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>>its the french again..
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>>>>they "don't care what they *do*, actually, as long as they *pronounce* it properly" <s>>>>
>>>Henry Higgins =0)
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>>>~~Bonnie
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>>Told you I knew all the lyrics to musicals <g> ( as, obviously, do you )
>
>If I may . . . .
>
>Poor professor Higgins! Poor professor Higgins! Night and day he slaves away! Oh, poor Professor Higgins! All day long on his feet. Up and down until he's numb. Doesn't rest. Doesn't eat. Doesn't touch a crumb! Poor professor Higgins! Poor professor Higgins! On he plods against all odds . . . . .
But he's "an ordinary man,
who desires nothing more than just and ordinary chance to do exactly as he likes and do precisely want he wants.
An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, who wants to live his life,
free of strife,
doing whatever
he thinks is best - for him !"
<g> I always identified with Higgins.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
