Today's Final Jeopardy Clue:

[NancyGene]

Category: 19th Century Literature

"This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."

[W-Dockery]

NancyGene wrote:
>
> Category: 19th Century Literature

> "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."

Who was Edgar Allan Poe?

🙂

[Edward Rochester Esq.]

On Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 8:02:49 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote:
> Category: 19th Century Literature
>
> "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."

Who was 'Pickles'?

[Cujo DeSockpuppet]

NancyGene <nancygene...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:b087da4c-5bba-4a2d...@googlegroups.com:

> Category: 19th Century Literature
>
> "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird
> equally capable of speech."

Walter Lantz wrote books? Colour moi teh surprisedest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_IDGrKZ0Rs

<snicker>

[Ash Wurthing]

"Pious birds gather together to mourn the parrot's death"
~~Ovid

what's a few hundred centuries off in the grand scheme of
Time

[NancyGene]

Correct. Other acceptable answers are: Pickles, Edgar Allan Poland, John Dunne, Ovid, and Horatio Hornberger. We have a tie game.

The tie-breaker clue is: What acerbic Scottish poet/IT professional is currently MIA from AAPC?

[Ash Wurthing]

not an answer but a comment from the peanut gallery-- that's why he said I reminded him of someone from IT...

[HC]

On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 6:13:03 AM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote:

Robert Louis Stevenson?

[HC]

My bad. I read IT as TI, because I’m both stupid and dyslexic,
and immediately thought ‘Treasure Island’, which was written
by Robert Louis Stevenson, an often acerbic Scottish poet
whose talent is currently MIA from AAPC, because he’s dead.

[Cujo DeSockpuppet]

NancyGene <nancygene...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:34490f66-1a7a-460b...@googlegroups.com:

Who is Peter J. Ross?

PS: My backup answer is Martijn "Zorro" Benders.

[HC]

On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 6:50:28 AM UTC-4, Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:
> NancyGene <nancygene...@gmail.com> wrote in
> news:34490f66-1a7a-460b...@googlegroups.com:
> > On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 2:57:24 AM UTC, Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:
> >> NancyGene <nancygene...@gmail.com> wrote in
> >> news:b087da4c-5bba-4a2d...@googlegroups.com:
> >> > Category: 19th Century Literature
> >> >
> >> > "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird
> >> > equally capable of speech."
> >> Walter Lantz wrote books? Colour moi teh surprisedest.
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_IDGrKZ0Rs
> >>
> >> <snicker>
> > Correct. Other acceptable answers are: Pickles, Edgar Allan Poland,
> > John Dunne, Ovid, and Horatio Hornberger. We have a tie game.
> >
> > The tie-breaker clue is: What acerbic Scottish poet/IT professional
> > is currently MIA from AAPC?
> Who is Peter J. Ross?
>
> PS: My backup answer is Martijn "Zorro" Benders.

Damn. Great guess. I didn’t even think of him.

[NancyGene]

The correct answer is Martijn Benders. Other acceptable answers are: Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert the Bruce, Macbeth, Pickles, and Jamie Fraser.

[Will Dockery]

<Crickets>

So, what prize do I get for winning?

🙂

[Victor H.]

Coole....

https://bigthink.com/high-culture/originally-poe-envisioned-a-parrot-not-a-raven/

***************************************************************

Originally, Poe envisioned a parrot — not a raven


“Very naturally, a parrot, in the first instance, suggested itself, but was superseded forthwith by a Raven, as equally capable of speech, and infinitely more in keeping with the intended tone,” Poe explained in his piece in Graham’s. “I had now gone so far as the conception of a Raven — the bird of ill omen — monotonously repeating the one word, ‘Nevermore,’ at the conclusion of each stanza, in a poem of melancholy tone…” ---Edgar Allan Poe

*****************************************************************

[Will Dockery]

Good find.

🙂

[Michael Pendragon]

A passage from "The Philosophy of Composition" can hardly be considered a "find." Every writer should have studied this essay in detail.

