Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2006 23:21:57 -0800
Reply-To: Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET>
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From: Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET>
Subject: Re: Come out of the closet, all
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Oh, God, the language - is there anything more beautiful? This came out of a
mind. A mind more perfect than that which came up with the idea of aluminum
heads in an aircooled engine.
On 12/25/06 10:56 PM, "Sudhir Desai" <sudhir.desai@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> "To be or not to be, that is the question ‹
> Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
> The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
> Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
> And by opposing, end them. To die, to sleep ‹
> No more; and by a sleep to say we end
> The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
> That flesh is heir to ‹ 'tis a consummation
> Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep ‹
> To sleep, perchance to dream. Ay, there's the rub,
> For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
> When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
> Must give us pause. There's the respect
> That makes calamity of so long life,
> For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
> Th'oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely,
> The pangs of despised love, the law's delay,
> The insolence of office, and the spurns
> That patient merit of th'unworthy takes,
> When he himself might his quietus make
> With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
> To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
> But that the dread of something after death,
> The undiscovered country from whose bourn
> No traveller returns, puzzles the will,
> And makes us rather bear those ills we have
> Than fly to others that we know not of?
> Thus conscience does make cowards of us all,
> And thus the native hue of resolution
> Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought,
> And enterprises of great pitch and moment
> With this regard their currents turn awry,
> And lose the name of action."
>
> In short, no. ;)
> it just occurred to me. Shakespeare was a horrible grammaticist.
> good fight, good night.
> sudhir
>
> On 12/25/06, Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@mac.com> wrote:
>> ???
>>
>> Brady, do you think you're white?
>> Sudhir, how about you?
>> Ben T.? you?
>>
>> The short answer is, no.
>>
>> On Dec 25, 2006, at 9:21 PM, Edward Maglott wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking of demographics, is it only White people that own
>>> Vanagons? I've
>>> gone to events with 100-200 vans and seen only White people. East
>>> Coast, YMMV.
>>> Edward
>>
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