Level Extreme platform
Subscription
Corporate profile
Products & Services
Support
Legal
Français
Another Great Tennessen
Message
From
17/05/2007 13:47:45
 
 
To
17/05/2007 13:25:39
General information
Forum:
Politics
Category:
Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01225848
Message ID:
01226451
Views:
28
>>>>>>>http://www.breitbart.tv/?p=611
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>I hope HE can spell Tennessean!<g>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Wasn't Tennessen an English poet?
>>>>>
>>>>>You're thinking of Shelley Longfellow ...
>>>>>
>>>>>Tom Byron?
>>>>
>>>>Edgar Allan Popow?
>>>And so - why is a Popow like a writing desk ?
>>>
>>>( go ask Alice )
>>
>>When she's ten feet tall, or when she's just small? You think she'll know?
>>
>>Actually, it's "because there is a 'B' in both and an 'N' in neither." (Aldous Huxley)
>>
>>This is, of course, pretty much the answer to why anything is like anything else.
>
>( just realized I blew it - should have quoted straight "Why is a raven like a writing desk " )

I wondered about that, but then I just figured, "Well, it's his keyboard." But Huxley's answer is still good.

>
>Because Edger Allen Popow wrote on both of them. (probably more topical when Carroll did it <s> )
>
>( like the Huxley - hadn't heard that one )
Previous
Next
Reply
Map
View

Click here to load this message in the networking platform