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Phil said that about his brother Don...(Everly):kiss:

All I Have to Do is Dream ....
I can make you mine,
Taste your lips of wine,
Any time, night or day.
Only trouble is,
Gee whizz
I'm dreaming my life away.
:kiss:

(LOL, bother: marking, ironing, reading this badly written account of Foucault zzzzz.)
 
All I Have to Do is Dream ....
I can make you mine,
Taste your lips of wine,
Any time, night or day.
Only trouble is,
Gee whizz
I'm dreaming my life away.
:kiss:

(LOL, bother: marking, ironing, reading this badly written account of Foucault zzzzz.)
Multi tasking again?? ha, you should read MY badly written account of Foucault.

"All that you dream
Comes through shining, silver linings...
Clouds, clouds change the scene.. "

Little Feat:kiss:
 
Multi tasking again?? ha, you should read MY badly written account of Foucault.

"All that you dream
Comes through shining, silver linings...
Clouds, clouds change the scene.. "

Little Feat:kiss:

Your badly written account of Foucault can only be a vast improvement on this one - which is unfortunately the text book I have to teach from :rolleyes:.

I read a passage once in an Agatha Christie novel about the many-splendoured beauty of the English sky, with its clouds and sun and sometimes rain; rainbows, different kind of clouds, grey, no blue, different kind of blue. I get it muddled up with the song, Love is a many-splendour'd thing, LOL.
:kiss:

It's a lovely day here today, as I attempt to focus on Foucault and simultaneously dig out clover from the lawn. And now I must take off my star-spangled apron and leap onto my cream-coloured pony, I mean bicycle, off on the school run. :kiss::kiss::kiss:
 
Your badly written account of Foucault can only be a vast improvement on this one - which is unfortunately the text book I have to teach from :rolleyes:.

I read a passage once in an Agatha Christie novel about the many-splendoured beauty of the English sky, with its clouds and sun and sometimes rain; rainbows, different kind of clouds, grey, no blue, different kind of blue. I get it muddled up with the song, Love is a many-splendour'd thing, LOL.
:kiss:

It's a lovely day here today, as I attempt to focus on Foucault and simultaneously dig out clover from the lawn. And now I must take off my star-spangled apron and leap onto my cream-coloured pony, I mean bicycle, off on the school run. :kiss::kiss::kiss:

Typical lol..so much to choose from.
Take your pick Michael..you'll need it in the salt mines..

I - I - I - Dig a Pony? (Beatles):kiss:

Death on the Nile (Aggie C):kiss:
 
Typical lol..so much to choose from.
Take your pick Michael..you'll need it in the salt mines..

I - I - I - Dig a Pony? (Beatles):kiss:

Death on the Nile (Aggie C):kiss:

My Little Pony (ick ick! all over the boudoir de pinkness! with their little manes flowing)

The Cecil Hotel in Alexandria. Mm, like to go back there properly one day.
:kiss:

OK, I am seriously gone now. See ... gone, with a last
:kiss:
 
My Little Pony (ick ick! all over the boudoir de pinkness! with their little manes flowing)

The Cecil Hotel in Alexandria. Mm, like to go back there properly one day.
:kiss:

OK, I am seriously gone now. See ... gone, with a last
:kiss:

Gone with the Wind ?
 

Oh darling, I was thinking of you because I hesitated whether to post a picture of Obelix climbing the sphinx and breaking her nose! I wish I'd done it now.


Beauty and the Beast.

It was the French who damaged the Sphinx. When in doubt, we Brits always blame the French. They return the compliment.

Did you know that after Napoleon's failed Egyptian campaign, the British confiscated all the archaeological finds made by French scientists who had accompanied Napoleon? Most of those scientists, rather than return to France without their finds, opted to go to England and continue their studies on what had been found.

Searching for the Yeti.
 
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It was the French who damaged the Sphinx. When in doubt, we Brits always blame the French. They return the compliment.

Did you know that after Napoleon's failed Egyptian campaign, the British confiscated all the archaeological finds made by French scientists who had accompanied Napoleon? Most of those scientists, rather than return to France without their finds, opted to go to England and continue their studies on what had been found.

Searching for the Yeti.

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We scholars are devoted to pure knowledge.

Well, some of us are and the line managers are devoted to effing us up, LOL.

Today I learned that everyone used to ride their horses on the left hand side of the road to keep their (right) sword arm free. Much of the world now drives on the wrong side, er, oh excuse me :eek:, I mean the right hand side of the road because Napoleon was left-handed. He made his armies march on the right hand side so that he would have his sword arm free if anyone attacked him.
 
Tintin_Cover_-_Tintin_in_Tibet.JPG


We scholars are devoted to pure knowledge.

