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News Briefs 28-04-2011

Yo quiero saberlo hoy
si me quedo o me voy…

Many thanks to Greg & Kat

Quote of the Day:

“For all the weary souls grown bored with dreaming,
Whose thirst for Knowledge and for Beauty goes unslaked,
For all who long to wake from what is seeming,
And know what’s Real, and what is Real, to embrace”

Bill Hicks, Manifesto (fragment)

  1. The Big Bang . . .
    Looking at the first trailer the films looks like an amalgam of Raymond Chandler’s Farewell my Lovely and The Big Sleep with a SciFi theme tacked on. Antonio Banderas as Phillip Marlowe . . . hmmmmmm.

    1. Haven’t read those
      Haven’t read those, so I couldn’t say. But I think it’s interesting how Hollywood might start bringing more novel scientific principles to their plots.

      Maybe they finally run of ideas and called the nerds of their class 😉

    1. Please say it ain’t so!
      I fraking HATED typewriters, even if I was pretty fast with them.

      The worst was having when the government demanded that you presented your tax returns typewritten. of course, if 2012 does come to pass, I wouldn’t have to worry about that either 😉

      1. You Misunderstand!
        Red Pill,

        After 2012 and the first major war of the 21st century, we will return to Wooden Mechanical Typewriters, WMT’s! Wooden Mechanical Typewriters, WMT’s, don’t die. They just rot away.

  2. Will The Typewriter Sleep With Samuel Langhorn Clemmens?
    Who was Samuel Langhorn Clemmens {1835~1910}? He was born in Florida, Missouri and he was the first person to write a entire book using a typewriter. “The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer” was the name of the book that he wrote. Haley’s Comet was visible in the sky in 1835 and 1910 and, according popular legend, he was born and died when Haley’s Comet was visible in the sky. Many of us know him by his Pen Name.

    Who was he?

    A} George Elliot

    B} Mark Twain

    C} Boz

    Bonus Questions:

    1} Which of the above authors wrote “A Tale Of Two Cities”?

    2} Which of the above Pen Names is the Pen Name of a woman?

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