Sources for Poe's "Raven" include both Charles Dickens' "Barnaby Rudge" (in which a talking raven named "Grip" appeared) and Dickens' pet raven (also named "Grip"); and John Locke’s "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding."

[Will Dockery]

On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 8:46:43 AM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 1:02:17 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 4:35:43 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > Will Dockery wrote:
> > >
> > > > NancyGene wrote:
> > > >>
> > > >> Category: 19th Century Literature
> > >
> > > >> "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."
> > >
> > > > Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
> > >
> > > > 🙂
> > > Coole....
> > >
> > > https://bigthink.com/high-culture/originally-poe-envisioned-a-parrot-not-a-raven/
> > >
> > > ***************************************************************
> > >
> > > Originally, Poe envisioned a parrot — not a raven
> > >
> > >
> > > “Very naturally, a parrot, in the first instance, suggested itself, but was superseded forthwith by a Raven, as equally capable of speech, and infinitely more in keeping with the intended tone,” Poe explained in his piece in Graham’s. “I had now gone so far as the conception of a Raven — the bird of ill omen — monotonously repeating the one word, ‘Nevermore,’ at the conclusion of each stanza, in a poem of melancholy tone…” ---Edgar Allan Poe
> > >
> > > *****************************************************************
> > Good find.
> A passage from "The Philosophy of Composition" can hardly be considered a "find." Every writer should have studied this essay in detail.

Apparently, they haven't, though.

🙂

[Michael Pendragon]

On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 9:27:57 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 8:46:43 AM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 1:02:17 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 4:35:43 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > Will Dockery wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > NancyGene wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Category: 19th Century Literature
> > > >
> > > > >> "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."
> > > >
> > > > > Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
> > > >
> > > > > 🙂
> > > > Coole....
> > > >
> > > > https://bigthink.com/high-culture/originally-poe-envisioned-a-parrot-not-a-raven/
> > > >
> > > > ***************************************************************
> > > >
> > > > Originally, Poe envisioned a parrot — not a raven
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > “Very naturally, a parrot, in the first instance, suggested itself, but was superseded forthwith by a Raven, as equally capable of speech, and infinitely more in keeping with the intended tone,” Poe explained in his piece in Graham’s. “I had now gone so far as the conception of a Raven — the bird of ill omen — monotonously repeating the one word, ‘Nevermore,’ at the conclusion of each stanza, in a poem of melancholy tone…” ---Edgar Allan Poe
> > > >
> > > > *****************************************************************
> > > Good find.
> > A passage from "The Philosophy of Composition" can hardly be considered a "find." Every writer should have studied this essay in detail.
> Apparently, they haven't, though.

Apparently you haven't.

Nuff said.

[Victor H.]

Yep....

[Rachel]

"good one, will." didn't think of that.

[Victor H.]

Hi there Ms. Rachel....!

[Ash Wurthing]

On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 8:46:43 AM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:

Why you waste time trying to enlighten them? If it didn't come from PPB, Wikipedia, the books of their Beat dawg gawds, Nat'l Lunpoon, MAD magazines, underground comix by amateurs, they wouldn't know or care to know about it. They are merely mindless minions to their pop culture idols.

[General-Zod]

On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 1:02:17 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:

>> > On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 4:35:43 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote:
>
>> > > >> Category: 19th Century Literature
>> > >
>> > > >> "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."
>> > >
>> > > > Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
>> > >
>> > > > 🙂
>> > > Coole....
>> > >
>> > > https://bigthink.com/high-culture/originally-poe-envisioned-a-parrot-not-a-raven/
>> > >
>> > > ***************************************************************
>> > >
>> > > Originally, Poe envisioned a parrot — not a raven

Exactly right....

[Will Dockery]

Next question is, what do I win?

🙂

[General-Zod]

Indeed, you nailed it....

[W-Dockery]

It was a bogus contest, typical of Nancy Gene.

[Michael Pendragon]

Aw... poor widdle Donkey thought he was going to win a prize.

Boo hoo.