Well, some of us are and the line managers are devoted to effing us up, LOL.

Today I learned that everyone used to ride their horses on the left hand side of the road to keep their (right) sword arm free. Much of the world now drives on the wrong side, er, oh excuse me :eek:, I mean the right hand side of the road because Napoleon was left-handed. He made his armies march on the right hand side so that he would have his sword arm free if anyone attacked him.

There is a castle in Scotland - Ferniehirst Castle - that has a left handed stair tower because the owners, the Kerrs, were predominately left-handed. It made the attackers' task more difficult because the attackers' swords were impeded by the masonry.
 
Your badly written account of Foucault can only be a vast improvement on this one - which is unfortunately the text book I have to teach from :rolleyes:.

It took a while to sink in, did this.
Why, I wonder does social sciences (or whatever they call it these days) expert get involved with a 19th Century physicist. ?
I mean, we've all Heard of the Foucault pendulum; (proves the earth actually rotates), but that's PHYSICS, not connected with social stuff.

what did I miss ?
 
It took a while to sink in, did this.
Why, I wonder does social sciences (or whatever they call it these days) expert get involved with a 19th Century physicist. ?
I mean, we've all Heard of the Foucault pendulum; (proves the earth actually rotates), but that's PHYSICS, not connected with social stuff.

what did I miss ?

LOL, you don't want to know! Queer Theory and all sorts, my dear. With Foucault in my back pocket I will prove that men and women are actually just performatives! Abracadabra! Woosh! You can interpellate yourself into any interesting new identity that appeals to you now. Oh no, whoops, interpellation is from Althusser, who introduced Foucault to the communist party. (Before he strangled his wife with a silk scarf, that is.)

I was thinking about the Sphinx and this rubber duck which we bought at the British Museum. I was just about to say it could be called a Sphu... when I recollected myself and said Dinx. LOL.

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LOL, you don't want to know! Queer Theory and all sorts, my dear. With Foucault in my back pocket I will prove that men and women are actually just performatives! Abracadabra! Woosh! You can interpellate yourself into any interesting new identity that appeals to you now. Oh no, whoops, interpellation is from Althusser, who introduced Foucault to the communist party. (Before he strangled his wife with a silk scarf, that is.)

I was thinking about the Sphinx and this rubber duck which we bought at the British Museum. I was just about to say it could be called a Sphu... when I recollected myself and said Dinx. LOL.

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There ya go with them Words again.
Performatives ?

Is this some kind of new-speak ?
 
There ya go with them Words again.
Performatives ?

Is this some kind of new-speak ?

Ah, the performative actually is quite easy to explain.

It comes from the work of the linguistic philosopher J.L. Austin. He realised that we use two different kinds of speech. Usually we use descriptive speech: "My Goodness it's late." "Put the kettle on, will you?" He calls these 'constatives'.

Occasionally we use a phrase which not only says something, it creates something. Examples include: "I bet you ..." (which brings a wager into being); "I do take this woman to be my lawful wedding wife." (brings a marriage into being); "I name this ship ..." Austin suggests these are not only speech but action: speech acts. He calls these 'performatives'.
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Yea,
'Noo-speek'


[thank you for the explanation; I haven't a clue when I'll be able to use this new word.]
<snigger>
 
Yea,
'Noo-speek'


[thank you for the explanation; I haven't a clue when I'll be able to use this new word.]
<snigger>

LOL, really?!! I use it all the time! "Darling," I say. "Just pick up a pack of performatives while you are passing the fishmongers!"

And speaking of fishmongers, now that Prosecco is on special offer at the Co-operative, I'm seriously contemplating doing that salmon poached in champagne recipe. I may have to buy a fish kettle to do it. And that will lead to the terrible dilemma:

Copper plated stainless steel fish kettle of great beauty and total MILFiness which will have to be specially ordered and cause a lot of fuss in the specialist kitchen shop.
Bog standard stainless steel fish kettle which is perfectly functional and loads cheaper.

Perhaps it would be more economical to wait until I have a proper bottle of champagne ....
 
LOL, really?!! I use it all the time! "Darling," I say. "Just pick up a pack of performatives while you are passing the fishmongers!"

And speaking of fishmongers, now that Prosecco is on special offer at the Co-operative, I'm seriously contemplating doing that salmon poached in champagne recipe. I may have to buy a fish kettle to do it. And that will lead to the terrible dilemma:

Copper plated stainless steel fish kettle of great beauty and total MILFiness which will have to be specially ordered and cause a lot of fuss in the specialist kitchen shop.
Bog standard stainless steel fish kettle which is perfectly functional and loads cheaper.

Perhaps it would be more economical to wait until I have a proper bottle of champagne ....

Did you say champaigne?
 
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