SamScribble
Yeah, still just a guru
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Geoffrey Rush
Watched 'The Best Offer' the other night. Could have been a tad shorter, but I enjoyed it.
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Geoffrey Rush
Watched 'The Best Offer' the other night. Could have been a tad shorter, but I enjoyed it.![]()
The arch pirate in opposition to Cpt Jack ?
Define normal![]()
Today he's a pirate. Twenty-nine years ago he was just Officer Tommy Hanson on 21 Jump Street.
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Forgive my ignorance but who are we talking about?
If I am guessing right, I'm pretty sure Johnny Depp.
The arch pirate in opposition to Cpt Jack ?
Forgive my ignorance but who are we talking about?
Well, I was referring to Barbossa, admirably played by Geoffrey Rush.
Also the movie - Shine
extra points if the next person associates that with the other idiot savant piano player, Leslie Lemke![]()
I must confess that I had to Google Mr Lemke.
Apart from being a pianist of some note (apparently), his Wikipedia entry could stand as a fine example of how not to write.![]()
Wiki has Lots of similar examples
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As does much of what you find in newspapers nowadays. Between misspelled words, horrible grammar, blatant factual errors, and just plain sloppy writing, you have to wonder if they bother teaching the basics in journalism schools anymore.
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Why worry about writing when the ability to read is lost... I spent 10 years as a school board trustee arguing with professional "educators" who didn't want to stifle students' "creativity." The director of secondary schools even informed me that if you tried to teach grammar and spelling, the young folk would lose their love of language! And reading? the "multiple strategies for decoding print" approach was the best, according to them: add some pictures to the text and let them guess what the words were.
But to a free association...which for me was an Anthropological classic we assign in Intro Anthro (and it is even used in some more enlightened high schools).
Body Ritual among the Nacirema (Horace Miner, 1956)
Why this association? The Head of a local university's "Learning Centre" criticized us for using it. She calculated the average number of syllables per word and the average number of words per sentence, applied her chart of reading levels, and found it could only be decoded (read?) by Post-Doctoral Scholars.
Luckily our first year juniour college students can all read at that level.![]()
Decoding? Send them all to Bletchley Park for a few days. They'll soon get the hell of it.![]()
Alan Turing.
Oh and yes Tio...one of my sociology lecturers in a tut introduced us to the Nacirema as well as the Latipsoh tribe (American Hospital for the uninformed). He read a selection and then started grinning as the 'penny dropped' among we students.
I once gave a guest lecture on the Anthropology of teeth to the dental hugiene students at my college. I was almost an hour into my description of the sacred virgins of the oral orifice among the Naidanac before a teacher caught on. The Naidanac inhabit a thin strip of land between the Algonquin, Dene, and Wakashan peoples to the North and the Nacirema to the South.
Touring Machine
Nice to see you again, Michael.
The first Turing (without the added 'o') machine I ever saw was made from a Meccano set. Brilliant!
Steampunk![]()

Have a hoity-toity affair to attend? Something like a Presidential inauguration or High Tea with the Queen? Maybe being inducted into the Writer Hall of Fame? Orgy at the country club? Anyplace where formal attire and a hat would be expected to make a grand entrance.
Make a true statement when you walk in with this live-action Steampunk top hat!
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Nice indeed, but these hats are awesome to wear, and perhaps less steamy...