<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 16 April 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_wes.parish@paradise.net.nz" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Wesley Parish <<a href="mailto:wes.parish@paradise.net.nz">
wes.parish@paradise.net.nz</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Philosophy"
2007.04.15 (03) [D/E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> From: Jacqueline Bungenberg de Jong <</span><a style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:Dutchmatters@comcast.net">
Dutchmatters@comcast.net</a><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Subject: LL-L "Demographics" 2007.04.15
(02) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Wesley Parish wrote "Things which are impossible are equal to each
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> other." He managed to explain a joke that I thought very funny for the</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> longest</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> time, but never could explain. Here it is:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Q: Wat is het verschil tussen een dood vogeltje ? (What is the difference
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> between a dead bird?)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> A: Zijn ene pootje is even lang. (Its one leg is of equal length)</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Now, would somebody please explain what form of Philosophical Dialectics is</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> responsible for that conundrum,</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> Thanks Wesley. You made my day. Jacqueline</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">> ----------</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Thanks, Jacqueline. I'm glad you liked it.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I know the joke in a slightly different form, in English:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Q: What's the difference between a duck?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">A: One of its legs is both the same.</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">There were two other similar jokes, but I've forgotten them.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">(Mind you, the text that I extracted those quotes from, also had such</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
wonderful examples as:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Sailors do not like the sea when it is rough because it is very dangerous,
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">and then many lives have been lost and few of them found again."</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"He did not give a name to the picture, but called it "A unanimous picture of</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
an old lady". "</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"In some rocks there are to be found the fossil footprints of fish."
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Richard II was murdered in Pontefract Castle, but his fate is unknown."</span>
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Noah's wife was Joan of Arc."</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">A Shakespeare Quote:</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
"Seeking a bible reputation even in the canon's mouth."</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">And the following enlightening religious quote:
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"And having our loins girt about with the helmet of salvation.")</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Wesley Parish</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<snip></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">--</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">-----</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
warfare means up to their monkey tricks.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">of the foolish.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">-----</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">You ask, what is the most important thing?</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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From: </span><span id="_user_marless@gmx.de" style="color: rgb(121, 6, 25); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"M.-L. Lessing" <<a href="mailto:marless@gmx.de">marless@gmx.de</a>></span><span style="font-weight: normal; font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="lg">
</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Traditions" 2007.04.15 (05) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="q">
<div><font size="4">
<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;">
<div style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">
What is the square root of orange?
Turquoise.</span></font></div>
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<p><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">If 5 is
happy, what is 6? Disappointed.</span></font></p><span>
<p><font color="navy" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy;">Kevin
Caldwell</span></font></p></span><span>
</span></div></div></blockquote></font></div></span>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size="4">Kevin, I hope you understand German -- you'll like
these:</font></span></div>
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<div><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Alle
lieben das Flugzeug, doch das Hochgebirge fühlt sich von ihm verulkt. * <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Spatzen
sind die Kartoffeln unter den Vögeln. * </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Ein
Pfund Stille ist schwerer als ein Pfund Lärm. * <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Schwarz
ist mehr weiß als rot. * Das Fragezeichen ist ein Rufzeichen, das im
Zirkus auftritt. * <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Die
Zehen sind auf die Finger furchtbar neidisch. * <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wenn
das Alphabet die Hände hochnehmen soll, schickt es das H vor. * </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Aus
der Welt der Satzzeichen: Wenn runde Klammern zum Militär kommen, werden sie
eckig. Geschweifte Klammern gehen auf den Christopher Street Day. * <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Der
Punkt im Ausrufezeichen zieht immer den Kopf ein!
</span></span></span></span></span></span></font></div>
<div><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></font> </div>
<div><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Klar:
Hochdeutsch ist das Messer, der Dialekt der Löffel im Besteckkasten der
Sprache. </span></font></div>
<div><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></font> </div>
<div><font size="4"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Manche
Gedanken sind nur Gedunken. </span></font></div></blockquote>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size="4">From "Aus dem Nähkästchen", sometimes appearing on <a href="http://www.taz.de/" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://www.taz.de/</a>.</font></span></div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><font size="4">Hartlich! Marlou</font></span></div><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">