Re: Have you always dreamed of become a high payed consultant?

[Alistair Maclean <address@hidden>]

In article <3de4220a_1@Usenet.com>, Peter E. C. Dashwood <dashwood@nospa
m.enternet.co.nz> writes
>
>Just checked the spelling of Grammar (it's ok). My
>> OED doesn't list Grammer.
>>
>
>I think you'll find she's your Father or Mother's Mother...<G>

I asked for that one.

>
>> > There was a recent poll
>> >here in the UK (in fact, the final was last night) to find the
>> >Greatest Briton.
>>
>> Got it on the video. I'm glad that Winnie won. Shame that the rest were
>> (with the exception of Ollie Cromwell) charlatans, ne'er do wells or
>> born/married to their greatness.
>>
>
>Perhaps a little hard on Nelson, 
Committed suicide by wearing a uniform with medals which marked him out
to the snipers. An officer normally wore a plain coat and hat and not
their medals. Also a philanderer (one of my pet hates). Deserted his
wife and child.


>Darwin, 
Although he did formulate the theory of evolution something like 50
years before anybody else, he did not publish his theory until Wallace
(I think, and an Aussie) sent him a copy of a manuscript independently
formulating the same theory. Then Darwin published. Why give him the
credit when his work had not been in the public domain before Wallace
published his work?


>Brunel,
A builder of large and unused boats. And bridges. I wish I had seen
Jeremy Clarkson's documentary as that must have been a magnificent piece
of tv for Brunel to do so well.


> and Newton, 
As the credited inventor of Differential Calculus he had been beaten to
it by a Frenchman by at least 25 years. What Newton did do was to
conduct the first experiments using truly rigorous scientific methods. 

>don't you
>think, Alistair? (Agree about Diana, Elizabeth the First (although you have
>to admire her courage), and John Lennon (admire his ideals but still
>basically a ne'er-do-well <G>). Of course they missed the real British
>heroes who are loved by millions, Sooty, Basil Brush, TeleTubbies, Bob the
>Builder, Postman Pat, and Mr Blobby...

What about Pugh, Pugh, Barley, McGrew, Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub? Windy
Miller? Roobarb and Custard? Parsley? Muffin?...

>
>> > Shakespeare made it to the top 10 but it was
>> >painfully apparent in the debates that most kids are not being exposed
>> >to him, or, if they are, they are not being helped to appreciate the
>> >beauty and timelessness of his writing.
>>
>> I was tortured at school by having to do Romeo and Juliet, Merchant of
>> Venice, MacBeth (a clansman of mine) and Two Gentlemen From Verona. I
>> plan on self-abusing myself by doing Hamlet sometime, just so that I can
>> see how Guildenstern and Rosencrantz fit in. BTW, I love MacBeth, even
>> though the story is an English propaganda exercise (should that be
>> exercize?).
>>
>
>There is little opportunity for self abuse in Hamlet. Ophelia is a mournful
>cow who ends up drowning herself (not in the least erotic). I saw Diana Rigg
>naked as Lady MacBeth many years ago

Lucky beggar!

> on the West End stage and the image
>haunts me to this day. (For those of you who get re-runs of the original
>Avengers with Steed and Mrs Peel, she was Mrs Peel...I can assure you she
>was even more devastating without the leather outfit than she was with
>it...<G>) I believe that Nicole Kidman did the same role recently (but I
>might be confusing that with the Blue Room). Anyway, for my money, Lady
>MacBeth is the sexiest role in Shakespeare...
>
>Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are inserted into Hamlet for no apperent reason
>other than to make Hamlet look smart when juxtaposed against their
>stupidity...<G>

Have you seen the film Rosencrantz and Guildenstern? Well worth
watching.

>
>Pete.
>
>
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