Michael Pendragon
“If I wrote it, quote it, with proper attraction.”
-- Will Dockery

[Will Dockery]

On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 8:08:45 AM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, July 19, 2022 at 12:25:22 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > General-Zod wrote:
> >
> > > Will Dockery wrote:
> >
> > >> NancyGene wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>> Category: 19th Century Literature
> >
> > >>> "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."
> >
> > >> Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
> >
> > >> 🙂
> >
> > > Indeed, you nailed it....
> > It was a bogus contest, typical of Nancy Gene.
> Aw... poor widdle Donkey thought he was going to win a prize.
>
> Boo hoo.

It was a joke.

[Will Dockery]

I get a bit of deja vu reading the current threads about Nancy Gene and her bogus contests.

🙂

[Michael Pendragon]

Still butt-hurt that you didn't really win a prize, Donkey?

Boo-hoo.

[Will Dockery]

No, just making the point that the whole thing was bogus, as George Dance has also shown.

HTH and HAND.

[ME]

The only point you’re making here is that you and dance are acting like whiny little children.
HTH

[Will Dockery]

No, not really.

🙂

[Michael Pendragon]

Who else except whiny little children cry "Boo-hoo-hoo! I didn't det my pwize!"?

[Will Dockery]

Not the point, really.

🙂

[Michael Pendragon]

It's very much the point, Donkey. You've been whining and crying and throwing a tantrum that NancyGene's "Jeopardy" thread was "bogus" because nobody gave you a prize.

Could you possibly be any more immature (apart from taking a crap in your trousers)?

[Will Dockery]

Like I said:

> NancyGene wrote:
>>
>> Category: 19th Century Literature

>> "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."

> Who was Edgar Allan Poe?

HTH and HAND.

🙂

[Michael Pendragon]

What are you sniveling about, now, Donkey?

NancyGene posted a "Jeopardy" style question. You answered it.

It's just a fun game to play on Usenet.

It's not a real game show, and you don't win any prizes.

I know that you're hard up for waffles since Dave's disability check took a dirt nap, but no one is gong to send you a gift certificate to Waffle House.

Stop whining about it and move on.


Michael Pendragon
"I have not been to a Waffle House in months."
-- Will Dockery, discussing poetry.

[Will Dockery]

It was a joke, Pendragon.

Sorry it went over your head.

🙂

[HC]

Sniveling and whining are synonymous with joking in Donkeyland. They are one and the same thing.

[HC]

It was a snivel. It was a whine. It was a joke.
It was whatever. Words don’t matter in Donkeyland.

[Will Dockery]

On Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 8:10:18 PM UTC-4, I wrote:
> NancyGene wrote:
> >
> > Category: 19th Century Literature
>
> > "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."
> Who was Edgar Allan Poe?

Nope, it simply looks like I gave the correct answer in a bogus contest.

And so it goes.

🙂

[HC]

That’s a joke.

[NancyGene]

On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 11:13:45 AM UTC, NancyGene wrote:
> On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 10:55:50 AM UTC, HC wrote:
> > On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 6:50:28 AM UTC-4, Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:
> > > NancyGene <nancygene...@gmail.com> wrote in
> > > news:34490f66-1a7a-460b...@googlegroups.com:
> > > > On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 2:57:24 AM UTC, Cujo DeSockpuppet wrote:
> > > >> NancyGene <nancygene...@gmail.com> wrote in
> > > >> news:b087da4c-5bba-4a2d...@googlegroups.com:

> > > >> > Category: 19th Century Literature
> > > >> >
> > > >> > "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird
> > > >> > equally capable of speech."

> > > >> Walter Lantz wrote books? Colour moi teh surprisedest.
> > > >>
> > > >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_IDGrKZ0Rs
> > > >>
> > > >> <snicker>
> > > > Correct. Other acceptable answers are: Pickles, Edgar Allan Poland,
> > > > John Dunne, Ovid, and Horatio Hornberger. We have a tie game.
> > > >
> > > > The tie-breaker clue is: What acerbic Scottish poet/IT professional
> > > > is currently MIA from AAPC?
> > > Who is Peter J. Ross?
> > >
> > > PS: My backup answer is Martijn "Zorro" Benders.
> > Damn. Great guess. I didn’t even think of him.
> The correct answer is Martijn Benders. Other acceptable answers are: Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert the Bruce, Macbeth, Pickles, and Jamie Fraser.

