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The Mentor - July 15, 1915

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Posted by Firelock76 on Sunday, June 4, 2017 6:34 PM

Not this time, thank God!  The "Mistress of the Reader's Digest Word Power Quiz" would have given me unmitigated hell for a mispelling like that.

Mind you, she's fit to be tied when I BEAT her at "Word Power!"  Hee, hee, hee..

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Posted by Deggesty on Sunday, June 4, 2017 2:22 PM

Firelock76

Johnny, thanks for that warning about my "wandering 'I' !"

I knew it'd get me in trouble...

Wayne

 

Uh-huh--did Lady Firestorm catch you?Laugh

Johnny

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Posted by Firelock76 on Sunday, June 4, 2017 10:10 AM

Johnny, thanks for that warning about my "wandering 'I' !"

I knew it'd get me in trouble...

Wayne

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Posted by Deggesty on Saturday, June 3, 2017 8:33 PM

Firelock76

Thanks Wanswheel!  Don't you love that 1915 prose, almost musical and a piece of art in it's own right.

Sadly, it wouldn't work nowadays, anymore than Mozart on MTV would, but classy connosieurs (did I spell that correctly? Probably not) of the printed word who visit this site sure love it!

 

Using the spellchecker that comes with Wordperfect, I found the following: Connoisseurs.

When asked if he were a connoisseur, he replied, "No, I live in the middle of the block."Smile

Johnny

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Posted by Firelock76 on Saturday, June 3, 2017 8:21 PM

Thanks Wanswheel!  Don't you love that 1915 prose, almost musical and a piece of art in it's own right.

Sadly, it wouldn't work nowadays, anymore than Mozart on MTV would, but classy connosieurs (did I spell that correctly? Probably not) of the printed word who visit this site sure love it!

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Posted by Miningman on Saturday, June 3, 2017 2:53 PM

Great find and posting Wanswheel.

Think I will post this quote in the Geology Lab. 

" Our grand business, as a philosopher says, is not to grasp at the stars but to do faithfully life's common work as it comes".

Need more of that these days!

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The Mentor - July 15, 1915
Posted by wanswheel on Saturday, June 3, 2017 2:32 PM

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