FW: This is the most absurd position

George Thompson george.thompson at NYU.EDU
Fri Mar 30 22:41:30 UTC 2012


Just remember what Edgar says in King Lear: This is not the stupidest while
we can still say this is the stupidest.

Or words to that effect.  Sort of.

In short: there is always a tomorrow, and who know WTF it will bring.  I
can hardly wait, myself.

GAT

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Every few weeks I find myself saying or thinking, "This is the stupidest
> thing I've ever heard of!"
>
> What's wrong with me?  They can't *all* be the stupidest!
>
> JL
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> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:26 AM, David Barnhart <dbarnhart at highlands.com
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> > From: David Barnhart [mailto:dbarnhart at highlands.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:25 AM
> > To: 'Deakins, Alice'
> > Subject: This is the most absurd position
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> http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/28/new-york-city-schools-ban-loaded-wo
> > rds-from-tests/?hpt=hp_c2<
> http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/28/new-york-city-schools-ban-loaded-words-from-tests/?hpt=hp_c2
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> > Next they'll want to ban the words from textbooks.
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--
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

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