Cujo won the contest, since we had to have a tie-breaker. He answered Martijn Benders, which was the correct answer to: "What acerbic Scottish poet/IT professional is currently MIA from AAPC?" Cujo won an all-expenses paid trip to Pickles' rest stop on the border between California and Oregon. Things to see there are an old bike and filing cabinets.

[HC]

Don’t forget the dead cat.

[Michael Pendragon]

Don't forget the mummified remains of a 29-year old cat.

[NancyGene]

HC and Michael, George Dance read in a Reader's Digest that the mummified cat upped and ran away upon the croaking of its master. We are asking Snopes to verify this claim.

[Ash Wurthing]

“Well, I've been to one world fair, a picnic, and a rodeo, and that's the (strangest) thing I ever heard come over a set of earphones.”
~~Maj. 'King' Kong, "Dr. Strangelove"

[Will Dockery]

On Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 8:10:18 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

> NancyGene wrote:
> >
> > Category: 19th Century Literature
>
> > "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."

> Who was Edgar Allan Poe?

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Except that I answered the question first, as the thread shows.

HTH and HAND.

🙂

[Ash Wurthing]

😭

[Michael Pendragon]

Donkey wanna cracker?

[HC]

Donkey is a cracker.

[NancyGene]

We see no evidence that the Donkey answered the question, let alone answered it first. We see that BPJ answered "Pickles," Cujo thought maybe "Walter Lantz," Ash guessed "Ovid," and other guesses were Edgar Allan Poland, John Dunne, and Horatio Hornberger. Cujo answered the tie-breaker correctly.

We are negotiating the prize for our next contest and are close to announcing that it will be an all-expenses paid skiing trip to DirtNap Dave Hill. (Ducky will take your picture at the bottom of the hill.)

[Will Dockery]

On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 3:59:17 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote:
> On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 7:50:32 PM UTC, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 3:43:17 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 8:10:18 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > NancyGene wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Category: 19th Century Literature
> > > >
> > > > > "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."
> > > > Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
> > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > >
> > > Except that I answered the question first, as the thread shows.
> > Donkey wanna cracker?
> We see no evidence that the Donkey answered the question, let alone answered it first

I noticed that you didn't seem to see my post.

🙂

[Cujo DeSockpuppet]

NancyGene <nancygene...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:1311f6a2-106f-4320...@googlegroups.com:

Thank you, I'll bring along my own cat. Mummified or not, a 45 year old
cat shouldn't bear the rigors too well.

[NancyGene]

There's bad ju-ju (Jew-Jew?) at that rest stop, so your cat might freak out. Keep your cat in a carrier at all times. You could play shoot the filing cabinets or Bury the Bike. Legend has it that Pickles' 4 ex-wives haunt the place too.

[Michael Pendragon]

Forrest Ackerman's ghost is reportedly there as well... searching for the suitcase full of monster memorabilia the late, unlamented Pickles stole from him.

[NancyGene]

Would all of Pickles' ghost kids be there too, along with his lawyer? Is the border between California and Oregon also known as the Canadian border?

[ME]

Pickle’s was a real hoot and a half..... even if he was a fraud!

[NancyGene]

And he was accepted and cherished by the Outcast crowd. Donkey bought his lies and plagiarism.

We assume that Pickles is actually dead--is there a reservation system for pissing on his grave?

[Cujo DeSockpuppet]

NancyGene <nancygene...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:66de5ce1-16bc-426a...@googlegroups.com:

I won't need a bike either. My tux follows me outside. I haven't taken
him all that far but he does follow me around in the cooler evenings.

