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There you go, hermano! I'll match you undergraduate degree with my BA in English Literature, and raise your Master's with a MS in Logistics and a MA in Business Management. OK, since we are talking (and speaking) English, you win. This is predictable, but beautiful. And I have seen just these, in a...

Pretty cute.

I have a tuxedo cat that looks like that little guy.
Sadly though, my cat is in heat and caterwauls at night.

The degree to which Cervantes was genuinely critical of chivalry, rather than merely making fun of the cliches of chivalric literature, is debated. In the first chapter, when describing Don Quixote's library, several real books are mentioned, which Cervantes himself had read. Cervantes quotes from ...

Good for you. I've had a copy of DQ sitting around since I was 18. I've started it about once a decade and never gotten past page two. Maybe the size and language are just too daunting. Your initial reaction is interesting. I cast one vote that you keep us posted. Thanks Highlander. I'll do that. I...

I've just started this book. In the prologue Cervantes is mocking notions of chivalry. Saying how this type of literature led to young men and women being more harmed than helped. Then he goes on to say how writing this prologue is actually harder than writing the actual story. He says he received a...

Doom wrote: ↑Sat Feb 14, 2026 12:36 pm

aussie_aussie_oi_oi wrote: ↑Fri Feb 13, 2026 5:03 pm I know, or know of, hundreds of parents looking after disabled children who have a greater virtue than Chesterton and other authors.

How could you possibly know something like that?

Agreed. That reads more like an axe to grind against the guy.

anawim wrote: ↑Fri Feb 20, 2026 12:36 pm

p.falk wrote: ↑Fri Feb 20, 2026 10:35 am
But the death nail

Death knell. Knell is the slow, methodical, tolling of a bell.

Much obliged!

Highlander wrote: ↑Fri Feb 20, 2026 12:00 pm

p.falk wrote: ↑Wed Feb 18, 2026 9:52 am The only rule: 4 seconds between pops.

3

3 seconds? You'll be farming a bunch of old maids.

Come on, live on the edge - add that second!

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen now has over six times as many posts as the Ladies' Room, each one more insightful and thought-provoking than the last. I was about to ask why I don't have rights to view this forum. But then I saw "extraordinary" and that took alittle wind out of my ...

I offer Gray: Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. One doesn't have to know to know. I love this poem. Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and dest...

The only rule: 4 seconds between pops.

The Danes (vikings) first recorded attack on England occurs at the monastery at Lindisfarne in 793. It's almost a century later, 878, when King Alfred baptizes Dane leader Guthrum in hopes of quelling the Scandinavian persistent desire for attacking the Saxons. It has its successes but it doesn't co...

During my freshman year in college someone, on the very first week of dorm life, put a bag of popcorn in the microwave for over 8 minutes. When it came out the bag just had this black slab of burnt popcorn all congealed together. He tossed it in the communal garbage room by the elevator and for that...

Doom wrote: ↑Mon Feb 16, 2026 3:53 pm Hmmm....I don't think "men talk more than women" is a good boast

There's a video where Sarah Mullally is actually fighting back tears as she says the word "microaggression", in the context of women in the CoE facing microaggressions. That degree of lachrymosity over such a silly concept...

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Fri Feb 13, 2026 6:23 pm Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!

Oh no you did'nt. When I read that title that song danced in my mind as well.

I'd be a bit leery of bringing a Waerwulf into my household. There seems to be a shift after William the Conqueror. Before the 11th. c. names in England were what we would think of as rather strange or odd. After that, names became more familiar: William, Edward, George, etc. Prior to the Norman Co...

I'd be a bit leery of bringing a Waerwulf into my household. :lol: There's another funny (by virtue of names and professions) bit of history. Cynewulf becomes king of Essex in the same year Offa becomes king of Mercia: 757. Cynewulf chases his predecessor, Sigeberht, into exile. But while in exile ...

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Tue Feb 10, 2026 10:17 am He's not from my diocese.

I legitimately laughed aloud.

King Alfred the Great, after working to restore the Dane-devastated city of London in 886, now aims to bring back learning and literacy to his kingdom. He surrounds himself first with 4 learned clergy: Werferth (bishop of Worcester), Plegmund (later becomes archbishop of Canterbury), Aethelstan (pri...