Speak roughly to your little boy,
And beat him when he sneezes:
He only does it to annoy,
Because he knows it teases.
--Lewis Carrol (1832-1898)
_Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_ [1865]
Beat your child once a day. If you don't know
why, he does.
--Chinese proverb
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
--Robert Burton (1577-1640)
_The Anatomy of Melancholy_ [1621-1651]
--
Al
This should be Lewis Carroll (pseud. of Charles L. Dodgson). The poem
is a parody of a well-known poem by G. W. Langford.
-:-
When by judgement one means knowing how something comes to be
what it is, the judgement must appear as re-constructing the
identical universe of the difference. Then every model
includes the measure of its own difference. No state of
equilibrium is empowered to remain identical, or to compel the
individual to alter (and integrate with it). The identical is
equal to itself, since it is different.
--Franco Spisani (1975)
--
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of
me."~King George V
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unprotected."~Robert Orben
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threatening him with it much more effective."~P.J. O'Rourke
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drink some chocolate milk, eat sugary cereal straight from the box, then run
around the house in my underwear screaming like a monkey."~Randy Glasbergen
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screwed."~from The Dilbert Future
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>"My father was frightened of his father, I was frightened of my father, and
>I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of
>me."~King George V
>
>"Never raise your hand to children; it leaves your midsection
>unprotected."~Robert Orben
>
>"Explain the concept of death very carefully to your child. This will make
>threatening him with it much more effective."~P.J. O'Rourke
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if
they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that
stage.
--Thomas Szasz, 1974
--
bruce
The dignified don't even enter in the game.
--The Jam
>> Speak roughly to your little boy,
>> And beat him when he sneezes:
>> He only does it to annoy,
>> Because he knows it teases.
>> --Lewis Carrol (1832-1898)
col...@monmouth.com corrected:
>This should be Lewis Carroll (pseud. of Charles L. Dodgson).
The Walt Disney Co. misspelled Carroll, too, in the main titles of
their animated ALICE IN WONDERLAND. I can't remember whether they
gave just one 'r' or just one 'l' or missed one of each, but at least
they pronounced 'slithy', 'gyre', and 'gimble' correctly (in the film,
that is; they screwed up the last two on the record album).
--
Seren
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all." -- John F. Kennedy
Oops. Mea culpa! That should teach me not to
post before finishing that first cup of coffee.
And all the time I thought I was merely seeing
double. Thank you, Colonel, for pointing that
typo out, and Seren, it's not always "i" before
"e," but I do beleive that error was intentional. <g>
--
Al
"An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won."
--Caroline Gascoigne
>Oops. Mea culpa! That should teach me not to
>post before finishing that first cup of coffee.
>And all the time I thought I was merely seeing
>double. Thank you, Colonel, for pointing that
>typo out, and Seren, it's not always "i" before
>"e," but I do beleive that error was intentional. <g>
Doh! <chuckle> It wasn't, but, as usual, I'll just blame it on my
American spell-checker. Damned thing doesn't even know how to spell
honour. :-)