[Cujo DeSockpuppet]

NancyGene <nancygene...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:76230219-f7f6-44f0...@googlegroups.com:

> On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 10:50:30 PM UTC,
> michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 6:11:40 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote:
>> > On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 9:43:28 PM UTC, Cujo DeSockpuppet
>> > wrote:
>
>> > > NancyGene <nancygene...@gmail.com> wrote in
>> > > news:1311f6a2-106f-4320...@googlegroups.com:
>> > > > On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 11:13:45 AM UTC, NancyGene wrote:
>> > > >> On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 10:55:50 AM UTC, HC wrote:
>> > > >> > On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 6:50:28 AM UTC-4, Cujo

How about the ghost groupies, wives and girlfriends? There had to be a
lot of stray knockoffs around Bob.

[Will Dockery]

More like 💯🙂

HTH and HAND.

[ME]

He doesn’t get the ‘cry me a river’ emoji ?

Your incessant crying and whining here has never gone unnoticed, will.

[Ash Wurthing]

☠️

[Ash Wurthing]

I'll pay the swilly hill billy a homage:

LoseNet lubber
We don't give a flyin' fuck
what you think of us
So cry me a river
cuz you couldn't deliver
'n I'll play you a fiddle
for your razed flummadiddles
So cry us a sorry ass serenade
while I crash your masquerade

[Will Dockery]

On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 9:50:27 PM UTC-4, ME wrote:

> On Monday, 22 August 2022 at 21:30:11 UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 3:49:33 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 3:43:17 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > On Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 8:10:18 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > > NancyGene wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Category: 19th Century Literature
> > > > >
> > > > > > "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."
> > > > > Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
> > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > >
> > > > Except that I answered the question first, as the thread shows.
> > > 😭
> He doesn’t get the ‘cry me a river’

Like I said, 💯 is more appropriate.

🙂

[ME]

So you 100% agree with ME that you’re crying like a little kid.

There’s no sense denying it Everyone has watched you and dance crying and carrying on about trivial BS here.

[Will Dockery]

On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 10:08:02 PM UTC-4, ME wrote:
> On Monday, 22 August 2022 at 21:59:57 UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 9:50:27 PM UTC-4, ME wrote:
> > > On Monday, 22 August 2022 at 21:30:11 UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 3:49:33 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > > > On Monday, August 22, 2022 at 3:43:17 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > > On Wednesday, June 22, 2022 at 8:10:18 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > > > > NancyGene wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Category: 19th Century Literature
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."
> > > > > > > Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
> > > > > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Except that I answered the question first, as the thread shows.
> > > > > 😭
> > > He doesn’t get the ‘cry me a river’
> > Like I said, 💯 is more appropriate.
> >
>
> So you 100% agree with ME

No, you're confused again.

🙂

[Michael Pendragon]

Sorry, Donkey. We've all watched you and (I'm sorry do say) George Dance crying and carrying on about trivial BS here.

[Will Dockery]

You and your fellow trolls, yes.

🙂

[Michael Pendragon]

Me and anyone who's been following the thread.

"NancyGene's contest is (sniff) bogus (sniff, sniff, sniff). I guessed Edgar Allen Poland (sniff) and she wouldn't even give me a prize! (Wah! Waah! Waaah! Waaaah! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!)"

[Will Dockery]

Like I said.

and anyone who's been following the thread.
>
> "NancyGene's contest is (sniff) bogus

Obviously.

And so it goes.

🙂

[Michael Pendragon]

No one expected you to think it was a real game show, Donkey.

And no one else who played expected to win a real prize.

I won't tell you to act like a man (that would be too much to expect), but could you at least attempt to comport yourself like an adolescent?

[HC]

Donkeys don’t understand comportment.

[Will Dockery]

I didn't.

🙂

[HC]

Words don’t matter to Donkeys in Donkeyland.

