 18, 2013

  

  

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     simpsonfan2 about 2 hours ago

     Okay, what kind of a car is it? It seems familiar…

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     APersonOfInterest about 2 hours ago

     That should read " … number of fines I’ve written … " not “amount”

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     Chalkie  j    about 2 hours ago

     Fight, to the very Benz.

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     Winston is back.

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     Nabuquduriuzhur about 2 hours ago

     “What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their Finest Hour.’”

     —House of Commons, 18 June 1940, following the collapse of France. Many thought Britainwould follow.

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     ‘What gives, Officer? The sign said, ’Fine for parking!’

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     edclectic about 1 hour ago

     @APersonOfInterest

     Depends on one’s count…

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• 17 Jun ' 12:40

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      neckback said,

      This may very well rebound, stretch and unwind. But could be a water supply
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• 17 Jun ' 06:12

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     Radish said, about 5 hours ago

     “Right,” said Fred.
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     jreckard said, about 4 hours ago

     by Igor Fyodorovich Stravslinky.
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     SusanSunshine said, about 4 hours ago

     It’s performed when they shuffle off this mortal coil…
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     purpledog39 said, about 4 hours ago

     Remember me, my darling, when spring is in the air
     And bald headed birds are whispering everywhere
     They’ll soon be walking southward in their dirty underwear
     That’s Tennessee Birdwalk.
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      SusanSunshine said, about 4 hours ago

      Actually, this is also where they invented the sport of curling.
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      SusanSunshine said, about 4 hours ago

      In summer they come for the hot springs.
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      SusanSunshine said, about 4 hours ago

      Nice, jreckard.
      
      Couple of you others beat me to good puns too…. so of course I had nothing left to say……
      …..

      
      Radish… one of my all time favorite songs.
      Right Said Fred
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      pschearer said,

      Wow, so this work — so revolutionary and controversial, so strange and exciting — has seeped into our culture enough to reach the comics! But then, it already appeared in Disney’s “Fantasia” in 1940; if you have ever seen it you may remember the episode of the battle of the tyrannosaur and the stegosaurus.
      

      
      The famous riot at the 1913 premiere was as much for Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography as for Stravinsky’s powerful music. Some years ago the original performance was reconstructed by Millicent Hodson and performed by the Joffrey Ballet for a PBS “Dance in America” special titled “In Search of Nijinsky’s ‘Rite of Spring’”.
      

      
      You can find poor-quality off-air extracts of the show on YouTube and get a taste of how off-putting it was for the Parisian audience that expected dainty ballerinas in tutus but got shaggy prehistoric Russians stomping to Stravinsky’s fractured rhythms. And when I first saw the TV special I was as horrified as those Parisians must have been to see that the Chosen One is selected for her sacrificial dance by the other girls of the tribe. Powerful stuff.
      

      
      For fans of this sort of thing, I highly recommend the DVD “Stravinsky and the Ballets Russes” which includes (along with a reconstructed “Firebird”) the Nijinsky/Hodson version of “Rite” performed by the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra and Ballet, conducted by Valery (in Russia that’s a man’s name) Gergiev. A must for any other “Rite” fanatics out there.
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      emjaycee said,

      @pschearer

      Thank you for the DVD suggestion. Although I liked the animation in this section of Fantasia (the bursting mud bubbles were traced over bubbling coffee grounds), two things bothered me even at a young age: 1) Disney moved the musical sections of TROS around to fit the action (When Stravinsky protested, Disney pointed out he had failed to secure copyright in the US, and he [Disney] was gonna do what he pleased with the music), and 2) [CAPS ON] STEGOSAURUSAND T-REXDIDNOTEXIST IN THESAMEERA!! (Steggy was Late Jurassic, whilst Rexy was very Late Cretaceous). Okay, I’m good for now. Passing the soapbox to someone else.

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• 17 Jun ' 00:35

  • June 17, 2013

  

  

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     Oh, sure, it’s easy for Dan to draw the rite of spring, but what is his rendition of the wrong of spring? Hmmmmm…?.

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     beviek about 2 hours ago

     Time for a slinky commercial

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     Odd Dog about 1 hour ago

     Stonehenge’s lesser know’n cousin Springhenge.

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     @Odd Dog

     Soon to be Spinal Tap’s next release.

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     Dogsniff about 1 hour ago

     You have the rite to remain silent.

  

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• 16 Jun ' 14:59

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     StoicLion said, about 5 hours ago

     I laughed so hard with this one!

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