Posted on 12/02/2011 5:02:46 PM PST by OUTKAST
Herman Caine is no Bill Clinton; and neither is Newt Gingrich, for that matter.
Thanks, just say no more. Work has been very busy lately. I’ve not had the time to keep up the ping list.
I apologize to everyone here.
Go Herman! Keep fighting the good fight!
Through The Looking Glass is an extraordinary book to re-read as an adult. The full exchange between Alice and Humpty Dumpty is worth the price of the book. Just a sample of how that quote fits in:
'[A]nd that shows that there are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents '
'Certainly,' said Alice.
'And only one for birthday presents, you know. There's glory for you!'
'I don't know what you mean by "glory",' Alice said.
Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. 'Of course you don't till I tell you. I meant "there's a nice knock-down argument for you!"'
'But "glory" doesn't mean "a nice knock-down argument",' Alice objected.
'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master that's all.'
Alice was too much puzzled to say anything; so after a minute Humpty Dumpty began again.
'They've a temper, some of them particularly verbs: they're the proudest adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs however, I can manage the whole lot of them! Impenetrability! That's what I say!'
'Would you tell me please,' said Alice, 'what that means?'
'Now you talk like a reasonable child,' said Humpty Dumpty, looking very much pleased. 'I meant by "impenetrability" that we've had enough of that subject, and it would be just as well if you'd mention what you mean to do next, as I suppose you don't mean to stop here all the rest of your life.'
'That's a great deal to make one word mean,' Alice said in a thoughtful tone.
'When I make a word do a lot of work like that,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'I always pay it extra.'
It was on my nightstand...I was enjoying a revisit with it when it strangely disappeared.
You might check down the rabbit hole . . . or through the looking glass.
LOL...what probably happened is that it fell down behind the night stand...I just didn’t want to let anyone know what a *great* housekeeeper I am! SHHHH! don’t tell anyone!
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