[Will Dockery]

On Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at 6:07:59 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 8:46:43 AM UTC-4, michaelmalef...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 1:02:17 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > > On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 4:35:43 PM UTC-4, vhug...@gmail.com wrote:

> > > > Will Dockery wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > NancyGene wrote:
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Category: 19th Century Literature
> > > >
> > > > >> "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."
> > > >
> > > > > Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
> > > >

> > > > > 🙂
> > > > Coole....
> > > >
> > > > https://bigthink.com/high-culture/originally-poe-envisioned-a-parrot-not-a-raven/
> > > >
> > > > ***************************************************************
> > > >
> > > > Originally, Poe envisioned a parrot — not a raven
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > “Very naturally, a parrot, in the first instance, suggested itself, but was superseded forthwith by a Raven, as equally capable of speech, and infinitely more in keeping with the intended tone,” Poe explained in his piece in Graham’s. “I had now gone so far as the conception of a Raven — the bird of ill omen — monotonously repeating the one word, ‘Nevermore,’ at the conclusion of each stanza, in a poem of melancholy tone…” ---Edgar Allan Poe
> > > >
> > > > *****************************************************************
> > > Good find.
> > A passage from "The Philosophy of Composition" can hardly be considered a "find." Every writer should have studied this essay in detail.
> >
> > Sources for Poe's "Raven" include both Charles Dickens' "Barnaby Rudge" (in which a talking raven named "Grip" appeared) and Dickens' pet raven (also named "Grip"); and John Locke’s "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding."
> Why you waste time trying to enlighten them? If it didn't come from PPB, Wikipedia, the books of their Beat dawg gawds, Nat'l Lunpoon, MAD magazines, underground comix by amateurs, they wouldn't know or care to know about it. They are merely mindless minions to their pop culture idols.

Says Ash, the Heavy Metal fanboy.

🙂

[HC]

Like I said, words don’t matter to Donkeys in Donkeyland.

[NancyGene]

It's easy to see why the Donkey didn't thrive in educational settings.

[HC]

Words like thrive don’t matter to Donkeys.
Donkeys don’t thrive. Donkeys barely get by.

[NancyGene]

According to Cujo, Donkeys always fail. That's what they have always done.

[HC]

I have no reason to doubt that.

[NancyGene]

On the Dockery family crest, it says "Nos Deficere" (we fail). The class motto for Carver High School is "Failure is the only option."

[Will Dockery]

On Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at 6:15:14 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
> On Friday, June 24, 2022 at 1:02:17 AM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:

> >> > On Thursday, June 23, 2022 at 4:35:43 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote:
> >
> >> > > >> Category: 19th Century Literature
> >> > >
> >> > > >> "This author first thought of a parrot before choosing another bird equally capable of speech."
> >> > >
> >> > > > Who was Edgar Allan Poe?
> >> > >
> >> >
> >> > > Coole....
> >> > >
> >> > > https://bigthink.com/high-culture/originally-poe-envisioned-a-parrot-not-a-raven/
> >> > >
> >> > > ***************************************************************
> >> > >
> >> > > Originally, Poe envisioned a parrot — not a raven

> Exactly right....

Fact is, it was the winning answer.

🙂

[HC]

Is that why he keeps responding to this thread?

[HC]

“winning”

[Ash Wurthing]

Did you just attempt to insult me? How precious!

[George J. Dance]

On 2022-08-23 10:05 a.m., Will Dockery wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 29, 2022 at 6:07:59 PM UTC-4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
>
> Says Ash, the Heavy Metal fanboy.
>

Says Ash, the Bernie Sanders fanboy.

[Will Dockery]

Says Ash, who knows all about comics.

[George J. Dance]

Says Ashy, who trusts all the media.

[Will Dockery]

Says Ash, who makes it up as he goes along.

[HC]

Your fanboys rave about you!

[George J. Dance]

Says Ash, who pretends to like HC's "poetry".

[Victor Hugo Fan]

On Tuesday, August 23, 2022 at 4:50:09 PM UTC-4, george...@yahoo.ca wrote:

Says Ash, the super slurping fanboy....

[Will Dockery]

Says Ash, who pretends he actually reads the posts before responding.

[George J. Dance]

Says Ash, the Silly Senetto fanboy.

[Victor Hugo Fan]

Says Ash, the thug wannabe fanboy....

[George J. Dance]

Says Ash, the Anthony Fauci fanboy