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To: Kid Shelleen

I find it amusing that this insanely popular Socialist company (using Capitalistic venues to make the cash, mind you!) chose the name of ‘Starbuck’ when it means SO MUCH MORE than they could ever HOPE to stand for:

“Starbuck, the young chief mate of the Pequod, is a thoughtful and intellectual Quaker from Nantucket. He is married with a son. Such is his desire to return to them, that when nearly reaching the last leg of their quest for Moby Dick, he considers arresting or even killing Ahab with a loaded musket, and turning the ship back, straight for home. Starbuck is alone among the crew in objecting to Ahab’s quest, declaring it madness to want revenge on an animal, which lacks reason; such a desire is blasphemous to his Quaker religion.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Moby-Dick_characters#Mates


19 posted on 06/08/2018 6:08:32 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I LOVE that book.


24 posted on 06/08/2018 6:12:05 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I thought it was named after Starbuck the Viper Pilot on Battlestar Galactica. Oh frak!


65 posted on 06/08/2018 9:43:56 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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