Earworm

Look it up. ‘Snot as gross as it sounds. My earworm of the day is a beautiful tune. TYBB :o)  

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Ghost Town

By The Specials. If you’ve watched Father Ted (ROFL) this toon is very familiar :o)  

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Echo

Originally posted on Hidden History Research:
I have both Ovid’s Metamorphoses and The Romance of the Rose on my bookshelves. For some strange reason I’m feeling the need to read both again. Wikiknownothing article about the Goddess Echo. ? ? JW Waterhouse – Narcissus and Echo ? Love, love, love all the Pre-Raphaelite painters. Especially…

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All Over Now!

It’s been a while since Dolores Mary sang! Do you remember? Do you recall? Do you remember? ‘Cause I remember it all  

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The Scouse Alphabet

Harry Enfield and Chums Vibe. P.S. I have some wonderful Scouse mates :o)  

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Fast Forward through The Clouds

My apologies. I was going to go in-depth into The Clouds but real life got in the way. As per usual :o( Anyhoo – the sources are freely available to y’all to check. Here is the NC CONCLUSION about Aristophanes’ play THE CLOUDS   CONCLUSIONS. Apparently, in the drama of Aristophanes “Clouds” the gospel story […]

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Socrates

Socrates is the Single Most Important Character in Aristophanes’ play!   Socrates via SparkNotes   As mentioned earlier, the Socrates that Aristophanes presents is a composite of several current philosophers and sophists, such as Anaxagoras, Diogenes, Protagoras, Hippon, Korax, and Gorgias. Therefore, Socrates is as much of a “personification” as Just Argument and Unjust Argument. […]

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Strepsiades

Right now…Only Two characters from The Clouds are important. Strepsiades via Spark Notes   Strepsiades is the anti-hero of Aristophanes’s play. He is an older Athenian citizen and a farmer. He married a well-to-do girl with aristocratic pretensions and has a son, Pheidippides, who has inherited the young woman’s rarified tastes and has begun running […]

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My Head in “The Clouds.”

Way back – I posted this. Aristophanes – The Clouds I think it’s time to rewind and finish the story :o)   From SparkNotes : Character List   Strepsiades – An Athenian citizen and harried father, burdened by the debts his son, Pheidippides, has incurred. Strepsiades is the “hero” of the play, but he is not very […]

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The Norman Theory

There are plenty of sources out there “explaining” The Norman Theory. A Good Place to start is — Encyclopedia of Ukraine   I’ve covered bits of 1066 and all that here. Let’s see what NC has to say about The Norman Theory :   It should be abandoned the idea that the chronicle records that […]

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Times They Are A – Changing

Another take-it-or-leave-it post! Just a heads up. I’m no astrologer (!) but I kinda/sorta understand history. Very soon – Saturn conjuncts Pluto in Capricorn. The last time we were in this energy was during the American Revolution. Didn’t something Truly Major happen somewhere in 1775???? What Goes Around Comes Around, peeps :o) My love to […]

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