December 2011
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The Starship Captain at the Breakfast Table
manners ”external behavior in social intercourse,” late 14c., pl. of manner.
Under bad manners, as under graver faults, lies very commonly an overestimate of our special individuality, as distinguished from our generic humanity. [Oliver W. Holmes, “The Professor at the Breakfast Table,” 1858]
(The Online Etymology Dictionary)
Look who’s talking, sir. Although...
Indiscreet jewelry!
French writers at this time also wrote erotica. One genre, which vies in oddness with the English “Merryland” productions, was inspired by the newly translated Arabian Nights and involved the transformation of people into objects which were in propinquity with or employed in sexual relationships: such as sofas, dildos and even bidets. The climax of this trend is represented in French...
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Erotopolis: the Present State of Bettyland
An early pioneer of the publication of erotic works in England was Edmund Curll (1675–1747) who published many of the Merryland books. These were a somewhat peculiar English genre of erotic fiction in which the female body (and sometimes the male) was described in terms of a landscape.[36] The earliest work in this genre seems to be Erotopolis: The Present State of Bettyland (1684) probably...
Speaking of Die Hard, can someone tell me ...
oliviawaite:
… how McClane knows not to give Gruber a gun with bullets the first time they meet? I’ve seen this movie fifty times, and I still can’t figure it out.
I have also pondered this! My conclusion is that I don’t think he DOES know. I think it’s a test. And he’s not losing much in the way of backup since the guy Gruber is pretending to be wouldn’t be super...
“Mischaracterized as a simple woman who chose not to stand because she had tired...”
– Rosa Parks, one of the most familiar yet least known civil rights icons (via robot-heart-politics)
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