Search results

Gaiman first developed the character of Mr. Nancy for Anansi Boys, then borrowed him for American Gods, which happened to be published first. The books aren't connected in terms of story, tone, mood, or style, but they do share that character. kinda says something about a guy that he holds up...

I assumed that when you informed me that you had read the posts in question, you had actually read the posts in question, and that I didn't need to refer back to them. :dunno: Ever since Birdjag brought up Thomas Jefferson, I've pretty much been sticking to Thomas Jefferson. When I described...

I would love to know when you think I've ever assumed that kind of tone. The short version is that there was a lot of antislavery and abolitionist sentiment in the Atlantic world in Jefferson's time, that those activists actually managed to get a lot of stuff done in Britain, France, and...

They certainly are not. Your subsequent elucidation of your position, quoted below, is incorrect. I can't imagine how I can be clearer. I'm sorry, but I think that this is word salad and a very long way away from what the original topic was - or indeed anything else we've been talking about...

I completely disagree with your reading of the discussion, and I would like to point you to the posts on the previous page discussing "the context of his times". :)

I guess you should spend more time at your public library!

I first read the Tintin comics through the library at the Alabama school I attended in fourth and fifth grade. Alabama. Most public libraries in America, I would say, carry Tintin volumes. Many elementary and middle school libraries do, as well. It's Puschov, the counterfeiter ringleader from...

Birdjag, I'm sorry, but it's very difficult to discuss this with you when you seem to be talking about three different things as though they are interchangeable. Acknowledging that somebody did something in the past Believing that a thing done by somebody in the past was important Admiring...

I got mad late at night at @Birdjaguar and used some aggressive, denigrating words for the opinions he expressed. My tone was out of line, and I'm sorry for posting so disrespectfully.

sigh I don't have any inclination to dictate what you should admire. You can admire whomever you like. And if you admire Thomas Jefferson, that tells me that you think the ability to crib from John Locke is more worthy of remembrance than owning human beings, rape, eating Napoleon Bonaparte's...

ALSO his name is MIKE KELLY and he called himself an ANGLO-SAXON UOIUSADEOASDIFOP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_congressional_districts

I mean Unionism at the beginning, in the Home Rule Crisis, was all about destroying the Union in favor of some sort of delusional other thing

K A N S A I D O R I F T O

I think it's shameful that you think so poorly of your ancestors that you don't believe that any of them weren't hateful racists.

Cartograms often have trouble dealing with Alaska.

Yes. The remarkably unmotorized Wehrmacht actually demotorized over the course of the Great Patriotic War, shifting an ever-heavier burden onto the ubiquitous panje wagons as its reserves of trucks dwindled. Making rail transport serviceable again squared that circle and eased German logistics...

Also, sometimes, he forgets what sport it is.

I suppose you'll have to go to the Celts for quality orators. Like Gladstone...or Lloyd George...or Nye Bevan... Oh! Peel! He was unqualifiably English. Just think of comparing that thatch-haired idiot to Robert Freaking Peel.

That crassness led directly to one of my favorite accidental gaming moments a few years ago. A friend was playing through the DA games for the first time, and we sort of turned them into social events - everybody would hang out and we'd chat about the game as it was happening, we'd drink some...